The Politics of Insecurity

Huysmans, Jef

doi:10.4324/9780203008690

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“…As Huysmans (2006) has pointed out, this process is a combination of appeals to various threats -including climate change -and the result of a struggle between different security experts and agencies that strive to extend their mandate and frame an issue as requiring more surveillance and policing. This contributes to making the representation of threat self-evident but more difficult to contest since it is silent and it is not built around a specific threat or referent objects but weaves together several issues as security problems.…”

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“…The development of such forms of governance would be quite relevant, given the role of the EU in both migration and environmental policy and its emphasis on non-traditional instruments to ensure security. At the same time, critics have warned about the problems associated with framing climateinduced migration, and migration more generally, as security issues (Huysmans 2006;Hartmann 2010).…”

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Linking climate-induced migration and security within the EU: insights from the securitization debate

Trombetta

2014

Critical Studies on Security

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Linking climate-induced migration and security within the EU: insights from the securitization debate

Trombetta

2014

Critical Studies on Security

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“…Recent research on the spatial convergence and rescaling of internal and external security practices in the European Union, around precisely immigration enforcement, offers some important signposts (Bigo 2002;Samers 2004;Walters 2006). This literature is striking insofar as state security practice is understood not as a foreign policy problematic but as a multitude of quotidian techniques for governing immigrants across a variety of public and private sites and through means not typically thought of as geopolitical (Huysmans 2006).…”

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What Counts as the Politics and Practice of Security, and Where? Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity after 9/11

Coleman

2009

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…69 Hence, as Huymans argues, the central vehicle of danger*the enemy*is not the immigrant but the terrorist within the framework of (securitisation of) immigration. 70 However, the external nature of the threat and the 'other' nature of the immigrants and asylum seekers are linked in such a way as to construct Europe as a sphere of peace while the southern side of the Mediterranean sea is located outside this sphere.…”

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Constructing the Mediterranean in the Face of New Threats: Are the EU's Words Really New?

Korkmaz

2008

European Security

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Since the end of the Cold War, the discourses and practices of the EU towards the Mediterranean have emerged as an important area of study with regard to attempting to explain and analyse how Europe and the Mediterranean are reconstructed. This mutual reconstruction of two selves in the so-called Mediterranean relationship appears as a new type of praxis, a broadened self, following the model of European success in forming a regional security community. However, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Mediterranean idea has been constructed by exploiting the new threats facing the West and Europeans. In this paper it is assumed that the discourse and practice of the EU in constructing the Mediterranean self can be seen as an extension of long-standing European policies of constructing Europe as an area of security. In the light of this evaluation, this paper focuses on the threat perceptions of the EU, the related power asymmetries in the Mediterranean relationship and the enduring asymmetry in the perception of the European and Mediterranean self in the face of 'new' insecurities.'We are who we are'; since the 1980s, the old Biblical idiom has been questioned by some IR scholars 1 by taking the definition, nature and constituents of 'threats' into consideration. This intellectual effort coincided with the broadening and deepening of the meaning of security within the field of security studies. In this vision, threats, dangers or insecurities are assumed to be 'the products of processes of identity construction in which the self and other, or multiple others, are constituted'. 2 Hence, as Connolly points out, just after the construction of 'difference' between self and other, the self is threatened not by the action of the other but by the 'visibility of its mode of being as other'. 3 Therefore, 'threats' are storytellers of the relations through which the collective self and power hierarchies between self and other emerge.

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The Politics of Insecurity

Cited by 941 publications

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Linking climate-induced migration and security within the EU: insights from the securitization debate

Linking climate-induced migration and security within the EU: insights from the securitization debate

What Counts as the Politics and Practice of Security, and Where? Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity after 9/11

Constructing the Mediterranean in the Face of New Threats: Are the EU's Words Really New?

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