Introduction
For more than a decade, security has become a relevant field of governments’ action with repercussions in several policy areas, including issues concerning immigration. This development concerns both policies of immigration, which regulate the admission of foreign citizens, and policies for migrants, namely the rules and procedures governing the conditions provided to resident migrants and their inclusion in society (see chapter “Migrants and Migration”). In this context, the so-called migration-security nexus refers to the process through which governments, facing increasing migratory flows, coupled with the transnational terrorist threat, economic slowdowns, and increasing sociodemographic pressures on the welfare system, have addressed immigration and the inclusion of migrants in society more and more as a security problem, rather than looking at these issues through other lenses, such as humanitarian, social, and economic perspectives. This approach leads to the...
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Carlà, A. (2019). Migration-Security Nexus. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_247-1
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