The intimate relationship between security, effectiveness, and legitimacy: a new look at the Schengen compensatory measures

Pedersen, Morten Jarlbæk

doi:10.1080/09662839.2015.1014808

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“…While most authors employed critical perspectives, a few leaned on the idea that, despite the lack of transparency, the digitalisation of border control also offers a certain measurability. In these publications, EURODAC is evaluated as a tool to implement the Dublin Regulation and can, as such, be both efficient and inefficient (Dóczi, 2013;Pedersen, 2015).…”

Section: Fundamental Rights and Discriminationmentioning

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Border Reconfiguration, Migration Governance, and Fundamental Rights: A Scoping Review of EURODAC as a Research Object

Bredström

Krifors

Mešić

2022

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This article scrutinises the European Asylum Dactyloscopy Database (EURODAC) as a research object for social science. EURODAC serves as an important part of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) infrastructure by registering dig‐ italised fingerprints of asylum seekers, which facilitates the allocation of responsibility following the Dublin Regulation. In this article, we explore the role of EURODAC from its implementation in 2003 until April 2021 through a scoping review that maps and analyses existing social science research in the field. In total, 254 scholarly publications—identified in Scopus, Academic Search Complete, and Web of Science—were reviewed. The article seeks to answer three research questions: What is the accumulated knowledge within social science research on EURODAC? What gaps and trends exist in this research? What are the possible implications of this knowledge, gaps, and trends for other areas of the CEAS such as asylum evaluations and reception of asylum seekers? Based on a qualitative thematic analysis, our review shows that research on EURODAC can be divided into three broad categories: research that focuses on the reconfiguration of borders; research that focuses on migration governance and resistance; and research that emphasises fundamental rights and discrimination. In our final discussion, we highlight the lack of ethnographic studies, of gender and intersectional perspectives, and of in‐depth studies on national legal frameworks including asylum evaluations and reception practices across the EU. The article concludes that social science needs to address the socio‐political underpinnings of EURODAC and acknowledges its centrality to all areas of the CEAS.

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Section: Fundamental Rights and Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Reconfiguration, Migration Governance, and Fundamental Rights: A Scoping Review of EURODAC as a Research Object

Bredström

Krifors

Mešić

2022

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“…The European security studies scholar Pedersen (2015) has distinguished between two modes of ordering integration through data information systems that differ regarding the role of state autonomy and state power: vertical Europeanization and horizontal Europeanization. We make use of this distinction to illustrate the implications deriving from centralized or decentralized architectures for information systems.…”

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“…More particularly, we propose to combine border studies scholarship, with its focus on transforming nation-state autonomy, and studies that have explored the processes of European (dis)integration (Misa & Schot, 2005) with a sensitivity to the role of technology. Centralized database systems mostly used for the purpose of migration control have been widely addressed in the literature with regard to their transformative effects on understanding borders and remaking Europe via vertical Europeanization (Pedersen, 2015). However, horizontal Europeanization, traditionally more common in police collaboration and law enforcement, and its transformative effect on bioborders, remains understudied.…”

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A Brief History of the Evolution of Biometrics and Biometric Database Systems Crossing Borders in EU Law Enforcement

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Granja

Machado

2020

Modes of Bio-Bordering

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This chapter provides an outline of the historical evolution of biometric databases in the European Union and explores how these developments reconfigure notions of borders within this region of the world. This sets the scene for understanding how the melange of biometrical technologies and digitization has reconfigured how we think about the mobility of people, how modes of surveillance relate to human rights and ethical issues, and what modes of regulation are being enforced. This brief historical summary covers the evolution of a range of diverse biometric technologies and database systems and their use in the context of migration control and law enforcement. Furthermore, the chapter contextualizes why the Prüm system, a decentralized database system designed to facilitate the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA data amongst EU Member States to control criminality and terrorism, is of relevance to the concept of bioborders.

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“…2 (2010): 147-167. 26 Bigo, D. (1996) Polices en réseaux: L'expérience européenne, Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1996;Morten Jarlbaek Pedersen (2015) The intimate relationship between security, these compensatory measures seems to echo the more general sense of unease around immigration in Europe that can be traced back to the 1980s when immigration -and in particular asylum issues -started to become more and more politicized. It is from this moment onwards that migration is started to be identified as being one of the main factors weakening tradition and social homogeneity.…”

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10. Euroskepticism, nationalism, and the securitization of migration in the Netherlands

2020

Crimmigrant Nations

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Section III Chapter 11 Euroscepticism, Nationalism and the Securitization of Migration in the NetherlandsMaartje van der Woude  "The West is suffering from an autoimmune disorder (…) Part of our organism-an important part: our immune system, that which should protect us-has turned against us. We're being weakened, undermined, surrendered in every respect. Malevolent, aggressive elements are being smuggled into our social body in unprecedented numbers, while true causes and consequences are kept hidden. Police reports about violent incidents at refugee centers are not made public. The attorney general's office looks the other way when it runs into sharia courts."-Thierry Baudet, party leader of Forum for Democracy while addressing his party's congress in January 2017. Not just another "crisis"These past two decades the European Union has been hit by two so-called "crises": the financial or "Euro" crisis of 2008 and the 2015-2016 migration crisis. Whereas both crises have fed into euro-sceptic sentiments, it is safe to say that the response to the financial crisis at least seemed to be somewhat coordinated and uniform with EU member states coming together to reinforce the monetary union through powerful new instruments and sacrificed control over their banking systems to save the euro. The opposite has been true with regard to EU member states' response to the so-called migration crisis. Driven by a logic of renationalization, combined with the rise of xenophobia and identity politics, member states chose to sacrifice part of the functionality of the Schengen Agreement, also known as the Schengen acquis, rather than limit their national decision-making on migration and asylum.By falling back on national measures, such as border controls or fences, to contain the inflows of migrants and asylum seekers, member states chose to limit and monitor the cross-border  This work is part of the 5-year research project "Getting to the Core of Crimmigration" (project number 452-16-003), which is financed through the VIDI research scheme by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The author is project coordinator and principal investigator.mobility of people and pronouncements became commonplace asserting that the Schengen Agreement -widely considered to be one of the paramount achievements of European integration -was effectively dead. 1 , 2 As Kmak describes it, a pressing urge was felt to being able to distinguish between "the Good", "the Bad" and "the Ugly" immigrant. 3 The group of migrants entering the European Union since 2015 would fall into the latter category: asylum seekers or undocumented migrants, a thoroughly unwelcome group of visitors "lumped together under one label, shunned by EU countries, which try to deter them by, among others, building physical obstacles at borders and introducing controls on their territory". 4This lumping together of groups of migrants falls in line with the lumping together of migration and crime both in discourse, laws and practice. This process is also known as ...

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The intimate relationship between security, effectiveness, and legitimacy: a new look at the Schengen compensatory measures

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Border Reconfiguration, Migration Governance, and Fundamental Rights: A Scoping Review of EURODAC as a Research Object

Border Reconfiguration, Migration Governance, and Fundamental Rights: A Scoping Review of EURODAC as a Research Object

A Brief History of the Evolution of Biometrics and Biometric Database Systems Crossing Borders in EU Law Enforcement

10. Euroskepticism, nationalism, and the securitization of migration in the Netherlands

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