The EUGov Chair was officially invited to participate in the activities of the SECUREU Jean Monnet Network: 

"The Securitization of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities and the Rise of Xenophobia in the EU (SECUREU)"

The initiative is led by the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacional (IBEI). SECUREU’s research explores the securitization of migrants and its consequences for xenophobia in the context of the recent EU Refugee Crisis, which has fundamentally transformed EU migration policy but also led to contrasting reactions by individual countries.SECUREU further investigates the securitization of migrants and ethnic minorities from a historical perspective by focusing on how the framing of different minority groups has evolved over time and how ethnic minorities experience and deal with their representation in public discourse. In developing this research agenda SECUREU will promote a theoretical integration of the ethnicity/migration and securitization fields. Although both fields have examined migration and ethnic minorities, they have developed largely independent from one another.

This network grant brings together researchers from both fields to generate new research, educate students and young researchers, produce policy briefs and create new synergies around these key issues.

More info can be found on their project description. 

The project's website is currently under development.