Critical Security Studies and the Paris School: a study on Frontex and the securitization of migration in the EU

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https://doi.org/10.24215/23142766e092

Keywords:

security, Securitization, Critical Safety Studies, Paris school, Surveillance, Governmentality, Frontex

Abstract

What is security? How is built? What visions of the political are behind the different policies and theories of security? These are the starting questions for this study. We analyze the contribution of the Paris School of Security Studies, integrated into the so-called Critical Security Studies, which seeks to build a sociology of security based on the intellectual legacy of Michelle Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida, among others. Our objective is to explain this relevant theoretical proposal to study (in) security, specified in the transdisciplinary view offered by International Political Sociology. From this perspective, we study the case of Frontex, the EU agency in charge of border control.

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Augusto Delkáder Palacios, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Investigador en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Profesor de Relaciones Internacionales en la Universitat  Oberta  de  Catalunya  y  Observador  Electoral  Internacional  en  el  Ministerio  de  Asuntos  Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación de España

Email: delkaugusto@gmail.com

Published

2020-07-20

How to Cite

Delkáder Palacios, A. (2020). Critical Security Studies and the Paris School: a study on Frontex and the securitization of migration in the EU. International Relations, 29(58), 092. https://doi.org/10.24215/23142766e092

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