ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the dichotomy of national and human security, European security policy, border security measures and the consequences of these policies. In 1994, the Commission on Human Security developed the term human security, thereby introducing the individual's need of security and human rights. The human security framework offers migrants protection against several insecurities. In the area of migration, discussed within the framework of security, the European member states have prepared a Common European Asylum System (CEAS). It could be argued that contrary to European citizens, asylum seekers are under general suspicion and treated like potential criminals. Police authorities operate on the basis of risk analysis to identify risks and dangerous people and to deprive them of their liberty, before they can be delinquent. Migrants can be objects of police measures, although they have not committed a crime. Border police has been accused of illegal push-back refoulements of refugees at the Greek-Turkish sea border by several human rights organizations.
