Borderwork beyond Inside/Outside? Frontex, the Citizen–Detective and the War on Terror

Polymorphic borders

“…In the United States, scholars have analysed the intermingling of criminal justice and immigration policing (Coleman, 2007;Martin, 2015); interior immigration enforcement resulting in detention and deportation (Coleman, 2009;Hiemstra, 2013;Mountz, Coddington, Catania, & Loyd, 2013); devolution of immigration inspections to local agencies (Varsanyi, Lewis, Provine, & Decker, 2012) and risk-based profiling and financial surveillance (Amoore, 2013;De Goede, 2012). In the European Union, migration and border policies have produced complex spatial dynamics: the bounding of Europe's Schengen Area (Prokkola, 2013;van Houtum, 2010); simultaneous freeing of internal mobility for EU citizens and 'hardening' of external boundaries (Huysmans, 2000;Vaughan-Williams, 2008); the harmonization of border and immigration controls as a condition of EU admission; Good Neighbor Agreements with non-EU members tying aid to immigration and border policing requirements (Casas-Cortes, Cobarrubias, & Pickles, 2013); and the expansion of long-term detention as a mobility control practice (Gill, 2009;Schuster, 2005). In Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and East Asia, critical inquiry has included well-documented transit zones (Collyer, 2012;Ferrer-Gallardo & Albet-Mas, 2013); externalized detention centres (Bialasiewicz, 2012;Mountz, 2011a); and the criminalization of detainees (Crush, 1999;Mainwaring, 2012) and deported people (Zilberg, 2011).…”

How EU Capacity Bargains Strengthen States: Migration and Border Security in South-East Europe

“…The scenario was stopping a sudden massive influx of illegal immigrants along the 'Balkan route'. Border guards from 20 member states participated in an exercise to test the possibility of reinforcing a member state's response capacity in exceptional circumstances (Euractiv 2010;FRONTEX 2009;House of Lords 2008;Neal 2009;Vaughan-Williams 2008). Similarly, RABIT teams cooperated with the Greek authorities to police the GreeceTurkey border between November 2010 and March 2011.…”

(Re)locating the border: Pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening of migrants to the UK

“…The changing conceptions of sovereign borders has been theorised within the scholarly literature on the spaces of security (Salter, 2004;Adey, 2004Adey, , 2009Amoore, 2006;Vaughan-Williams, 2008;Amoore and Hall, 2009;Philo, 2012). For example, Philo has drawn attention to the existence of 'highly uneven and entangled geographies of security and insecurity' across 'a range of spatial scales' including homes, nation states and modes of travel (2012: 1).…”