Vernacular Border Security

Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security, University of WarwickNick 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 Security2: Exceptional Times, Emergency Borders: (De)Constructing Europe's 'Migration Crisis'3: Populist and 'Post-Truth' Border Politics: The Securitization of Public Opinion on Migration4: Dangerous Aliens, Crisis Constellations, and Information Gaps: Vernacular Narratives of Migration5: Border Anxieties: Vernacular Narratives of Ontological (In)Security6: Desecuritizing Strangeness: Vernacular Counter-Narratives of Border SecurityAppendix 1: Moderators' Discussion GuideAppendix 2: List of Focus Groups

Vernacular Border Security represents a major contribution to the burgeoning field of vernacular security studies and will be of immense interest to scholars looking for alternative conceptualizations to understand the contemporary politics of migration, borders, and security.