Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Critical approaches to security have enriched the literature significantly by provoking novel theoretical debates and introducing new areas of research since their entrance into the field. They have deepened and widened the traditional understanding of security by introducing referent objects other...
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2023-10-01
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| description | Critical approaches to security have enriched the literature significantly by provoking novel theoretical debates and introducing new areas of research since their entrance into the field. They have deepened and widened the traditional understanding of security by introducing referent objects other than the state and types of threats other than the military. These attempts have distracted security studies’ extensive focus on state security and pointed to new research topics that were traditionally excluded from the scope of security studies. Curious about how different critical security approaches make sense of the migration-security nexus, this study examines how the Copenhagen School (discursive approach) and the Paris School (sociological approach) analyze the U.S.-Mexico border. It first examines how these two schools of thought define, understand, and approach security. Second, it directs its focus on the critical security literature on the U.S.-Mexico borderland. Third, the article discusses both approaches’ accounts on the same border and how they handle dis/similar aspects of the migration-security nexus. The study concludes by defending the argument that bridging these two critical security approaches may increase their analytical power in making sense of the migration-security nexus. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6ee3d0b973f843f5ad82de209ed22e9d2025-08-20T02:14:07ZengIstanbul University PressSiyasal: Journal of Political Sciences2618-63302023-10-0132220121610.26650/siyasal.2023.32.1268043123456Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico BorderÇağla Lüleci-sula0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0534-8271TED Üniversitesi, Ankara, TurkiyeCritical approaches to security have enriched the literature significantly by provoking novel theoretical debates and introducing new areas of research since their entrance into the field. They have deepened and widened the traditional understanding of security by introducing referent objects other than the state and types of threats other than the military. These attempts have distracted security studies’ extensive focus on state security and pointed to new research topics that were traditionally excluded from the scope of security studies. Curious about how different critical security approaches make sense of the migration-security nexus, this study examines how the Copenhagen School (discursive approach) and the Paris School (sociological approach) analyze the U.S.-Mexico border. It first examines how these two schools of thought define, understand, and approach security. Second, it directs its focus on the critical security literature on the U.S.-Mexico borderland. Third, the article discusses both approaches’ accounts on the same border and how they handle dis/similar aspects of the migration-security nexus. The study concludes by defending the argument that bridging these two critical security approaches may increase their analytical power in making sense of the migration-security nexus.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/ADB49461558E427A95F2ACADCE1B5F2Fborder securitycopenhagen schoolmexicoparis schoolunited states |
| spellingShingle | Çağla Lüleci-sula Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border Siyasal: Journal of Political Sciences border security copenhagen school mexico paris school united states |
| title | Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| title_full | Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| title_fullStr | Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| title_short | Critical Security Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| title_sort | critical security perspectives on the u s mexico border |
| topic | border security copenhagen school mexico paris school united states |
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