Schengen Cooperation: What Scholars Make of It

Votoupalová, Markéta

doi:10.1080/08865655.2018.1457974

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“…The challenges to and intricacies of Schengen governance have recently attracted the attention of scholars well-anchored in the study of the EU's area of freedom, security, and justice (Bellanova & Glouftsios, 2022;Ceccorulli, 2019;Colombeau, 2019;Coman, 2019;De Somer, 2020;Lamour, 2019;Votoupalová, 2020). However, these only partially satisfy the desire to arrive at a more nuanced and varied account of the trajectory of this particularly sensitive area of European integration.…”

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Internal Rebordering in the European Union: Postfunctionalism Revisited

Gruszczak

2022

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The EU has been under severe strain as a free-travel area. The migration crisis of the mid-2010s and the current Covid-19 pandemic have exerted a negative impact on the freedom of movement in the EU and the undisturbed crossing of internal borders within the Schengen area. Direct effects and long-term consequences of the prolonged crisis have shown that the dynamics of integration, which are determined by spillover effects of transnational processes, are counterposed by a politicization of domestically-embedded issues of security governance. This assumption underpins the postfunctionalist approach to European integration proposed originally by Hooghe and Marks. The tendency towards longstanding derogations from the Schengen regime, termed “internal rebordering,” should be juxtaposed with efforts of the European Commission towards a full restoration of the Schengen area without controls at internal borders. The argument developed in this article holds that internal rebordering has been embedded in the logic of the EU as an area of freedom, security, and justice comprising the Schengen area as its territorial manifestation. The rebordering processes in the EU and in the Schengen area have questioned the principle of “constraining dissensus” underlaying the postfunctionalist approach.

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Internal Rebordering in the European Union: Postfunctionalism Revisited

Gruszczak

2022

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“…The existing empirical work on European border regions and CBC exclusively focus on quantifying the magnitude of border obstacles by using recently available data. This is a well-justified research orientation, particularly at a time when the spirit of open borders is strongly challenged (Votoupalová, 2020). In a way, border studies scholars try to show that the closing of borders would cost a lot not only to national economies in general but also to border regions specifically.…”

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The role of open borders and cross-border cooperation in regional growth across Europe

Basboga

2020

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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“…'Schengen'-scholarship started in the 90's, with a slight increase when the Schengen acquis became part of EU law. There were then two subsequent peaks in the quantity of research (Novotná 2018, p.4). First, between 2011, when the trigger was the so-called "Franco-Italian Affair" 21 and the subsequent Schengen Governance Package (Carrera et al 2011;Pascouau 2012;Peers 2013;Zaiotti 2013).…”

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Policing-Mobilities in the Border-Stripe

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The establishment of an area of "freedom of movement" without border control within the Schengen-area is deemed one of the major achievements of European integration. However, developments since 2015 have shown a renewed salience of internal borders. This is due, on the one hand, to the introduction and maintenance of temporary border control by several member states, which was justified as a response to unauthorised mobilities problematised as "secondary movements". On the other hand, also border-regions adjacent to internal borders have acquired an increased strategic importance. Particularly the European Commission advanced the recommendation to shift towards enhanced (national) border-area police-checks and police cooperation as an alternative to border control. Both the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and explicitly the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement (CISA) encourage bilateral police cooperation between member states, foreseeing particular measures for countries that share a common border. Various studies conducted in the 1990s engaged with initially informal, and increasingly formalised, forms of cooperation across borderregions. In current times, practices of cross-border police cooperation as well as of migration policing at internal borders constitute a substantial knowledge gap.In this dissertation I examine the intersection of cross-border police cooperation (CBPC) with the control of differential mobility rights within today's EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. I conceptualise and analyse CBPC as policing-mobilities in the border-strip. Grounded in empirical fieldwork with police officers, this study fills important research-gaps that persist with regards to a twofold inquiry: a) police cooperation at the scale of border-regions and b) the policing of mobilities at internal Schengen borders. Specifically, this study concentrates on three CBPC instruments: joint police centres or PCCCs, (joint) border-area patrols and bilateral simplified fasttrack readmissions. Some of these were also amongst the "best practices" and alternatives which since 2017 the Commission has recommended to enhance. Beyond findings of analytical relevance, this study allows one to critically engage with the envisaged border-area 'solutions'.In PART I, I place this dissertation at the crossroad of social-science and law within a multidisciplinary field of scholarly engagement. I outline the theoretical framework and methodological approach of a multisited research design. Rather than conducting a research that favours a focus on discourses and laws or on situated practices, I studied both elements and the interdependence between law-as-text and as-practice, aiming to get a grasp of large-scale processes not reducible to one empirical field-locale. In PART II, I draw attention towards the spatial-legal regimes that regulate CBPC and trace their emergence as institutionalised regimes of practices. I argue that they constitute the border-strip as spatial-legal condition of possibility xv...

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Schengen Cooperation: What Scholars Make of It

Cited by 9 publications

References 85 publications

Internal Rebordering in the European Union: Postfunctionalism Revisited

Internal Rebordering in the European Union: Postfunctionalism Revisited

The role of open borders and cross-border cooperation in regional growth across Europe

Policing-Mobilities in the Border-Stripe

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