Converting international migrations into issue of security: radical right parties in Europe and securitization of migration/Uluslararasi goclerin bir guvenlik konusuna donusumu: avrupa'da radikal sag partiler ve gocun Guvenliklestirilmesi

This study reveals that anti-immigrant policies in Europe result from a process of securitization, and that, within this process, radical right parties have been formulating discourses and approaches through a construction process by using some common security themes. These security themes can be classified as national security, economic security, cultural security and internal security. The frequency with which radical right parties use these themes may vary according to the specific historical, social and cultural characteristics of a particular country. The impact of these differences is studied in by a methodology based on securitization theory and critical discourse analysis and by analysing two radical right parties that achieved election success with their anti-immigrant policies: Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) from Austria, and Sweden Democrat (SD) from Sweden. Keywords: International Migration, European Union, Securitization, Radical Right Parties. Summary Immigration is a popular issue in the contemporary policies of Europe, both at the national and the supranational level. The increase in the volume and intensity of the migration flows from and to European countries, integration questions regarding settled migrants, internal dynamics of the European integration process and outcomes of the globalization could be defined as the leading factors which lie behind the rising salience and popularity of this issue. As a result, migration has become one of the issues of political polarization in the national and supranational policies of European countries today, indeed. Within this process, understanding regarding security in Europe has a prominent role. Following the end of the Cold War, the concept of security was also redefined to be any other concept in international relations and that has been raised to a widening of the traditional meaning and definition of security. In this redefinition, migration has been framed as a threat. Within this context, the Copenhagen School and their securitization theory provides a precious analytical tool that could be used in order to explain the existing approaches and sentiments regarding migration in Europe after the 1990s. When the case of migration considered, the approaches which frame migration as a subject of security have not been using solely border policies but reveal themselves also in employment policies, residency permit policies or social security policies. Radical right parties in Europe, the so-call