Fortress Europe? – Controlling Illegal Immigration

Albrecht, Hans-Jörg

doi:10.1163/15718170220519506

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“…Especially the external border is a clear dividing line between "them" and "us" and defines which territory is European and which is not European. A new common external border became needed to protect the entire Union (Harvey 2000;Geddes 2001) and the external border have been increasingly policed (Albrecht 2002), representing a clear conception of hard territoriality, despite its full implementation. Concerns about the safety of the Union rose quickly in the 1990's.…”

Section: Eu's "New Territoriality"mentioning

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Myths of territory and external borders in the EU’s contemporary idea and Europe in the Middle Ages

Vitale

2016

FGSoE

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The European spatial development policy discourse has recently taken a “territorial” character, especially after the migrant crisis. Even if the terminology regarding this policy field remains ambiguous, territory, or territoriality, has become de facto an increasingly prevalent notion in the discourse on the organization of “European” (i.e. EU’s) space. In fact, the notion of territoriality and the prevalent “territorial” discourse produced an evident eclipse of the widespread notion of “European space” that had been developed in the early 1990s. Basically, the spatial predominant conception of the EU contributes to an emergence of a sharpened territorial building of the European space. The idea of both territorial cohesion and territorial continuity provides relevant insights into the notion of territoriality in the “European discourse” and consequently clearly shows how are accepted the tools of hard bordering (as policies and practices) and the sharp inside/outside dichotomy, typical of a “Westphalian memory” and of an use of territory as support for a unified political unit. Due to this pragmatic notion of territoriality, the idea of the EU as a “non-Westphalian new empire”, characterized by softening of borders and sharing of political power across multiple and multilevel politics, became at least unrealistic. On the contrary, Europe has always been distinguished by its openness to the rest of the world. It has never been a clearly demarcated continent or a fixed bordered entity and it has always been characterized by shifting spatialities of politics. The Middle Ages in Europe were characterized by overlapping, divided authority structures and often contentious jurisdictions, without territorial containments and a clear notion of the border. The comprehension of the transnational dimension opens new avenues of research and offers new modes of understanding.

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Section: Eu's "New Territoriality"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Myths of territory and external borders in the EU’s contemporary idea and Europe in the Middle Ages

Vitale

2016

FGSoE

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“…Most existing discussions of EU migration policy towards states and regions outside the EU emphasise the perceived threat of inmigration to 'Fortress Europe' as the driving policy concern (Albrecht 2002;Caviedes, 2004;Gebrewold-Tochalo, 2007;Geddes, 1999Geddes, , 2012Luedkte, 2009). This 'fortress' or 'migration as threat' policy perspective is inward looking and control oriented in its strategic outcomes, and inherently unlikely to command sympathy from migrant-sending states in the south.…”

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The EU-ACP migration and development relationship

Crush

2015

Migration and Development

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In the 1990s, cooperation between north and south on the governance of global migration seemed highly unlikely. Nation states in the north believed that their territorial sovereignty was under threat from irregular migration from the south, and states in the south argued that their development prospects were being undermined by a crippling 'brain drain' to the north. Since 2000, international migration has moved to the top of the global governance and development agenda, and a whole range of bilateral and multilateral partnerships have taken shape. One of the less remarked-upon partnerships is the migration relationship between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). This paper charts the evolution of this relationship over the last decade, arguing that it was enabled by five major features of migration and development discourse on which member states of the EU and the ACP could agree. The reasons for the focus on South-South, rather than South-North, migration in programming on migration and development are also explored.

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“…The creation of a single space triggered a wish to demarcate and border the European political space and entity (Islam, 1994, p. 38). A new common external border became needed to protect the entire Union (Geddes, 2001;Harvey, 2000) and the external borders have been increasingly policed (Albrecht, 2002), representing a clear conception of hard territoriality. Concerns about the safety of the Union rose very quickly in the 1990s.…”

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The Contemporary EU's Notion of Territoriality and External Borders

Vitale

2011

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The predominant spatial conception of the EU contributes to an evident emergence of a sharpened territorial building of the European space. By all evidence the idea of both the territorial cohesion and territorial continuity shows how relevant the notion of territoriality in the ‘European discourse’ is and consequently how accepted the instrument of hard and closed border and the sharp inside/outside dichotomy are. Due to this pragmatic notion of territoriality, the idea of the EU as a ‘non-Westphalian new empire’ (according to the ‘neo-medieval paradigm’) became at least unrealistic. Its borders are getting more territorial, physical and visible. Hard border policies and practices on the Eastern and Western Balkan borders mirror the existence of a de facto barrier and of a deep ‘Westphalian memory’ in the way of using the territory as support of political unity.

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Fortress Europe? – Controlling Illegal Immigration

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Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Myths of territory and external borders in the EU’s contemporary idea and Europe in the Middle Ages

Myths of territory and external borders in the EU’s contemporary idea and Europe in the Middle Ages

The EU-ACP migration and development relationship

The Contemporary EU's Notion of Territoriality and External Borders

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