Interest groups and strategic constructivism: business actors and border security policies in the European Union

Baird, Theodore

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1316185

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“…Maritime border control has exploited ‘remote control’ instruments such as offshore interdiction or detention (Zaiotti 2016 ), ‘smart’ border devices operating pre-emptively (Vaughan-Williams 2015 ) and the use of military technologies for border enforcement (Bialasiewicz 2012 ). In a short time, ‘a market has grown in Europe, driven by a number of firms which engage in the design, production, and supply of border security and surveillance technologies’ (Baird 2018 , 119).…”

Section: Theoretical Debates On Human Security At the Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human security at the Mediterranean borders: humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery

Panebianco

2021

Int Polit

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This article provides a re-conceptualization of human security by exploring humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery. It analyzes human security at the Mediterranean borders by focusing on humanitarian, migrant-centered discourse concerned with defending the world’s most vulnerable populations (Barnett in Annual Review of Political Science 16(1): 379-398, 2013). Empirical research has detected humanitarian discourse defending migrants’ rights, based on claims for the right to be free from inhuman treatment (Aradau in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 33(2): 251–77, 2004), as a counter-argument to the defense and closure of the borders. A humanitarian discourse focused on the alleviation of migrants’ physical and mental suffering erupted at the EU periphery when the Italian government denied a port of safety to the SeaWatch3 vessel in January 2019. This case study provides an example of center-periphery conflictual dynamics. The Italian government, defending the EU/Italian borders by closing the Italian ports, was challenged by actors mobilizing pressure, shaming the state into compliance and requesting pro-migrant legislation.

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Section: Theoretical Debates On Human Security At the Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human security at the Mediterranean borders: humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery

Panebianco

2021

Int Polit

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“…The field has seen the emergence of numerous projects and has undergone a rapid evolution (Blumenstock, 2012; Boas, 2017; ITU‐D, 2019; Martin & Singh, 2018; Taylor, 2015). This is hardly surprising, when considering that ramified technological assemblages have reshaped how borders are imagined, visualized, and enforced (Baird, 2017; Squire, 2014; Tazzioli, 2018), and ICTs have been advocated also to support migrants and refugees (e.g., Maitland, 2018).…”

Section: Seeds Of Digitalized Landd?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Clouded skies: How digital technologies could reshape “Loss and Damage” from climate change

Bettini

Gioli

Felli

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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As dangerous climate change becomes more and more likely, a consensus has been reached on the importance of addressing Loss and Damage (L&D) residual to mitigation (i.e., preventing climate change) and adaptation (i.e., adjusting in order to avert adverse impacts). In spite of sharp divisions in terms of how to understand and operationalize L&D, most approaches draw on classic environmental governance, with discrete analogic interventions implemented by States and international actors. L&D is mainly envisioned as an “international court of climate justice” that identifies the culprits (emitters), quantifies harm, and compensates victims. While digital technologies and algorithmic governance have colonized many germane policy fields and virtually all economic sectors, in the L&D field a substantive discussion on the use of information and communication technologies, algorithms, and user‐generated data has been conspicuously absent. By taking the prospect of a “digitalization” of L&D seriously, this advanced review identifies the seeds of emerging digitalized approaches to L&D through an overview of literature. We focus on examples in three key domains associated with L&D—insurance, disaster responses and risk management, and human displacement. These empirical cases are used to investigate the modes of governance that accompany the digital tools through which L&D could be implemented, and the profound changes in climate politics and justice that would accompany a digitalization/algorithmization of L&D. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making

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“…The security industry creates the conditions for border controls to evolve and be carried out with the support of the most updated and effective technologies (Gammeltoft-Hansen and Nyberg-Sørensen 2012; Sontowski 2016). The border security industry does not only respond to the demand from policymakers by offering solutions for specific problems: its offer may also contribute to shaping the demand (Baird 2018), and thus to design border control policies. It thus plays an indirect role in the deadly effects of the latter.…”

Section: The Border Security Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Deaths

Sinatti¹,

Vos²

2019

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This book is an outcome of the conference, Border deaths and migration policies: state and non-state approaches, that took place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 14-15 June 2018 and involved over 100 participants, many of whom went on to (co-)author the chapters herein. The conference was organised by Thomas Spijkerboer and Paolo Cuttitta as part of the research project, Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants, hosted by the Amsterdam Centre

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Interest groups and strategic constructivism: business actors and border security policies in the European Union

Cited by 18 publications

References 57 publications

Human security at the Mediterranean borders: humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery

Human security at the Mediterranean borders: humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery

Clouded skies: How digital technologies could reshape “Loss and Damage” from climate change

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