ABSTRACT
In this chapter, rather than investigating the causes and explanations for “warm peace” in Europe, which is expressed in the form of a security community, I join recent security community researchers in their efforts to investigate challenges to security communities. 1 I will specifically focus on the negative impact of immigration-related securitization processes on the European security community. Yet, rather than investigating the influence of these processes on the European security community’s member states as I do elsewhere, 2 I will show that peaceful relations between people and societies – who are no less members in the European security community than are states, as will be established below – are no less influenced by those processes. This chapter thus assesses the impact of immigration-related securitization processes on Security Community (SC) in general and the European security community in particular broadly conceived.
