Throughout history, border security has been framed in many different views and perspectives. Border security is socially constructed and have great impact to the state and the people because it identifies the significance of the border in particular areas. Recent reports about border security have shown the impact to other issues like terrorism, illegal immigrants, human smuggling, transnational crime and drug trafficking. This dissertation taking into account a number of key findings from previous border security reports and journal articles together with the needs of the current research, to identify and analyze the main issues consistently reported in border security discourses. These included making the criteria of border security perspective more relevant to the current research by supporting the analysis with academic research and dividing the border security perspective into various categories. This dissertation utilized data from previous research, article journal and reports from different borders across the region in order to obtain a set of qualitative data. This study concluded that scholars construct multiple frames of border security and the main issues consistently reported in border security discourses are illegal immigrants, terrorism and drug trafficking.
