Insecurities in EU border management
The unintended consequences of securitization processes in the Mediterranean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5943641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanda Amaro Dias (0000-0002-3238-9132, University of Coimbra), Maria Raquel Freire (0000-0003-2952-6017, University of Coimbra) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | methaodos revista de ciencias sociales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2340-8413 • E-ISSN: 2340-8413 |
| Publisher | Methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17502/mrcs.v10i2.561 |
| OpenAlex | W4307879439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
The goal of this article is to shed light on how securitization processes at the European Union (EU)'s southern borders - the Mediterranean - are feeding various insecurities both inside and outside the EU. We follow a sociological approach to securitization which revisits the work by Thierry Balzacq. By adding to the conceptualization of securitization processes as speech acts and the outcome of security practices, this approach contributes to understanding how specific responses to perceived security threats result from contextual dynamics and power relations between significant actors in the security field. The article lies at the convergence of the fields of Anthropology and International Relations adding to efforts to promote a critical reflection about processes of (in)securitization and emancipatory possibilities for social change. The article concludes that the insecurity narratives feeding border dynamics end up in a spiral of insecurity perceptions with implications for borders' management. The need to desecuritize policies and practices becomes, thus, part of the way to rethink possibilities for addressing the structural causes of violence and mass dislocation of people at the southern borders of the EU
Conceptualization · Economics · European union · International relations · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security
Security
Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Internal Rebordering in the European Union
Securitization as a Source of Insecurity
Communicating the ‘migrant’ other as risk
Crisis, Routine, Consolidation
Borders resurgent
Borders, technology and (im)mobility
Border management in the Mediterranean
Migrant rescue as organized hypocrisy
Interest groups and strategic constructivism
The securitisation of migration in the European Union
Exploring the Critical Potential of the Borderscapes Concept
Securitization and Risk at the EU Border
Security and Immigration
The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
EU Border technologies and the co-production of security 'problems' and 'solutions
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |