Godišnjak Fakulteta bezbednosti (Jan 2017)
Securitization of migration in EU strategic documents
Abstract
The subject of this article is securitization of migration - presenting migration as a security threat. More specifically, application of Huysmans's approach to securitization of migration aims to examine the existing situation in the European Union's strategic documents related to this phenomenon. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is description of the securitization of migration across the European Union contained in strategic documents in the area of security and migration in the context of three reference objects of Huysmans's approach - internal security and the internal market, European cultural values and the European welfare system. First of all, a methodological framework and a qualitative content analysis as a main research method are presented in this article. In the central part of the article, the focus is on the process of applying Huysmans's approach to the securitization of migration in the analysis of EU strategic documents and the main outcomes of this analysis. The research results pointed out internal security and the internal market as a main reference object that is threatened by migration, followed by concluding observations.
