Politics of Fear: Migration, Control and National Imaginations (original) (raw)

Outline § Issues of migration, racism and migration control § Controlling migration central to the history of the West § One important point of reference is the establishment of nation-states § Mobilizing fear as political strategy § Within the field of migration policy § The issue of 'war on terror' Magnus Dahlstedt -Politics of fear 2 MIGRATION CONTROL Magnus Dahlstedt -Politics of fear 3 The mobility paradox § The point of departure of today's lecture: § The project of European integration welcomes the 'borderless world' § Yet more walls and control systems than ever before are being built under the banner of the 'free market' and 'free mobility' § Necessary to analyse the relations between politics and fear, racism and control Magnus Dahlstedt -Politics of fear 4 Controlling migration § Control over flows have had a crucial function in capitalist economies § Flows of capital, commodities, services and people § International migration has been a central factor in the growth of capitalism § The State is not the only organ involved in the on-going business of controlling space and regulating mobility § Para-state organs, security firms, NGOs and individual civilians Magnus Dahlstedt -Politics of fear 5