Vernacular Border Security

Citizens' Narratives of Europe's 'Migration Crisis'
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-888269-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Since the peak of Europe's so-called 2015 'migration crisis', the dominant governmental response has been to turn to deterrent border security across the Mediterranean and construct border walls throughout the EU. During the same timeframe, EU citizens are widely represented - by politicians, by media sources, and by opinion polls - as fearing a loss of control over national and EU borders. Despite the intensification of EU border security with visibly violent effects, EU citizens are

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaughan-Williams, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Towards a Vernacular Study of Border Security

- 2: Exceptional Times, Emergency Borders: (De)Constructing Europe's 'Migration Crisis'

- 3: Populist and 'Post-Truth' Border Politics: The Securitization of Public Opinion on Migration

- 4: Dangerous Aliens, Crisis Constellations, and Information Gaps: Vernacular Narratives of Migration

- 5: Border Anxieties: Vernacular Narratives of Ontological (In)Security

- 6: Desecuritizing Strangeness: Vernacular Counter-Narratives of Border Security

- Appendix 1: Moderators' Discussion Guide

- Appendix 2: List of Focus Groups

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick

Nick Vaughan-Williams is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick, UK. He is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research in Politics and International Studies and the Association for Borderlands Studies Past Presidents' Gold Award. His research on the international politics of borders, security, and migration has been funded by the British Academy, UK Economic and Social Research Council, and Leverhulme Trust. His publications include Europe's Border Crisis (OUP, 2015) and Border Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).