Smartening border security in the European Union: An associational inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Jeandesboz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union

ICTs and Border Security Policies in the United States and the European Union

2011 ◽  
pp. 373-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Shields
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Management Regime

ICT-related initiatives have dominated the border security strategies of the United States and the European Union in recent years. One set of surveillance systems fortifies the borderline. Another set is creating new frontiers away from the traditional boundary. The objectives of this chapter are to provide a detailed mapping and critical assessment of this two-pronged approach. With respect to the assessment, two arguments are made. First, there are good reasons to believe the approach is not enabling the authorities to deter identified border threats. Second, the approach is contributing to a border management regime that is having an increasingly divergent impact on the mobility and life chances of different groups and populations. In conclusion, it is suggested the inefficacy of the approach is due to contradictions and blind spots embedded in policy maker’s approaches to security issues. Remarks are offered as to why US and EU decision makers emphasize the role of ICTs as they seek to reconstitute their respective borders.

scholarly journals SECURITIZATION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE AT SEA: THE RESPONSE TO BOAT MIGRATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OFFSHORE AUSTRALIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ghezelbash ◽  
Violeta Moreno-Lax ◽  
Natalie Klein ◽  
Brian Opeskin
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractThis article compares the law and practice of the European Union and Australia in respect to the search and rescue (SAR) of boat migrants, concluding that the response to individuals in peril at sea in both jurisdictions is becoming increasingly securitized. This has led to the humanitarian purpose of SAR being compromised in the name of border security. Part I contrasts the unique challenge posed by SAR operations involving migrants and asylum seekers, as opposed to other people in distress at sea. Part II analyses the relevant international legal regime governing SAR activities and its operation among European States and in offshore Australia. Part III introduces the securitization framework as the explanatory paradigm for shifting State practice and its impact in Europe and Australia. It then examines the consequences of increasing securitization of SAR in both jurisdictions and identifies common trends, including an increase in militarization and criminalization, a lack of transparency and accountability, developments relating to disembarkation andnon-refoulement, and challenges relating to cooperation and commodification.

From Humanitarian Rescue to Border Security: Managing Migration in the Central Mediterranean

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-485
Author(s):  
Gemma Marolda Gloninger
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Central Mediterranean ◽  
Humanitarian Principle

Abstract While images of boats in distress, overflowing with migrants in the Central Mediterranean, flash on television screens and front pages of Italian and European newspapers, search and rescue (SAR) missions continue to draw attention. This article takes a look at migratory flows across the Central Mediterranean from 2012 to 2018 and focuses on the response of governmental, inter-governmental, and non-governmental actors rescuing lives at sea. Using aggregate data on migrants’ sea arrivals and deaths as well as official documents from the UNHRC, the European Union, Italy’s Ministry of Interior, and NGOs, this study investigates 1) how different actors have responded to migratory flows across the Central Mediterranean, and 2) how actors’ narratives and response have impacted the situation at sea. The study finds that, although all three actors act on the humanitarian principle ‘to save lives,’ their narratives and response diverge as the intensity of sea arrivals persists.

scholarly journals Saving Lives at Sea: Security, Law and Adverse Effects

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tugba Basaran
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Third Party ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Criminal Sanctions ◽  
Strait Of Sicily ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
Security Concerns

In the wake of recent shipwrecks at the Strait of Sicily, the European Union and its Member States have come under renewed pressure to address rescue at sea. Saving lives at sea is not simply a question of enhancing eu rescue efforts, however, but requires eliminating third party sanctions that significantly impede the proper functioning of the international rescue regime. This article focuses on anti-smuggling laws and related instruments and their thorny relation to humanitarian acts. To improve rescue efforts at sea, as a first step all humanitarian acts need to be exempted from criminal sanctions (including the eu Directive 2002/90/ec). This needs to be accompanied by efforts to desecuritize rescue, separating rescue from border security concerns.

Droga Polski do Schengen – osiągnięcia i wyzwania w zakresie zmiany systemu ochrony granicy zewnętrznej UE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Ryszard Suduł
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Basic Objective ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Eu

Author analyses in the article the problem of functioning of the external borders of the Republic of Poland in the Schengen area. The text frames the analysis in the context of the political science. The author discusses the changes in state system of protection of the state border of the Republic of Poland resulting from the integration of the Republic of Poland with the European Union, in particular with the Schengen area. The basic objective of the article is the analysis of the scope and type of organisational and administrative-logistic undertakings in the field of border protection after Poland’s participation in the Schengen Area. The analysis is started with characterisation of changes in the system of management of the state border and the ways of functioning of border services in connection with the accession to the EU were characterised. EU requirements for strengthening border infrastructure and the system of cooperation between institutions responsible for border security were also analysed. As a result, the accession of the Republic of Poland to the Schengen area entailed a complete change in the strategy of managing the state borders.

scholarly journals Some Features of the Development of Legal Regulation of Ensuring the Border Security of the Member States of the European Union

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Kudinov ◽  
◽  
Elena G. Mukhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States

The article examines the peculiarities of the development of legal regulation of ensuring the border security of the Member States of the European Union on the external and internal sections of the state border; highlights the main forms of interaction and powers of the European Border and Coast Guard Service (hereinafter the Agency, Frontex, ESSPO) in the area under consideration; shows the main problems in ensuring the border security of the European Union.

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