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Frontex and the shifting approaches to boat migration in the European Union: a legal analysis
Deaths, Interventions, Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Mediterranean âMigration Crisisâ
The European Neighbourhood Policy, Region-Building and Bordering
The chapter presents a review of the European Neighbourhood Policyâs diversified aims and of its realizations. In light of the main criticisms that authors and experts have expressed towards the EUâs attempts to extend its ânormative powerâ beyond its external borders, the chapter presents an assessment of the ENPâs goals and narratives with a specific focus on its diversified regional strategies and on the perspectives for a multi-level governance of the policy. The aim is to show how the ENP is not a unitary but fragmented and controversial strategy: bordering and cross-bordering, homogenisations and differentiations, centrifugal and centripetal forces proceed side-by-side. Grasping the variety of these apparently contradictory forces, it is argued, is more useful in understanding the Neighbourhood Policy rather than referring to simple and âterritorialâ metaphors such as âwider Europeâ, on the one hand, or âfortress Europeâ on the other