AN ASSESSMENT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO IMMIGRATION: POST 9/11 AND SECURITIZED GOVERNANCE OF IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES

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Throughout the United States of America’s history, immigration has been regarded as an economic and social development component for the country in terms of covering the lowest paying and supposedly lower-class jobs; thus, immigrants were perceived as a necessary workforce for the American economic structure and work atmosphere. It is a fact that even though there were some initiatives in the politicization of migrants in the United States through political, social, and economic restrictions such as exclusion acts and migration quotas, immigrants kept coming to the United States seeking economic and social opportunities. However, playing as a catalyst role for the transformation of the perception of immigrants, the 9/11 attacks have become a milestone for both immigration and US policies stemming from a securitized objective. Therefore, this thesis aims to analyze the institutional and political approaches such as border enforcements, border patrol, legislative changes, and negative political narrative toward immigration in the post-9/11 era in the US by applying the securitization theories of the Copenhagen School and Paris Schools regarding the immigration practices. Lastly, after analyzing the securitized institutional approach to immigration, this thesis will propose an assessment that analyzes whether this attempted securitized approach through institutional and political changes was utilized or considered as successful.

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Immigration, Securitization, The Post 9/11 Era, US Immigration Policy, Discourse Analysis

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O. K. Özalp, “AN ASSESSMENT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO IMMIGRATION: POST 9/11 AND SECURITIZED GOVERNANCE OF IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.