Developing an EU internal security strategy, fighting terrorism and organised crime

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Spy, track and archive: The temporality of visibility in Eurosur and Jora

This article focuses on the temporalities of visibility that are at stake in the functioning of two mapping monitoring softwares devised by Frontex: Eurosur and Jora. Through a study of border practices and security devices that builds on interviews and direct observation, the article shows that while these two systems elaborate on data and information collected in real time, they work as archives for generating future migration risk scenarios and not for border surveillance purposes. After illustrating in detail the functioning and modes of visualization of Jora and Eurosur, the article takes into account how police officers, Frontex and navies use these devices, and how risk analyses are produced. The article demonstrates that these monitoring mapping devices are sustained by coeval temporalities: the detection of migrants ‘on the spot’ coexists with both a future-oriented temporality and an archival one. The second part of the article analyses the impact that mapping monitoring softwares have on migrant journeys and migrant lives. The article concludes by bringing attention to the ways in which migrants in part strategically appropriate and twist the temporality of security and the field of visibility enacted by these devices

Putting security in its place: EU security politics, the European neighbourhood policy and the case for practical reflexivity

This article advances the discussion on reflexivity among students of the EU security politics, in particular those scholars who foreground the critical dimension of their work. It argues that reflexivity is a practical concern in, and an integral part of, the research process. Efforts to locate security within a given political ordering need to be combined with an effort from scholars to examine their own knowledge-producing practices. Such an undertaking should not be considered as indulgence, narcissism or as an ex-ante or ex post, meta-theoretical commitment, but should take place in the research process itself, and particularly in the presentation of findings, as a fruitful contribution to research rather than as a safeguard or defence of one’s critical credentials. The article furthers this argument by mapping practical reflexivity onto research on the EU security politics and the European neighbourhood policy

Beyond the Tartar Steppe: EUROSUR and the ethics of European border control practices

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