Transparency and Proportionality in the Schengen Information System and Border Control Co-operation

Deportation, smart borders and mobile citizens: using digital methods and traditional police activities to deport EU citizens

“…Police practices at the EU border are anticipated to merge towards a common structure that makes use of the large-scale data and control technologies used in managing border security. Karanja (2008) teases out how data use for border control is limited by national data protection laws, and thus the Schengen system cannot be used as much as international police organizations would initially have intended. The Schengen system emphasizes the shift from national authority over mobile subjects towards international mechanisms for large-scale data analysis.…”

Desafíos y logros de la política migratoria de la UE

“…Each person who applies for a visa has to give fingerprints and a photo. This helps to protect travellers from identity fraud, to detect the first Member State where an asylum seeker has entered and also the detection of possible criminals (European Union, 2008;Karanja, 2008;Vermeulen & De Bondt, 2015, p. 98).…”