Security and Migration in Asia: The dynamics of securitisation

by Melissa Curley and Curley Melissa

Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them. The process and theory of 'securitization' and 'desecuritization' have been developed within the international relations literature by the so-call Copenhagen school scholars,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415400554
• ISBN13: 9780415400558
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"