Philippe Bourbeau

A great deal has been written in the International Relations literature about the role of resilience in our social world. One of the central debates in the scholarship concerns the relationship between resilience and resistance, which several scholars consider to be one of mutual exclusivity. For many theorists, an individual or a society can either be resilient or resistant, but not both. In this article, we argue that this understanding of the resilience– resistance connection suffers from three interrelated problems: it treats resilience and resistance as binary concepts rather than processes; it presents a simplistic conception of resilient subjects as apolitical subjects; and it eschews the " transformability " aspect of resilience. In a bid to resolve these issues, the article advocates for the usefulness of a relational approach to the processes of resilience and resistance and suggest an approach that understands resilience and resistance as engaged in mutual assistance rather than mutual exclusion. The case of the Palestinian national liberation movement illustrates our set of arguments.

People are undoubtedly on the move. The International Organisation for Migration estimated the number of international migrants worldwide at 214 million in 2013. One out of every thirty-three people in the world is an international migrant. At the same time, nation-states around the globe are cracking down on migration for security reasons. International migration is perceived, in some eyes, as an existential security threat in the post-Cold War era.
The Handbook on Migration and Security provides a state-of-the-art analysis of the critically important links between migration and security in a globalising world. This unique handbook has two objectives: first, to explore the growing diversity of approaches, paradigms, questions, and methods developed to study the migration-security nexus; second, to initiate a multidisciplinary dialogue about the ontological, epistemological, explanatory, and normative aspects of the links between migration and security in the social sciences and beyond. Drawing contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this volume examines how the securitisation of migration is studied across several disciplines and issue areas.

Ce chapitre est divisé en trois parties. En premier lieu, nous passerons en revue les différentes applications de la résilience en relations internationales afin de mettre en lumière le sous-développement de ce concept et la nécessité de pousser plus loin une analyse de la résilience en relations internationales. Nous proposerons par la suite un cadre d’analyse en trois points de la résilience. La dernière section de ce chapitre offrira une typologie de la résilience en distinguant la résilience afin de maintenir le statu quo, la résilience en tant que modifications marginales et la résilience entendue comme renouvèlement.

In recent years, a great deal has been written in the scholarly literature about the role of resilience in our social world. This scholarship has sparked vivid theoretical debates in psychology, criminology, social work, and political geography about the nature of resilience and how scholars should go about studying it. Resilience is increasingly making its entries into International Relations (IR) literature. This chapter provides a brief introduction to how the concept of resilience has been defined and deployed within social sciences, suggests a particular definition of resilience, and outlines a terrain of debate and research agendas.

In recent years, a great deal has been written in the scholarly literature about the role of resilience in our social world. This scholarship has sparked vivid theoretical debates in psychology, criminology, social work, and political geography about the nature of resilience and how scholars should go about studying it. Yet, International Relations and security studies have been relatively absent from the vibrant discussion. The term is employed but rarely unpacked, let alone theoretically analyzed. This chapter outlines some necessary steps of convergence, enabling a coherent framework for a resiliencist approach to the study of the securitization process. The bulk of the chapter suggests distinguishing between three types of resilience, discusses the added-value of the approach, and illustrates the set of arguments with the case of the securitization of migration in France and in Canada.

Securitization is one of the most dynamic fields of research in today’s security studies. This article (a) examine the various definitions developed by scholars to make sense of the phenomenon, (b) presents the two logics upon which most of the research is conducted (i.e. the logic of exception and the logic of routine), and (c) identifies avenues of research that will most likely drive future research in this field.