The EU is developing a border management strategy aiming at an “integrated and global
response" to the challenges posed by the phenomenon of irregular immigration through the …

Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of
security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political …

Since the beginning of the turbulent twentieth century the changes, both in location and
function, of European frontiers have been dramatic. The old multinational empires in Europe …

The goal of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union's recently
launched initiative towards its 'near abroad', is “to avoid new dividing lines across the …

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH QUESTION AND THE AIM OF THE STUDY 1. 1
INTRODUCTION In this Introductory Chapter, a first exploration of the subject of this study …

More than 30 years after its birth, the Schengen area of free movement is under siege in
Europe: new barriers are being erected along land borders, military assets are increasingly …

Mit der Europäischen Grenz-und Küstenwachagentur Frontex hat die Europäische Union
erstmalig eine uniformierte und bewaffnete Polizeieinheit geschaffen. Bernd Kasparek legt …

This study accounts for the emergence of a supranational biometric control regime in
Europe. The empirical focus lies on the institutionalization of Eurodac, an automated …

In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-
century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores …

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht
engages with two of its primary building sites–the European Border Surveillance System …