Description
Book SynopsisThe 21st century has brought new and challenging dimensions to our understanding of security and migration. How do these two important fields intersect? And what does this collision of policy concerns and public interests mean for states and individuals alike? This book seeks to answer these questions.
Trade Review"This book boasts a treasure trove of empirical examples and a primer of sorts on refugee and immigration laws, conventions, and regulations. It also offers much food for thought about the intersection of migration with individual and collective security in the 21st century."
Choice "This extremely interesting monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the migration-security nexus, investigating key issues raised by this relationship and trying to overcome the uncertain and heterogeneous nature of available information in the field."
International Journal of Refugee Law
"In this important work, Elspeth Guild provides us with a systematic analysis of the relationship between security and migration. Guild brings together critical security studies with a new approach to migration - 'critical migration studies', providing important insights into the changing relationships between citizens and states."
Stephen Castles, University of Oxford
"Theoretically informed and empirically incisive, Elspeth Guild's account of the sites at which the dynamics of migration meet proliferating claims about security is at once precise and provocative. Its assessment of recent European developments is especially compelling."
R. B. J. Walker, University of Victoria
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vi
1 Understanding security and migration in the twenty-first century 1
2 Migration, citizenship and the state 29
3 Migration, expulsion and the state 47
4 Armed conflict, flight and refugees 68
5 Migration, torture and the complicit state 87
6 Migration and data: documenting the non-national 108
7 Economy and migration 132
8 Foreigners, trafficking and globalization 155
9 Sovereignty, security and borders 176
Notes 192
Bibliography 199
Index 211
