TY - JOUR
AU - Bigo, Didier
AB - Alternatives 27 (2002), Special Issue, 63-92 Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease Didier Bigo* Migration is increasingly interpreted as a security problem. The prism of security analysis is especially important for politicians, for nationa l and local police organizations, the military police, cus­ toms officers, border patrols, secret services, armies, judges , some social services (health care, hospitals, schools), private corpora­ tions (bank analysts, providers of technology surveillance, private policing) , many journalists (especially from television and the mor e sensationalist newspapers), and a significant fraction of gen­ eral public opinion, especially but not only amon g those attracted to "law an d order." Th e popularity of this security prism is no t an expression of traditional responses to a rise of insecurity, crime, terrorism , and the negative effects of globalization; it is the result of the creation of a continuu m of threats and general unease in which many different actors exchange their fears and beliefs in the process of making a risky an d dangerous society. Th e professionals in charge of the management of risk and fear especially transfer th e legitimacy they gain from struggles against terrorists, criminals, 
TI - Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease
JF - Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
DO - 10.1177/03043754020270S105
DA - 2002-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/security-and-immigration-toward-a-critique-of-the-governmentality-of-8Eh2JM6Wf3
SP - 63
EP - 92
VL - 27
IS - 1_suppl
DP - DeepDyve
ER -