A Nexus Approach to the Responsibility of the European Border and Coast Guard: From Individual to Systemic Accountability

Gkliati, Mariana

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“…The idea that 'responsibility' needs to follow 'control' is not a radically new one among legal migration scholars (see e.g. Rijpma 2017, Fink 2018, Gkliati 2018, Moreno-Lax and Lemberg 2018, and it would be fruitful to try to move beyond this to consider some of the practicalities, gaps, inconsistences and potential unintended consequences as to what this might look like on the ground for people seeking asylum.…”

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‘Shifting Borders’ and Shifting Responsibility? Towards a More Just Model of Global Mobility MIM Working

Wærp¹

2022

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This working paper critically examines Ayelet Shachar’s (2020) concept of the ‘shifting border’ and the solutions she proposes to tackle this recent phenomenon, pointing out potential gaps, inconsistencies and unintended consequences of letting legal responsibility follow states’ ‘shifting borders’. Instead, the paper argues for the need to deterritorialize the right to asylumin order to prevent states from retracting back from or shifting out their responsibilities for refugees and migrants, and to question and ultimately relax our current state-imposed mobility controls which have come to be largely taken for granted, even among migration and border scholars.

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‘Shifting Borders’ and Shifting Responsibility? Towards a More Just Model of Global Mobility MIM Working

Wærp¹

2022

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“…However, this would only be partially correct. In reality, multiple European Union agencies (such as FRONTEX, EASO) are in charge of these camps in Lesvos as well as humanitarian actors and international organizations (Gkliati 2018). Furthermore, local Greek communities living in these hotspot islands would also be involved, since their lives are fundamentally…”

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Border Deaths

Sinatti¹,

Vos²

2019

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This book is an outcome of the conference, Border deaths and migration policies: state and non-state approaches, that took place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 14-15 June 2018 and involved over 100 participants, many of whom went on to (co-)author the chapters herein. The conference was organised by Thomas Spijkerboer and Paolo Cuttitta as part of the research project, Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants, hosted by the Amsterdam Centre

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“…Legal scholars have stressed issues of human rights, access to asylum at EUrope's sea borders, and accountability for violations in the "multi-actor settings" in which Frontex operates in (Fink, 2018;Gkliati, 2018;Moreno-Lax, 2018;Rijpma, 2017). Focusing on the US-Mexico border, Williams (2016) demonstrates how the US Border Patrol has promoted a discourse of "humanitarian border enforcement" that casts more border controls as the remedy to migrant deaths rather than as part of its cause, resulting in a "safety/security nexus".…”

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“…This de-coupling of risk analysis from decision-making in the field of EUropean external(ized) border control facilitates the dispersal of accountability and blame shifting between the EU, member states, and Frontex(Fink, 2018;Gkliati, 2018;Moreno-Lax, 2018;Pallister-Wilkins, 2011;Rijpma, 2017).…”

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The Age of Frontex: Banal Securitization and its Normalization in EUropean External(ized) Border Control

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This dissertation examines how migration has become securitized in what I term the field of EUropean external(ized) border control and how this securitization has become increasingly normalized. It does so by focusing on the role of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency’s (Frontex) risk analysis reports in constructing migration as a security threat. Although framed as an apolitical and objective overview of the situation at the external(ized) border, I conceptualize these reports as constituting a particular form of knowledge with securitized ontological and epistemological assumptions, which preclude alternative framings of irregularized migration. By drawing on critical discourse analysis, I interrogate how this border knowledge securitizes migration in both banal and explicit ways, normalizes crises, and portrays border control as humanitarian. Interviews with civil society actors, border guards, Frontex, and European Commission officials were conducted to analyze how they resist or reproduce this securitization, which is taken as indicative of its normalization. The dissertation aims to question the taken-for-grantedness of treating unwanted migration as a security issue in this field and draws attention to its harmful effects for refugees and migrants who try to cross increasingly inaccessible borders.

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A Nexus Approach to the Responsibility of the European Border and Coast Guard: From Individual to Systemic Accountability

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

‘Shifting Borders’ and Shifting Responsibility? Towards a More Just Model of Global Mobility MIM Working

‘Shifting Borders’ and Shifting Responsibility? Towards a More Just Model of Global Mobility MIM Working

Border Deaths

The Age of Frontex: Banal Securitization and its Normalization in EUropean External(ized) Border Control

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