Vernacular Border Security

Citizens' Narratives of Europe's 'Migration Crisis'

Vaughan-Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-888269-5 (ISBN)

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This book argues that a conceptual and methodological shift is required in the way that border security is understood, and that a new approach is urgently required. It examines vernacular narratives of the 'crisis' and how they offer insight into citizens' knowledge of the 'crisis', and actually-existing alternatives to fantasies of control.

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

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-888269-6 / 0198882696
ISBN-13	978-0-19-888269-5 / 9780198882695
Zustand	Neuware