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securitization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈkjʊəɹɪtʌɪzeɪʃən/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English security Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English securitize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English securitization From securitize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The fact or process of securitizing assets; the conversion of loans into securities, usually in order to sell them on to other investors.
   • Securitization became a fee-based business. […] The logic of private-label securitization was mass production, and new mortgages had to be fed into this machine constantly to sustain it. 2020, Katharina Pistor, “4: Minting Debt”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of convincing a relevant audience to treat a topic as a matter of security (regardless of whether it constitutes an actual threat), thus justifying the use of extraordinary measures.
   • […] although the securitization of migration can be observed in both Canada and France, […] 2011, Philippe Bourbeau, The Securitization of Migration: A Study of Movement and Order, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 126:
   • The increased surveillance and securitization of occupied Ukraine is likely intended to encourage self-censorship and facilitate Russian occupation authorities' efforts to prosecute perceived anti-Russian sentiment. 2025 April 21, Karolina Hird, “Russian Occupation Update, April 21, 2025”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:
   • The emphasis on the securitization of immigration actually began before September 11 and has resulted in policy change towards criminalizing undocumented immigrants in both the United States and Europe. 2009, Judith Ann Warner, Battleground Immigration: M-Z, Greenwood, →ISBN:
   • Thus, securitization is the process where issues turn into matters of security through political intervention; these 'security matters' are then taken outside the boundaries of normal politics and the mainstream 'rules of the game' and are subsequently treated as special kinds of politics or beyond politics, therefore potentially justifying actions that fall out of the ordinary political procedures (Buzan et al. 1998: 23-24). 2010, Thierry Balzacq, Understanding Securitisation Theory:
   • Use of the TP/E metaphor plays a significant role in this context, since it may be interpreted as a deliberate 'act of securitization' [3] aiming at moving the climate change issue from the domain of ordinary politics to the domain of 'security politics', […] 2012, H. J. S. Fernando, Z.B. Klaić, J.L. McCulley, National Security and Human Health Implications of Climate Change, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 46:
   • Nonetheless, in the case of climate change, securitization is appropriate and necessary: because this genuinely is an existential threat to all major states; […] 2020, Anatol Lieven, Climate Change and the Nation State: The Case for Nationalism in a Warming World, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 7:
   • The strength of the belief generated what Buzan terms a securitization effect , whereby irrespective of whether or not a material threat exists, something is constructed as a threat, with this understanding being accepted by a wide and/or specifically relevant audience. 2009, Amnon Aran, Israel's Foreign Policy Towards the PLO: The Impact of Globalization:
   • 2004, Kristof Tamas, Mapping Study on International Migration, Inst for Future Studies The negative side-effects of securitization of migration have, however, become exacerbated as many Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere have experienced heightened scrutiny and disbelief while travelling and in everyday life.

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Translations (9)

ga urrúsú (process of securitizing assets) · de Verbriefung (process of securitizing assets) · sv värdepapperisering (process of securitizing assets) · es titulización (process of securitizing assets) · fr titrisation (process of securitizing assets) · ca titulització (process of securitizing assets) · pl sekurytyzacja (process of securitizing assets) · it cartolarizzazione (process of securitizing assets) · fi arvopaperistaminen (process of securitizing assets)