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Securitizing Immigration

Part of the Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230244955

ISBN: 978-1-349-29917-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 28, 2015

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Introduction

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 1 –15

[This book seeks to account for the developments whereby immigrants into the EU have acquired the politically salient status of ‘risky’ and ‘dangerous’ when only a few decades ago they were considered a peripheral question to the project of European integration. It asks how it is possible that...
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Immigration and The Emergence of a European Threat Environment

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 16 –45

[The securitization of immigration should be considered in relation to the emergence and development of a distinct European threat environment and a discussion of how this environment has contributed to the institutionalization of immigration as a security issue. This chapter investigates the...
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The Maastricht Treaty: The Formalization of the Immigration/Security Nexus

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 46 –64

[So far, this story has stressed the significance of the enunciations of security professionals for the creation of immigration as a security problem. In this chapter, I consider in which ways the 1992 Maastricht Treaty has impacted upon the representation of immigration as part of a European...
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Amsterdam and Beyond: Immigration and the Establishment of an AFSJ

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 65 –97

[The Maastricht Treaty formalized internal security cooperation by bringing it within the institutional structure of the European Union. At the same time, however, the Maastricht Treaty also made clear that the JHA procedures would need to be readdressed in the 1996 IGC of Amsterdam. This chapter...
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Freedom, Mobility and Abjection: The Management of Immigration Risk in the AFSJ

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 98 –124

[The securing of freedom in the EU functions in ways that complicates and disturbs the dominant understanding of security as an exceptional practice bound-up with the sovereign protection of territoriality and centralized authority. Rather than functioning through juridical prohibition and...
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Unmaking Security, Remaking Belonging

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 125 –140

[Previous chapters have unmasked security as a deficient and ineffective policy paradigm with pernicious political effects. They largely supported the view that security has a poor problem-solving record which, ironically, may well have contributed to the conditions they sought to end — for...
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Conclusion: The EU as an Area of Security, Security and … Security

van Munster, Rens

Pages: 141 –146

[The security policies underpinning the AFSJ rest on shaky assumptions. They lack democratic accountability, judicial legitimacy and are largely ineffective in bringing about a Union closer to its citizens. Complex divisions of competences continue to exist between the different pillars,...

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