Extraterritorial Human Security

Abstract

Chapter 5 analyzes the bureaucracy set in place to manage the protection of emigrants’ human security. It identifies and examines the Centre de Securite et de Soutien (CDCS) as the key cosmonational agency responsible for coordinating intervention and managing local crises affecting the human security of French nationals abroad. The literature on human security, in contrast or in addition to state security, is reviewed to explain the expansion of services made available to the extraterritorial population. It examines the ways in which cosmonationalism manifests itself in the operation of the CDCS, also calling attention to the rise of cosmoeuropeanism in the area of human security. The relations of CDCS and the local embassy are assessed, along with the cosmonational contexts within which these occur. This chapter further shows the different forms that a crossborder cosmonational bureaucracy may embody and explains how they induce and sustain postdiasporization.