Global migration och säkerhet

This course focuses on the relationship between global migration and security. Notions of security are increasingly invoked in relation to migration, and in this course we pay explicit attention to how migration is conceived of as a security issue and analyze what implications this has for the understanding of migration as a political and social phenomenon as well as for the ways in which international migration is governed, managed and controlled. Throughout the course we will therefore address questions regarding what kinds of insecurities global migration gives rise to, who is being secured, through what means, and to whose benefit.

In the course we approach the migration/security nexus from two different directions: from the security studies perspective and from the migration studies perspective. In the first part of the course we analyze contemporary scholarship around the securitization of migration, human security as well as the political economy of migration control. In the second part of the course we look to how the above logics are visible in the technologies used to manage and control global migration and the particular spaces and actors involved in such processes.

The overall aim of the course is to equip students with the knowledge and analytical skills necessary to analyze the relationship between migration and security, and to critically examine its consequences for how migration is understood and managed.