Globalization, security and exclusion

Summary: Argues that the post-facto security justifications for migration controls since 9-11 serve as a convenient smokescreen for a pre-existing strategy whose primary purpose is to perpetuate the increasing divide between rich and poor, both across and within international borders. Furthermore, international security discourse has made it easier for governments to undermine asylum systems as a humanitarian exception to the general rule of segregating the privileged and the exploited.