An interdisciplinary examination of the issues of security and insecurity raised by migration for states, their citizens and migrants themselves, this book will be of interest to scholars of politics, sociology and geography researching migration, race, ethnicity, human and state security and EU politics and policy

Gabriella Lazaridis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK

Introduction, Gabriella Lazaridis; Chapter 1 The Fallacy of Securitizing Migration: Elite Rationality and Unintended Consequences, Georgios Karyotis; Chapter 2 Vanishing Borders and Biometric Citizens, Mark Maguire; Chapter 3 Security and Insecurity at the Border: Notes from the Mexican-US Border when Considering the Mediterranean, Natalia Ribas-Mateos; Chapter 4 The Impacts of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis, Khalid Koser; Chapter 5 Globalization, EU Enlargement and the Challenge of Financial Crisis: East-West Migration and the Search for EU Solidarities, Branka Likic-Brboric; Chapter 6 Engendering Insecurity: The EU Asylum Regime, Liza Schuster; Chapter 7 Security, Insecurity and Refugees in The Netherlands, Kees Nagtegaal; Chapter 8 Unaccompanied Minors in Europe: Between Immigration Control and the Need for Protection, Bernd Parusel; Chapter 9 The Gendered Dimension of Security and Migration, Giovanna Campani; Chapter 10 Turning Immigrants into Security Threats: A Multi-Faceted Process, Anastassia Tsoukala; Chapter 11 Visibilization of the Invisible: Gender, Islam, Insecurity 1 This chapter was written during the author's stay at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes, France, January-June 2010., Anna Krasteva; Chapter 12 Convergence of Securitization of Migration and 'New Racism' in Europe: Rise of Culturalism and Disappearance of Politics, Burcu To?ral; Chapter 13 Impossibilities of Social Citizenship: On the Statelessness of Migrants, Mojca Pajnik; Chapter 14 Plastic Citizenship, (In)securities and Processes of Abjectification: The Case of Albanian Migrant Women in Greece, Gabriella Lazaridis, Anna Maria Konsta; conclusion Concluding Remarks: State Security Versus the Security of Migrants: The Unbalanced Contest, Annie Phizacklea;