2021/10/26 by Catherine Baker
Social Sciences · #Gender, Security, and Conflict #Global Security and Public Health #Migration, Refugees, and Integration
paper · doi:10.1177/09670106211024408
openalex publication_date 2021/10/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Both the fortification of European borders against migration from the global South and Western militaries' involvement in wars ostensibly to prevent terrorist networks reaching Western shores belong to what critical and feminist security studies already recognize as a racialized security regime.Within this gendered racial order, policies, discourses and everyday practices surrounding border security, migration, asylum and war reinforce each other to construct 'Europe' and 'the West' as normatively white spaces, under threat from racialized Others within and without (see, for example, Gray and Franck, 2019;Stachowitsch and Sachseder, 2019).Yet, on the southeastern periphery of the European Union, which was