CANCELLED - BISA 2020 conference

Dealing with Popular Discontent on Security and Migration

17 Jun 2020, 10:30

1h 30m

Stephenson Room

Panel European Security Working Group

Description

This panel explores how national and European actors understand and govern popular discontent. The panel focuses specifically on three areas of criminalisation - migration, urban protests and homelessness - and proposes an in-depth analysis of the actors' discoursive practices and operational responses.

Subcontributions

• Critiquing the effectiveness of EU NAVFOR MED Sophia - an example of the Comprehensive Approach to security?
• (In)securitising Homelessness, Legitimising Control: Agency, migration, and the policing of homeless people in central London
• Yellow as a threat: criminalising urban protests as a political mechanism
• The impact of European Union migration policies in southern European countries: the case of Spain