Policing the borderlands of Europe: a study of transnational policing

How is a border surveillance system created? What kind of data gets collected, who has access and why, and what is the potential impact on the individual populations involved?

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About the project

This project will map the various migration control strategies on the European level within the so-called ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’. The task of border policing is becoming an increasingly transnational activity, exemplified first and foremost by the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The project aims, amon other, to study the recently established European external border control agency, Frontex. It examines Frontex from the perspective of police sociology and looks into how it differs from and resembles traditional forms of national and transnational policing in terms of organisational objectives and police culture.

The project also examines the existing and the planned extension of the EU border control databases (Entry / Exit system, Eurosur, Eurodac, VIS, Schengen II). Legal aspects of their regulation will be addressed, together with policy documents and practitioners' views. One of the objectives is to map the processes leading towards the creation of a surveillance system and to examine the interplay between the objectives of crime control and migration control, as well as their potential impact on the individual populations involved.

 

The project is conducted by Katja Franko Aas at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and Helene Gundhus at the Norwegian Police University College.

 

Funding

This project is a sub-project of Crime Control in the Borderlands of Europe funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

 

Published June 16, 2016 9:38 AM - Last modified June 21, 2016 12:45 PM