Securitization and Risk at the EU Border: The Origins of FRONTEX*

Neal, Andrew W.

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“…However, as Neal (2009) notes, a closer analysis shows that FRONTEX was created not a result of this particular critical juncture, nor was it a result of securitization. Neal (2009) comments that FRONTEX was, in fact, created to respond to "the disintegration of a common EU response to migration, security and borders," with the terms "security" and "urgency" were all but missing within the discourse of the establishment of FRONTEX (p. 346).…”

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“…Created in 2005, FRONTEX is a Warsaw-based independent EU agency that works on the coordination of operational cooperation between EU member states to strengthen, as well as manage, the EU's external border and was thought to be a response to 9/11 (Boswell, 2007;Neal, 2009). However, as Neal (2009) notes, a closer analysis shows that FRONTEX was created not a result of this particular critical juncture, nor was it a result of securitization. Neal (2009) comments that FRONTEX was, in fact, created to respond to "the disintegration of a common EU response to migration, security and borders," with the terms "security" and "urgency" were all but missing within the discourse of the establishment of FRONTEX (p. 346).…”

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“…Securitization of migration involves extreme politicization and framing of migration as a security threat. This follows discursive activities or routinized practices such as surveillance and border controls (Balzacq 2010;Bigo 1994Bigo , 2000Bigo , 2008Bigo , 2009Leonard 2010;Neal 2009), which foster the belief that immigrants represent an existential threat to the state and its citizens. This allows the securitizing actor to argue the need for emergency measures to deal with migrants and justifies actions outside normal political procedure (Buzan, Waever et al, 1998, 25).…”

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Schengen area shaken: the impact of immigration-related threat perceptions on the European security community

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2016

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In light of the recent European refugee crisis, the article uses the concept of security community (SC), in order to explore the destabilizing impact of immigration-related threat perceptions on the Schengen Area. Theoretically, it is nourished by the will to support efforts by security community researchers to explore the challenges besetting security communities rather than just tracing their evolution. Viewed from a constructivist prism, the article describes how through a complex social process, immigration-related threat perceptions can trigger a security dilemma dynamic among SC states, undermining the SC's basic trust and common identity, and encouraging states to abandon cooperative norms for unilateral defensive practices. Empirically; we show how immigration-related threat perceptions are working against the Schengen regime by examining well-established evaluation indicators in the SC literature. Finally, two avenues for future research are suggested in considering how to surmount the negative dynamics: the first draws on existing desecuritization literature, the second builds on existing SC literature addressing the rehabilitation of collective identities and trust among an SC's members in times of crisis.

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“…This is the literature on the securitization of migration. See, inter alia, Didier Bigo (2008); Huysmans (2006) and Neal (2009). itself as 'an EU agency… created as a specialised and independent body tasked to coordinate the operational cooperation between Member States in the field of border security'. 3 It includes large corporations like Accenture that have made border management into a commodified service to be marketed within a global economy.…”

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The International Organization for Migration and the International Government of Borders

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Early debates often read globalization as a powerful tendency destined to make state borders less pertinent. Recent research has challenged this view by suggesting that globalization and (re-)bordering frequently advance hand in hand, culminating in a condition that might be described as 'gated globalism'. But somewhat neglected in this recent wave of research is the role that particular international agencies are playing in shaping the norms and forms that pertain to emergent regimes of border control -what we call the international government of borders. Focusing on the International Organization for Migration and its involvement in the promotion of what it calls better 'border management', this paper aims to partially redress this oversight. The IOM is interesting because it illustrates how the control of borders has become constituted as an object of technical expertise and intervention within programmes and schemes of international authority. Two themes are pursued. First, recent work on neoliberal governmentality is useful for illuminating the forms of power and subtle mechanisms of influence which chracterize the IOM's attempt to managerialize border policies in countries as different as Ethiopia, Serbia and Armenia. Second, the international government of borders comprises diverse and heterogeneous practices, ranging from the hosting of training seminars for local security and migration officials, to the promotion of schemes to purchase and install cutting-edge surveillance equipment. In such different ways one can observe in very material terms how the project of making borders into a problem of 'management' conflicts with a perception of borders as a site of social struggle and politics.

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Securitization and Risk at the EU Border: The Origins of FRONTEX*

Cited by 284 publications

References 18 publications

Constructing Fortress Europe: Third Country Nationals As Unwelcome Guests

Constructing Fortress Europe: Third Country Nationals As Unwelcome Guests

Schengen area shaken: the impact of immigration-related threat perceptions on the European security community

The International Organization for Migration and the International Government of Borders

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