Frontex as the Institutional Reification of the Link between Security, Migration and Border Management
Frontex as the Institutional Reification of the Link between Security, Migration and Border Management

Summary/Abstract: Security issues very often have the effect of being a driving force for the integration of communities. This is unquestionably true for the European Union (EU), which has seen entire populations move under the lens of security considerations. The relationship between migration1 and security became increasingly entwined, to the point that some disciplines of political science, chiefly migration studies and security studies, structured themselves around each of them. In that sense, we are getting closer and closer to the point of internalisation of international relations (security topics) and internationalisation of internal political order, because of external concerns. Moreover, in the field of social sciences, a certain reference has argued that migration issues were securitised against the backdrop of European integration. Some scholars, essentially those who claim to be representatives of Critical Security Studies, have indeed shown the slow process from politicisation to the securitisation of migration issues presented as a security threat. Among them is Didier Bigo (France), who is a major leader of an extremely prolific research program.

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