In the context of the 'global war on terror', the issue of security has come to affect more and more intimate elements of people's everyday lives. This is the starting point of this interdisciplinary collection, which focuses on how the line between security and insecurity is negotiated through changing concepts of 'community' and 'citizenship'.

Introduction PART I: COMMUNITY COHESION Governing the Social and the Problem of the 'Stranger'; G.Hughes (In)security and Community Relations: Vulnerability and the Protests at the Holy Cross Girls Primary School in Belfast; C.Gilligan Love Thy Neighbour: Change and Insecurity in Neighbourly Relations; A.Buonfino PART II: MEDIATED COMMUNITIES Terrorist Threat, Freedom, and Politics in Europe; A.Tsoukala Precarious Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Media and Social Insecurity; M.Gillespie & B.O'Loughlin An 'Ordinary' Couple. Samantha Lewthwaite, Jermaine Lindsay, and the Securitization of Community; P.Noxolo PART III: CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM LAW Mobility and Identity: India, the United States, and Cross-border Flows in a Time of Terrorism; K.Sasikumar Unease About Strangers: Leveraging Anxiety as the Basis for Policy; D.Flynn How to do Things With Security Post-9/11; T.Kostakopoulous Conclusion

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