Migration och säkerhet: Vems säkerhet? En innehållsanalys av Frontex:s årliga riskanalyser 2014-2018

Abstract

This essay aims to give an overview of the ways Frontex describes immigration as an security concern in their risk analysis. Frontex or the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, was established on october 2016 by the European Commission as a response to the 2015 migration crisis in Europe. Some researchers believe that Frontex has been distributed the power to define risks which gives them an important role in the process of decision making for the european migratory policy. This essay is build on critical security studies theory (CSS). CSS shows how some questions are constructed as a security concern and becomes more political by the ways they are described as a threat for the state or the public security. In this essay has been used a multi-method content analysis to quantitatively count and then qualitatively analyse how concepts risk, threat, security, crisis and humanitarian are used to describe migration in these risk analysis. It showed that the use of some concepts more than the others and the context in which those are used does actually has a meaning on how migration can be described as a security concern and if it concerns more Europe or the refugees and migrants.