Identifying Security Logics in the EU Policy Discourse

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 1-16Open Access

3. The Copenhagen School and Beyond. A Closer Look at Securitisation Theory

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 17-31Open Access

4. Securitisation as the Work of Framing

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 33-61Open Access

5. EU Migration-Security Continuum. Investigating Security Frames Before the “Migration Crisis”

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 63-91Open Access

6. Analysing Diagnosis and Evaluation of the “Migration Crisis” at the EU Level

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 93-129Open Access

7. Analysing the Conceptualisation of Remedial Actions Towards the “Migration Crisis” at the EU Level

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 131-191Open Access

8. Conclusions

   • Maciej Stępka

   Pages 193-204Open Access

This open access book investigates the complexity and the modalities of securitization of migration and border control at the EU level. It discusses and compares how different EU institutions and agencies have been deploying different logics of security, e.g. humanitarianism or management of risk, while framing increased migratory flows and so called migration crisis as a security problem. The book argues that the (re)development of EU migration and border control policies in response to increased migratory flows of 2015 have revealed an increasingly tangled nature of securitization of migration in the EU. This is reflected in the intertwining of security logics where migrants and human mobility tend to be securitized through different, sometimes multiple, interpretative lenses at different stages of policy framing. From a theoretical point of view, the book develops a fresh analytical perspective that further contributes to burgeoning discussion on securitization theory. By bridging the literature on policy framing and securitization it makes a significant contribution to the debates on both securitization and migration. As such this book is of great interest to students, academics, policy makers and all those working in the fields of EU politics, migration, security, and international relations.

• Open access
• Migration crisis in the EU
• Increased migratory movements in the EU
• Refugee crisis in the EU
• Immigration crisis in the EU
• Securitization theory
• Securitization of migration in the EU
• Migration and security in the EU
• EU security discourses
• Policy discourse on migration
• EU institutional discourses on migration
• EU border security
• EU migration policy
• EU security logics
• Migration and humanitarianism in the EU
• Human security and migration in the EU
• Migration and resilience in the EU
• Migration and risk management in the EU
• Policy and security framing
• EU institutions and securitization of migration

• Faculty of Political and International Studies, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland

  Maciej Stępka

Maciej Stępka is an Assistant Professor working in the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where he teaches courses on EU Institutions and Decision-Making Processes, European Integration Theories, EU Common Policies, Security Theory and European Security. He received his PhD in Security Studies with specialisation in International Relations from University of Warsaw. He also holds Masters degrees in Political Science (University of Amsterdam) and European Studies (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). Maciej’s research interests revolve around critical security and policy studies, including securitisation theory, Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, security logics and theories of risk. His most recent work concentrates on investigating spaces of security, security practices and technologies in the Polish immigrant detention centres.