ABSTRACT
The European Union (EU) has paid increasing attention to migration as a security issue. This chapter looks at the progressive emancipation of migration as a policy domain acquiring strategic relevance. It identifies the 2015 European Agenda on Migration (EAoM) as the document that comes closest to a full-blown migration strategy and analyses that document's security priorities, relevant actions planned and resources committed. EU documents on migration and security strategies reveal an ever-growing preoccupation with migration as a relevant issue on its own terms and have linked migration with security to both the protection of the EU territory from uncontrolled flows as well as the safety of migrants. It is difficult to assess whether the EU migration strategy is internally consistent and comprehensive. Indeed, both the European Agenda on Migration (EAoM) and the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) make an attempt to account jointly for this policy domain in all its variegated aspects.
