ABSTRACT
Wars always provoke human displacement and forced migration. Driven by violence, people become internally displaced or cross borders in search of refuge. This chapter explores these connections between war, displacement, refuge seeking, the politics of exclusionary securitization, and, ultimately, peacebuilding. The majority of people coming to Europe in the period since 2015 were escaping Syria’s “internationalized civil war”. Temporariness manifests in policies designed to keep migrants on the move and unsettled. Didier Bigo uses the analogy of the mobius strip to suggest the inherent entanglement of security and insecurity. Critical thinking about earlier uses of the term, which emphasized international intervention to support liberal political and economic models of governance based on Western norms and institutional patterns. Civil society and grassroots initiatives in support of migrants are plentiful across Europe, some initiated by people seeking refuge, some by citizens of receiving states, others collaboratively between these groups. In recent decades the securitization of migration has intensified.
