Monika Kabata is a PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer at Department of Politics and International Relations of Nottingham Trent University. Her doctoral research investigates the merging of the counter-terrorism, migration and border control policies in the European Union. Her research interests touch on both Security Studies and European Studies, and include securitisation theory, Critical Discourse Analysis and the EU internal and external security policies – especially in the context of migration and counter-terrorism – as well as Poland.