International Migration and International Security

Through an interdisciplinary analytic lenses that combines debates that have emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics have increased extremism, prejudiced attitudes towards others and international xenophobia.

Auteur

Valeria Bello is a research fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM), Spain. She has also been the founding scientific coordinator of the UNU Migration Network from January 2013 to January 2016. Her research interests concern the role of non-state actors in the area of both migration and interethnic relations and in the fields of international relations and human security.

Résumé
Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics have increased extremism, prejudiced attitudes towards others and international xenophobia.Bello begins her analysis by tracing similarities between Europe today and Europe before World War II to explain why prejudice is a global security threat and why it is arising as a current global concern within International Organizations. In such a light, Bello shows how changes in the International System and the attack on the UN practice of Intercultural Dialogue have become sources of new perceived threats and the reasons for which new exclusionary patterns have arisen. She argues that both those outcomes have been exacerbating the perceived clash of civilizations and the root causes of different fashions of extremisms. Bello concludes by portraying alternative ways to deal with these instabilities through a partnership of the different stakeholders involved, including both state and non-state actors at global, regional, national and local levels.International Migration and International Security provides a unique crosscutting angle from which to analyze the current socio-political crisis connected to the theme of international migration that the world is currently witnessing. Bello expertly shows that different paths for the world are possible and suggest ways to further promote Global Human Security through local, national, regional and global practices of Intercultural Dialogue.

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Table of Contents

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From the World to Europe and Vice Versa: An Introduction to why Prejudice Is a Global Security Threat

Part I: The Facts

Chapter 1: Changes in the International System and Consequences in Terms of Mobility

Chapter 2: 9/11: The Attack on the Practice of Intercultural Dialogue and Processes of Radicalization

Part II: The Narratives and the Threats

Chapter 3: The Spiral of the Securitization of Migration and the Mediterranean Crises

Chapter 4: Ordinary Security Threats: Inclusion, Exclusions and the Question Of Security

Chapter 5: Extraordinary Security Threats: Different Fashions of Extremism

Part III: The Alternatives

Chapter 6: Intercultural Dialogue: Towards a Social De-Construction of Terrorism

Conclusions

References

Index