Project description
How the security industry has impacted migration management
Immigration management today involves many actors. For instance, humanitarian groups and international organisations are operating closely with private security companies that are needed to supply technology, military equipment, hardware and intelligence services. The lines between internal and external security are blurring. In this context, the EU-funded MIGPSC project will investigate the role of private security companies and how the security industry has shaped EU migration management policy. The project will use process tracing methodology to observe the changing pathways of migration policy process. Looking back to the last 20 years of EU migration policy, the findings will shed light on when and why this change occurred.
Objective
Looking back to the last 20 years of EU migration management policy, it has become more and more palpable the growth and development of a security industry within a hybrid space, where European and non-European security forces operate alongside NGOs, humanitarian groups and international organizations, and where private security companies play a key role supplying technology, military equipment, hardware and intelligence services.
The European Agenda for Migration already reflects the blurring of the lines between internal and external security, with policy outputs echoing the weight of the security industry.
This project seeks to understand the increasing role of private security companies and the weight of the security industry in the way the EU migration management policy is shaped and produced. Later advances not only in security field in general, but also in the migration field in particular, illustrate that the market for security is continuously flourishing and a demand market is fed by evolving migration flows. In order to understand the level of influence of private security actors in the design of EU migration policy making, I will use process-tracing methodology to observe the changing pathways of migration policy process and understand when and why this changed has occurred.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panel
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
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CF37 1DL Pontypridd
United Kingdom
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