Politics of Insecurity

Jef Huysmans is Lecturer in Government and Politics, The Open University, UK. His research focuses on post-structural international political theory, the political significance of security practice in Western societies, and the securitization of immigration, asylum and refugees.

• 1. Politics of Insecurity, Technology and the Political 2. Security Framing: The Question of the Meaning of Security 3. Displacing the Spectre of the State in Security Studies: From Referent Objects to Techniques of Government 4. Securitizing Migration: Freedom from Existential Threats and the Constitution of Insecure Communities 5. European Integration and Societal Insecurity 6. Freedom and Security in the EU: A Foucaultian View on Spill-Over 7. Migration, Securitization and the Question of Political Community in the EU 8. De-Securitizing Migration: Security Knowledge and Concepts of the Political Bibliography

'Emphasising the sociological nature of security analysis, this book advances a political-sociology theoretical understanding in security studies while at the same time making a substantial empirical contribution.'- Gulf Research Center Book Review'Jef Huysmans has opened up the whole area of societal security to a deeper and more detailed scrutiny than it has been given before.'- Dr Klejda Mulaj, Senior Researcher