Frontiers of Fear: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States - Softcover

Chebel D'Appollonia, Ariane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801477743 ISBN 13: 9780801477744

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2012

Synopsis

On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s. This trend accelerated in the aftermath of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in Europe. In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia raises two central questions with profound consequences for national security and immigration policy: First, does the securitization of immigration issues actually contribute to the enhancement of internal security? Second, does the use of counterterrorist measures address such immigration issues as the increasing number of illegal immigrants, the resilience of ethnic tensions, and the emergence of homegrown radicalization?

Chebel d’Appollonia questions the main assumptions that inform political agendas in the United States and throughout Europe, analyzing implementation and evaluating the effectiveness of policies in terms of their stated objectives. She argues that the new security-based immigration regime has proven ineffective in achieving its prescribed goals and even aggravated the problems it was supposed to solve: A security/insecurity cycle has been created that results in less security and less democracy. The excesses of securitization have harmed both immigration and counterterrorist policies and seriously damaged the delicate balance between security and respect for civil liberties.

About this title

About the Author:

Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia is Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark: The State University of New Jersey and Senior Researcher affiliated with the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po (Paris). She is the author of several books in French, most recently Les Frontières du Racisme, and coeditor of Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11 and Immigration, Integration and Security.

Review:

""Chebel d'Appollonia’s book is a gripping if rather depressing read that brings togetherand discusses the relationships between, most of the contemporary subjects of panics that may be 'moral’ but in some cases have a basis for justification – asylum-seeking, illegal immigration, Islamophobia, terrorism, etc." ―Christopher T. Husbands, Ethnic and Racial Studies (May 2013)"

"In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia makes an important contribution by linking together what have up to now been largely separate discussions in the West over citizenship and the securitization of migration. She covers aspects of security that often escape notice in studies of migration by international relations scholars and that almost always escape notice in studies of migrant integration by sociologists and comparative political scientists. As Europe and the United States fixate on real and perceived threats to safety and social cohesion, civil liberties and traditions of inclusiveness can seem to suffer. This book illuminates the trade-offs and interconnections at issue―while pointing out how researchers might best go about trying to understand and explain them."

(Patrick R. Ireland, Illinois Institute of Technology, author of The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0801477743
• ISBN 13: 9780801477744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336