Securitisation as the Work of Framing

Abstract

The chapter proposes to look at securitisation as the work of policy framing. It discusses how framing literature may help in reorienting the securitisation framework and its main components (i.e. speech act, exceptionalism, actor audience dichotomy, context and acceptance) to investigate not one specific understanding of security that is supposed to “break normal politics”, but the whole plethora of entangled security logics that to different degrees and to different ends frame migration as a security issue at the EU level. In this way, this chapter discusses each building block of the theory and explains how the application of framing and security logics opens the analysis to the exploration of the discriminatory and violent consequences of various, often intertwining, security discourses and policy practices.