Is migration a security issue?

Abstract

International migration is probably one of the most cited, yet also most contested, areas of the so called new security agenda, which emerged at the end of the Cold War, and resulted in a broadening and deepening of our understanding of what constitutes a security threat or challenge. Migration tends to be viewed as a security issue in security studies since the 1980s. ‘The duality of threats apparently caused by migration to both national sovereignty and human security are largely reflected in much of the recent academic literature.’