Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe

Sarantaki, Antonia-Maria

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“…The agency is ensconced within a hierarchical system of governance wherein Member States, the European Commission, and the European Parliament exercise varying degrees and forms of ex ante and ex post controls (Fink, 2020;Zhong & Carrapico, 2023). Meanwhile, over the past two decades multiple stakeholders have been upgrading Frontex's mandate either collectively through legislation or unilaterally via service agreements (Horii, 2015;Sarantaki, 2023). Given the ambiguous and evolutionary nature of Frontex's mandate, Pollak and Slominski (2009) argue that the experimentalist governance approach provides a more suitable framework for understanding the empowerment of Frontex.…”

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Frontex goes global: A two‐level experimentalist governance analysis of Frontex's international action and its role within the externalisation of EU borders

Zhong,

Carrapico

2024

Contemporary European Politics

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The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has progressively expanded its international footprint by collaborating with non‐European Union (EU) partners to enhance the management and security of the EU's external borders. This article examines the development of Frontex's external relations through a two‐level experimentalist governance lens and considers its impact on the EU's externalisation policy. The article contends that Frontex has enhanced its international profile in a context where EU policy actors' allocated goals have remained vague. The agency has had considerable autonomy in implementing these goals and has actively broadened its operational scope. The accountability dimension of Frontex's external relations, however, remains an important concern. To address this challenge, the article advocates greater transparency and disclosure, along with increased parliamentary and public oversight of Frontex.

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Frontex goes global: A two‐level experimentalist governance analysis of Frontex's international action and its role within the externalisation of EU borders

Zhong,

Carrapico

2024

Contemporary European Politics

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“…Thus, even though Member State authorities are still the most important actors in the RSD process, the lack of in-depth investigations into how the EUAA functions is a shortcoming of academia. Whereas Frontex, rightly, has been the focus of many in-depth studies (Campesi, 2022;Neal, 2009;Paul, 2017;Perkowski et al, 2023;Sarantaki, 2023), the EUAA and its predecessor, the EASO, have remained understudied. In spite of the agency's important function, we know relatively little about how it is bureaucratically organised and how its organisation impacts on the way in which forced migration is managed in Europe today.…”

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Under the hood of the European Union Agency for Asylum: A study of bureaucratic structures, institutional arrangements and frontline caseworkers

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Those who study the Common European Asylum System are faced with a puzzling paradox. On the one hand, the system constitutes one of the most comprehensive and judicious protection regimes that the world has ever seen. On the other hand, there is a policy of deterrence in which asylum seekers are actively hindered from enjoying these rights. Living conditions for asylum seekers at the external borders have long been abhorrent, and many consider procedural safeguards in the asylum process inadequate. This study takes an in-depth look at what it is like to work at the forefront of this system by analysing the bureaucratic structures of the European Union Agency for Asylum. It is shown that the discrepancy between officially articulated values and actual practice has significant negative impact on the morale of caseworkers, and that they need to develop strategies to deal with the ethical dilemmas that arise from these discrepancies. The study also sheds light on the process through which the agency creates bureaucratic instruments, in spite of the considerable political turmoil that characterises the migration field. By interviewing caseworkers, analysing bureaucratic instruments, and reviewing the legislative framework, this thesis is both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of the Common European Asylum System and the European Union Agency for Asylum.

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Frontex: Transcending the EU Borders

Sarantaki

2024

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe

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Frontex goes global: A two‐level experimentalist governance analysis of Frontex's international action and its role within the externalisation of EU borders

Frontex goes global: A two‐level experimentalist governance analysis of Frontex's international action and its role within the externalisation of EU borders

Under the hood of the European Union Agency for Asylum: A study of bureaucratic structures, institutional arrangements and frontline caseworkers

Frontex: Transcending the EU Borders

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