Moors at the Coast! Securitizing Migration in Spain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783639027280)

After the signing of the Schengen Agreement in 1985 and the sub-sequent dismantling of the internal boarders among the EU member states, -Moors at the coast!- or the contemporary equivalents such as -flood- or -invasion- have become a part of a discourse, in which migration is constructed as a security threat. In the late 90s, the Copenhagen School suggested a framework to study security dis-courses, to identify the actors and the different elements of the se-curitizing grammar, and to understand how different issues become a security problem. However, this framework has never been tested and no case studies have been done to verify whether securitization indeed happens as suggested. Is securitizing grammar universal? Can everything be securitized? Can securitization happen if one or several of the components of the securitizing logic are not present? In this book, we will look at the case of migration in Spain to find these answers and see how and whether migration has been success-fully converted into a security problem. Students of IR should find this work intriguing as a constructivist approach to the study of migration in one of the EU countries.

Author: Renata Kiburyte
ISBN-10: 3639027280
ISBN-13: 9783639027280
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2008
Pages: 60
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d