Globalization, migration, and new challenges to governance.
Description: Perhaps in no other arena is countries lack of effective control over borders and national access so striking as in the realm of international migration.
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States, knowledge and narrative of migration: The construction of migration in European policy-making.
While debates on migration policy often revolve around rival values and interests, they also invoke knowledge claims about the causes, dynamics and impacts of migration. Such claims are best conceptualised as policy narratives, setting out beliefs about policy problems and appropriate interventions. Narratives are likely to be more successful where they meet three criteria: they … Continue reading States, knowledge and narrative of migration: The construction of migration in European policy-making.
Migration control and narratives of steering
The dynamics of migration are incredibly complex, creating immense problems for governments attempting to steer immigration. These challenges are well elucidated in literature on societal steering, and especially Luhmann’s analysis of the impediments to steering by the political and legal systems. Politics and the law develop highly simplifying models of the dynamics they are seeking … Continue reading Migration control and narratives of steering
Terror, insecurity and liberty: illiberal practices of liberal regimes after 9/11
This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security.Although recent debate surrounding civil rights and liberties in post-9/11 Europe has focused on the forms, provisions and legal consequences of security-led … Continue reading Terror, insecurity and liberty: illiberal practices of liberal regimes after 9/11
Au nom du 11 septembre… Les démocraties à l’épreuve de l’antiterrorisme.
Since the 1990s, and especially since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and States of the European Union have stepped up efforts to meet the threat of “Islamic terrorism”: tougher legislation, strengthening cooperation against terrorism international, open or clandestine activities often violate international law. And the effects produced by stunning and spectacular … Continue reading Au nom du 11 septembre… Les démocraties à l’épreuve de l’antiterrorisme.
Europe’s 21st century challenge: Delivering liberty and security.
The book critically appraises the liberties of citizens and others within the EU, and the different ways in which they are affected by the proliferation of discourses, practices and norms of insecurity enacted in the name of collective and individual safety. It analyses from an interdisciplinary perspective the impacts of new techniques of surveillance and … Continue reading Europe’s 21st century challenge: Delivering liberty and security.
The Refugee Regime Complex
At the time of its creation, the refugee regime was relatively isolated amongst international institutions regulating human mobility. However, since its creation, globalization and interdependence have led to the creation of a range of new international institutions both in human mobility regimes, such as travel and labour migration, and non-mobility regimes, such as human rights, … Continue reading The Refugee Regime Complex