Security, insecurity and migration in Europe / edited by Gabriella Lazaridis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The fallacy of securitizing migration: elite rationality and unintended consequences / Georgios Karyotis -- 2. Vanishing borders and biometric citizens / Mark Maguire -- 3. Security and insecurity at the border: notes from the Mexican-US border when considering the Mediterranean / Natalia Ribas-Mateos -- 4. The impacts of the global economic and financial crisis / Khalid Koser -- 5. Globalization, EU enlargement and the challenge of financial crisis: East-West migration and the search for EU solidarities / Branka Likic-Brboric -- 6. Engendering insecurity: the EU asylum regime / Liza Schuster -- 7. Security, insecurity and refugees in The Netherlands / Kees Nogtegaal -- 8. Unaccompanied minors in Europe: between immigration control and the need for protection / Bernd Parusel -- The gendered dimension of security and migration / Giovanna Campani -- 10. Turning immigrants into security threats: a multi-faceted process / Anastassia Tsoukala -- 11. Visualization of the invisible: gender, Islam, insecurity / Ana Krasteva -- 12. Convergence of securitization of migration and "new racism' in Europe: rise of culturalism and disappearance of politics / Burcu Toǧral -- 13. Impossibilities of social citizenship: on the statelessness of migrants / Mojca Pajnik -- 14. Plastic citizenship, (in)securities and processes of abjectification: the case of Albanian migrant women in Greece / Gabriella Lazaridis and Ana Maria Konsta -- Concluding remarks: state security versus the security of migrants: the unbalanced contest / Anie Phizacklea.