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The book under review is a collaborative attempt to give an insight on European Union securitization concerns and refugee and asylum seekers status as well. After 9/11 Europe has experienced a tremendous policy shifts towards refugees and asylum seekers in context of terrorism.
The book comprises 6 chapters with separate introduction and conclusion. Each chapter has a bonding connection to next chapter and continuity in order to draw a clear picture of the whole scenario.
Introduction deals with how the scenario has been changed and political debate has been generated which resulted into shifts in political parties positioning and standings. Issue of asylum and migration has not been restricted to arguments only but it has given hype to electoral discourse also. It has shaped certain policies in order to control the flow of immigrants towards industrial countries along with legislative attempts like visa restrictions and carrier sanctions. The purpose of the book is to give analyses about the EU techniques of securitizations in asylum-seekers and refugees matter along with the methodologies used for data collection upon which the further analyses has been done. It has briefly described the structure of the book as well.
The first chapter entitled ‘A new securitization framework' provides a theoretical framework for required pragmatic analysis. Chapter deals in two sections where one section tells us about the Copenhagen School frame work on securitization but which lacks application and requires modification for practical analysis. It says that there are no security issues but ‘securitizing speech act', if uttered by legitimate security actors then increase the validity of issue. The other section provides four features of Copenhagen frame work required to redefine for better implication.
The second chapter is about ‘Asylum, migration and border controls in Europe: the historical context' which deals with the evolution of migration and asylum-seeker issue as a security threat before The Maastricht Treaty came into the force in 1993. The authors have described the historical development of...