It is important to recognize that the security system for migration does not apply solely to one particular category of migrants (e.g., “illegal” immigrants). Admittedly, some migrants categories are more ‘’affected’’ than others by a security lens. Nevertheless, this disparity must not conceal that securitization covers international migration as a whole—hence the need to gather knowledge in this field and analyze the role of rupture and continuity in the evolution of immigration policy, from both a domestic and international perspective.

Furthermore, migration is not in itself a question of security. Yet, binding migration and security together is not normatively nor politically neutral. According to Bourbeau’s research, characterizing migration as a threat to security not only legitimizes the use of measures that have serious consequences, but compels us to ponder the relationship between securitization of migration and other social questions—such as radicalization, crime and how we perceive it, gender and multiculturalism/interculturalism.