Synopses & Reviews
Western governments characterize immigrants and their descendants as potential threats to public safety, social cohesion and national identity. Their resulting policies have commonly elicited negative reactions among migrant organizations and networks. The security literature largely focuses on the question of radicalization, another on civic engagement, a third on human rights. Each is written in isolation, largely oblivious to the agenda of the other. This generates a question for both the academic and policy communities concerning the effects of securitization on the patterns of organization and political mobilization of migrants and minorities: why have these policies fostered such diverse reactions among targeted migrant communities, extending from passivity to democratic engagement, civil disobedience, violent protest and possibly even radicalization based on alienation and resentment?
Synopsis
Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats. This book identifies how different groups have responded and explains why, synthesizing findings in the fields of securitization, migrant integration, and migrant mobilization.
About the Author
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, educated at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris/Sciences Po (Ph.D., HDR), is Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers - State University of New Jersey. She is also Senior Researcher affiliated to the CEVIPOF (Center for Political Research, Sciences Po Paris). Professor Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia's research focuses on the politics of immigration and anti-discrimination, security issues, racism and xenophobia, extreme-right wing movements, immigrant integration, urban racism, and European policies. She has taught at universities both in France (Paris III-Sorbonne, and the Columbia University and the University of Chicago Programs in Paris) and in the US (New York University, University of Pittsburgh). Professor Chebel d'Appollonia was selected as the Buffet Chair Professor at Northwestern University (2005) and was visiting fellow at the Ford Institute for Human Security (2004-2006) and at the European Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. Furthermore, she was awarded the EU-US Fulbright scholar in 2006. She published five books, and contributed to fourteen edited books. She also co-edited two books with Simon Reich entitled Immigration, Integration and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective (2008) and Managing Ethnic Diversity After 9/11: Internal Security and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective (2010). Her recent publications include Les Frontières du Racisme (Presses de Sciences Po, 2011), and Frontiers of Fears: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe (Cornell University Press, March 2012).
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Securitization of Immigration and Security Governance
2. Securitization and Discrimination
3. Securitization and Integration
4. Securitization and Conventional Mobilization
5. Securitization and Unconventional Mobilization
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index