Collection of threats and security issues

This report analyses the issues, problems or threats (real or perceived) regarding current movements and processes of migration. A database/matrix has been set up based on the reports provided by partners of PERCEPTIONS project. The analysis of that database composed of 138 documents shows a list of 177 threats, real or perceived by the authors of the reports.
The list of existing threats and border security issues is based on prior research and reports of security practitioners, policymakers and civil society organisation. It presents a structured collection of such main threats/issues based on these secondary data. Based on the in-depth examination of these 138 entries, the analysis provided a database that analyses the documents and threats and classified them according to different items.
The importance of this report lies in analysing which threats are identified in prior research and reports by security practitioners, policymakers and civil society organisation. Those threats and risks affect different referent objects and could be related to a mismatch between expectations about and ‘reality’ in Europe. The reports represent mainly the perspective of host/destination countries as long as those documents are more abundant in the database. If the information is analysed with respect to the referent object, threats related to host countries amounted for nearly half of the total percentage.
This means that the conclusions we have reached are, in part, broadly the vision of the destination countries. This conclusion points to the need of the PERCEPTIONS project to assess the perspectives and narratives of countries which migrants transit through as well as of their countries of origin. In this sense, this report is also the view of the institutional actors (think tanks, policymakers, NGOs and security practitioners) that needs and will be complemented with the perspective of migrants, their perceptions and narratives, and other practitioners from different sectors, in PERCEPTIONS project.