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Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Immigration and the Emergence of a European Threat Environment * The Maastricht Treaty: The Formalization of the Immigration/Security Nexus * Amsterdam and Beyond: Immigration and the Establishment of an AFSJ * Freedom, Mobility and Abjection: The Management of Immigration Risk in the AFSJ * Unmaking Security, Remaking Belonging * Conclusion: The EU as an Area of Security, Security and-- Security Introduction * Immigration and the Emergence of a European Threat Environment * The Maastricht Treaty: The Formalization of the Immigration/Security Nexus * Amsterdam and Beyond: Immigration and the Establishment of an AFSJ * Freedom, Mobility and Abjection: The Management of Immigration Risk in the AFSJ * Unmaking Security, Remaking Belonging * Conclusion: The EU as an Area of Security, Security and-- Security

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events - such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics - which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge