Securitization of Migration: Sociocultural Ontology of Contemporaneity
https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2023-14-3-127-141
Abstract
The study takes as its starting point the incorporation of the socio-cultural factor into the cognitive schemes of politics as a key trend in changing the interpretive logic of political ontology. The depletion of conventional epistemological instruments for interpreting modern world socio-political constructions prompts inquiry into new cognitive perspectives. Migration is one factor that concentrates the spectrum of ongoing transformations within the conceptual and discursive spaces built around it. The article examines the contradictions between the generalisation of Western experience and forms of collective identity, the evolving understanding of the border, and the diversifi cation of political actors that have arisen due to migration fl ows. The reimagining of migration in the context of security is a theoretical, political, and instrumental force in shaping contemporary society. It alters the customary fi elds of politics, value hierarchies, dominant cognitive frameworks, and global order. The reimagining of migration in the context of security is a theoretical, political, and instrumental force in shaping contemporary society. The reimagining of migration in the context of security is a theoretical, political, and instrumental force in shaping contemporary society. Drawing on various narratives, this article shows that the securitization of migration in public consciousness and political practice perpetuates a fear of a total security vacuum and perceived threats.
About the Author
M. M. Mchedlova
RUDN University; Russian Federation Institute of Sociology – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria M. Mchedlova, PhD (Polit. Sci.), Professor, Head of the Department of comparative politics, RUDN University; Chief Research Fellow, Russian Federation Institute of Sociology – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences
6, Miklukho-Maklaya street, Moscow, 117198
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Mchedlova M.M. Securitization of Migration: Sociocultural Ontology of Contemporaneity. Journal of International Analytics. 2023;14(3):127-141. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2023-14-3-127-141
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