Revisiting Schengen: Europe and the emergence of a new culture of border control

Zaiotti, Ruben

doi:10.1080/15705850701204087

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“…The data also demonstrates that borders "rather than fixed lines, (…) are now seen as processes, practices, discourses, symbols, institutions or networks through which power works" (Johnson et al, 2011, p. 62). This framework supports both a State that cultivates social control and exclusion policies for some, as well as more open borders and greater mobility for the enemy, the 'monsters' others (Zaiotti, 2007;Bosworth and Guild, 2008;Bosworth, 2014). According to the comments, the political and social regime does not offer solutions.…”

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confidence: 93%

News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

Martins

2021

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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A higher level of mobility of people has marked the European Union (EU), with immigrants moving from one place to another, every year, looking for a better quality of life, often fleeing from war and poverty. In the wake of enlargement of the European Union, the United Kingdom (UK) experienced high inward migration. One of the main focuses of UK media coverage was immigration from Eastern European countries. The UK referendum on Brexit on 23 June 2016, was followed by an increase in hate crimes linked to migration issues and, subsequently, a media apparatus of toxic discourse and fear of the criminal ‘Other’. This paper aims to reveal how newspaper articles and personal comments written in response to these articles, represented creative and media-driven anxieties about ‘opening’ borders in the EU. The empirical sample builds on news media coverage of the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case, published in two UK newspapers—the Daily Mail and The Independent. Based on critical surveillance studies and cultural media studies, I elaborate on the notion of moral panic, dramatised by the media, which mobilises specific compositions of ‘otherness’ by constructing suspicion and criminalising inequality by particular social and ethnic groups and nationalities. I argue that the media portrays the dramatisation of transnational narratives of risk and (in)security, which redraws territorial borders and (re)define Britain’s global identity. The analysis shows how the news media in the Brexit vote continually raised and legitimised awareness related to the migration as a vehicle that enables the ‘folk-devil’ to cross borders. This context postulates an ideology that converges on a relationship of intransigence and criminal convictions, in the context of a politics of inclusion and exclusion. I conclude by emphasising how the media intersects different social and geographical spaces in which migration takes place. Media-constructed categories of suspicion targets have been previously created and ‘suspect communities’ have already been socially accepted, thereby confirming and reshaping understandings of their identities and communities.

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Section: Volatilitymentioning

confidence: 93%

News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

Martins

2021

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…Here, the abolishment of internal borders between the member states has facilitated the transformation of the European Union (then European Communities) into a territorial entity in need of protection and management of its internal order and external borders. Nonetheless, it is the gradual institutionalisation and Europeanisation of the internal security domain that has become the main vehicle for securitisation of migration in the EU (Neal, 2009;Zaiotti, 2007). In this regard, the Treaties and the Schengen acquis have become so-called "constitutional securitising moves", embedding migration-security continuum within the EU primary law, generating the key institutional and political frameworks for development of further securitising moves (Huysmans, 2006, pp.…”

Section: From Maastricht To Lisbon Tracing "Constitutional" Securitis...mentioning

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EU Migration-Security Continuum. Investigating Security Frames Before the “Migration Crisis”

Stępka

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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The chapter discusses historical development of the securitisation of migration at the EU level, outlining its different modes and venues. It discusses how the Schengen zone has become the seminal project for development of the EU border control regime reflected predominantly in the managerial approach to security practices and discourses towards migrants in the EU. It further the covers development of EU asylum policies, elaborating upon intertwining policy narratives of humanitarianism, illegality and bogus claims of asylum seekers in the EU. Lastly, the chapter discusses EU policies on detention and deportation, examining them as securitising practices of containment and control. In this way, the chapter unravels the complexity of the so-called migration-security continuum in the EU, discussing its historical and institutional development, indicating how the logics of human security, “exceptionality” and most notably risk management have become points of reference for framing of the “migration crisis”.

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“…The ‘open space’ of Schengen and the Freedom of Movement guaranteed by the EU has also been characterised as a ‘security risk’ and a ‘potential crime space’ (Jacobs and Blitsa, 2008; Parkin, 2011) requiring strengthened police co-operation. The tension between addressing commonly identified, mobile threats (such as terrorism, organised crime, and mobile violent or sexual criminals) and open borders has been much discussed (see Bigo, 1998; 2008; Hobbing 2011; Nanz, 1996; Stelfox, 2003; Zaiotti, 2007). This ‘potential crime space’ is largely managed by information exchange, monitoring and management across borders.…”

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Serious violent or sexual offenders travelling across European Union Borders: Ideological and ethical challenges of information exchange

Hilder

Kemshall

2016

European Journal of Probation

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The relative ease of international travel, coupled with open borders across much of the European Union provides capacity for some serious violent or sexual offenders to utilise these advancements to increase their opportunities to offend. In 2013, an EU-funded project reviewed existing information exchange systems and the challenges of collaborative working across EU Member States to manage such offenders. This article reviews key issues arising from that research, and a range of ideological, ethical and legal differences and constraints that impact upon the choices and actions of law enforcement and probation personnel.

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Revisiting Schengen: Europe and the emergence of a new culture of border control

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

EU Migration-Security Continuum. Investigating Security Frames Before the “Migration Crisis”

Serious violent or sexual offenders travelling across European Union Borders: Ideological and ethical challenges of information exchange

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