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Moons, Lotte (2018)

The Securitization of Migration in the European Union

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

This thesis deals with the current migration crisis that is dominating the political field in Europe today and how security has come to play a role in the response to manage the migrant influx. Since the September 11 attacks in the United States, migration has become increasingly interlinked with security, within particular the destabilizing effects of migration on internal European security. As a result of the growing sense of a nexus between migration and social disorder, the European political response has shifted more frequently towards the employment of the theory of securitization to manage migration at the external borders. Therefore, this thesis examines the European Union’s political legislation documents to provide an answer to the question; to what extent is migration defined as a security problem and how did that affect the migration discourse and migration policy of the European Union since 2015?

Author

Moons, Lotte

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Europe

Supervisors

Augusteijn, Joost

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en