Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categories come to be seen as agents of social instability or as potential terrorists. Treating migration as a security threat has therefore increased insecurity amongst migrant and ethnic minority populations.

List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsINTRODUCTIONPART I: SECURITISATION OF MIGRATION 1. The Securitisation of Migration: an Absent Presence?; Vicki Squire2. The Securitisation of European Migration Policies: Perceptions of Threat and Management of Risk; Lena Karamanidou3. Migrants in the Realm of Experts: the Migration-crime-terrorist Nexus after 9/11; Mark MaguirePART II: SECURITISATION AND ITS IMPACT ON MIGRANT AND ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES 4. Regimes of Insecurity: Women and Immigration Detention in Europe; Khursheed Wadia5. Impact and Insecurity: the Securitisation of State Relations with British Muslim Communities; Laura Zahra McDonald 6. The Securitisation of Disadvantaged Communities: the Case of British-Somalis; Don Flynn and Awale OladPART III: POPULIST RESPONSES TO SECURITISATION AND MIGRATION IN A CRISIS EUROPE 7. The Rise of Italian Populism and 'Fascism of the 3rd Millenium' in the Age of Migration and Security; Emanuele Toscano8. Identitarian Populism: Securitisation of Migration and the Far Right in Times of Economic Crisis in Greece and the UK; Gabriella Lazaridis and Anna Maria Konsta9. Securitisation of Migration and Far Right Populist 'othering' in Scandinavian Countries; Gabriella Lazaridis and Vasiliki TsagkroniIndex