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This seminar will set the agenda for the others in this series by considering theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of the securitisation of migration and by placing migration and security within current global, geopolitical and social contexts.

Speakers and participants will discuss: a) the decisions of governments to securitise migration, the intended and unintended consequences and hidden benefits/costs associated with securitisation; b) the strength and reasoning of normative calls for the de-securitisation of migration made by human security approach advocates; c) the validity of pragmatic accounts of long-term harm caused by short-term securitisation needs; d) the tension between state security and human security, specifically in relation to ‘borders’ and issues of ‘race’/ethnicity, gender and faith.