MIGPSC · Shaping the European Migration Policy: the role of the security industry

Looking back to the last 20 years of EU migration management policy, it has become more and more palpable the growth and development of a security industry within a hybrid space, where European and non-European security forces operate alongside NGOs, humanitarian groups and international organizations, and where private security companies play a key role supplying technology, military equipment, hardware and intelligence services. The European Agenda for Migration already reflects the blurring of the lines between internal and external security, with policy outputs echoing the weight of the security industry. This project seeks to understand the increasing role of private security companies and the weight of the security industry in the way the EU migration management policy is shaped and produced. Later advances not only in security field in general, but also in the migration field in particular, illustrate that the market for security is continuously flourishing and a demand market is fed by evolving migration flows. In order to understand the level of influence of private security actors in the design of EU migration policy making, I will use process-tracing methodology to observe the changing pathways of migration policy process and understand when and why this changed has occurred.