Just out - Edited volume on Migration Governance by SHUT MED team

The SHUT MED PIs and research team are delighted to announce the publication of the edited volume Varieties of Securitization: Migration Governance along the Central Mediterranean Route, for Palgrave Macmillan.

The book brings together contributions from scholars who took part in the SHUT MED conference held in Messina in 2024, alongside updated research and new chapters reflecting recent developments in the field.

Readers with access permissions can download the book directly from the publisher’s website.

The volume is structured around three thematic sections that collectively reassess how migration is framed, governed, and contested through processes of securitization.

Part I, Securitizing Migration: A Multidisciplinary Reappraisal, revisits the concept of securitization from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The chapters engage with theoretical debates in political science, contemporary history, sociotechnical and semiotic studies applied to migration and securitization, offering new analytical tools to understand how security narratives around migration are produced, challenged, and transformed.

Part II, Securitizing Migration Across the Central Mediterranean Route: Actors and Cases, turns to empirical analysis. Focusing on the Central Mediterranean, contributors examine the roles of state institutions, international organizations, local authorities, and non-state actors in shaping migration governance, also from a historical stance. Through detailed case studies, this section highlights how securitization unfolds in practice across different institutional and geographical contexts.

Part III, Beyond the Mediterranean: Securitizing Migration in Other Regions, expands the scope of the discussion by exploring comparative perspectives from outside the Mediterranean area. By examining other regional settings, the chapters situate the Central Mediterranean within broader global dynamics, showing both convergences and divergences in how migration becomes framed as a security issue worldwide.