Abstract

NALBANDOV, Robert. Securitization of Migration in Europe - The Case of Portugal. População e Sociedade [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.121-138.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 0873-1861.

The article analyzes the phenomenon of securitization of migration in Europe and its contribution to the intra-state security dilemmas as the causes of civil wars. The case-study of the article is Portugal, which presents a unique target of migration. The article reviews the patterns of population movements to and from Portugal as being pre-defined by its geographic location of being on the outskirts of the Western Europe and its Age of Exploration in Medieval Europe. In doing so, it also explains its unpresented responses to the 2015 European migration crisis and why the current level of securitization migration is the lowest than elsewhere in the EU, thus, significantly contributing to lowering the threshold for the inception of domestic security dilemma.

Keywords : securitization of migration; intrastate security dilemma; European migration; immigration to Portugal..

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