Bekämpa illegal invandring! En kritisk diskursanalys om säkerhet och migration i EU
(2010) STVK01 20101Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Since the 1990s, illegal immigration has become something highly politicised and closely linked to security concerns in EU. The aim of Critical Security Studies is to see through this securitization by claiming that there is a relation between knowledge and power, and externalize the different ways in which actors exercise their power. With Critical Discourse Analysis, this essay scrutinize the most recent documents from the EU to deconstruct the most common security arguments. This is done through textanalysis as well as through comparing with earlier research on the subject. The conclusions are that the EU still uses several securitizations arguments, for example a criminalizing technique and an internal security argument, that can be... (More)
- Since the 1990s, illegal immigration has become something highly politicised and closely linked to security concerns in EU. The aim of Critical Security Studies is to see through this securitization by claiming that there is a relation between knowledge and power, and externalize the different ways in which actors exercise their power. With Critical Discourse Analysis, this essay scrutinize the most recent documents from the EU to deconstruct the most common security arguments. This is done through textanalysis as well as through comparing with earlier research on the subject. The conclusions are that the EU still uses several securitizations arguments, for example a criminalizing technique and an internal security argument, that can be de-securitized with a radical change of perspective. (Less)
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- author
- Svensson, Sara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK01 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Critical Discourse Analysis, Illegal invandring, Critical Security Studies, Köpenhamnsskolan, EU
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1608240
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-29 13:25:07
- date last changed
- 2010-06-29 13:25:07
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