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This module begins with the study of migration both in Ireland and internationally before moving to study Security. This seminar involves critical overviews of surveillance and security studies, historically and in the contemporary moment. We will discuss the main theoretical paradigms and the work of some of the key thinkers in these areas today. We shall also look closely at the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault, which remain central to the ways in which securitization and surveillance are approached in the social sciences. And, we will discuss the extension of Foucault’s insights in the work of key interlocutors such as Didier Bigo and Paul Rabinow. Seminar participants will become familiar with notions of security and processes of securitization in a variety of contexts, from nineteenth-century colonial government to US national security, war and counter-terrorism. We will examine processes such as gatedness, risk, preparedness and, of course, ‘in-securitization’. From biometric technologies to environmental displacement and from migration control to bio-terror, this seminar involves close attention to contemporary examples and current theory with the aim of staking out an anthropological position in relation to security.
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MIGRATION AND SECURITY
