CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Ghughunishvili, Irina |
|---|---|
| Title | Securitization of Migration in the United States after 9/11: Constructing Muslims and Arabs as Enemies |
| Summary | September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center have further demonstrated the need to assess or reassess the migration security nexus as migration has increasingly been viewed as a security problem. Migration to the United States and in the European Union has long been conceived as a threat to ‘social’ security (jobs, welfare, etc.), concurrently endangering identities of local populations. After 9/11, in the United States the issue was framed in connection with the fight against terrorism, where the newly adopted policies and border control targeted specifically Arab and Muslim migrants. Securitization theory, as proposed by the Copenhagen School and later developed by the second generation securitization scholars, is as suitable framework in explaining the phenomenon, as it is based on the inter-subjective threat establishment. The aim of this paper is demonstrate whether the theoretical framework can explain the construction of Muslim and Arab migrants as the ‘other’ though the security/migration nexus. The emphasis on the paper is how the process took place by looking at the construction of the threat through discourse as well as institutional practices. Although, the Copenhagen School’s theory can explain how the process was frame through institutional practices, the framework need to be expanded in order to include indirect threat construction, where certain topics, like ethnic profiling, are absent from public discourse. |
| Supervisor | Paul, Roe |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/ghughunishvili_irina.pdf |
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