ABSTRACT
Introduction The belief that 9/11 led to the “securitization” of migration policy is fairly widespread amongst scholars and commentators on migration issues. The central claim is that the terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the subsequent bombings in Madrid and London provided an opportunity for governments, politicians, and the media to correlate terrorism with immigration. Immigrants were portrayed as a security threat, legitimizing the introduction of more draconian measures to restrict and control migration. James Hampshire (see Chapter 6 of this volume) offers an eloquent articulation of this argument.
