Human Security and Migration in Europe's Southern Borders

• Main Author: Ferreira, Susana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: European Union.; Emigration and immigration.; Security, International.; Political science.; Social justice.; Human rights.; European Union Politics.; Migration.; International Security Studies.; Governance and Government.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective. The intense migratory flows registered during the year 2015 and the tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea have tested the mechanisms of the Union's immigration and asylum policie...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Towards migration governance
• 3. Challenges to transnational migration
• 4. Borders in the age of human mobility
• 5. Policies and practices on migration in the EU
• 6. EU Border Management: towards an effective control?
• 7. Managing migration in the Mediterranean
• 8. Narratives on migration: from words to perceptions
• 9. A Southern Mediterranean migration model
• 10. The specificities of the migration model
• 11. Conclusions.