The Making (Sense) of EUROSUR: How to Control the Sea Borders?

Bellanova, Rocco; Duez, Denis

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“…The Nature of the Enlarged EU and second in Ulrich Beck's and Edgar Grande's (2007) Cosmopolitan Europe. The deployment of the term empire is justified on opposite premises.…”

Section: Europe As Empire With Medieval Cosmopolitan or Postnationalmentioning

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“…In the case of Zielonka, it was a critique on the tone in EU enlargement policy in the case. In the case of Beck and Grande, it was as invocation of the "last politically effective utopia" (Beck/Grande 2007: 2). 30 While Zielonka describes the EU as neo-medieval empire with a scattered public sphere and scattered legal zones, Beck and Grande envision the EU as a cosmopolitan empire, which bears the potential of universal integration, but lacks its construction from below.…”

Section: Europe As Empire With Medieval Cosmopolitan or Postnationalmentioning

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Mediated Bordering

Ellebrecht¹

2020

Edition Politik

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“…The Nature of the Enlarged EU and second in Ulrich Beck's and Edgar Grande's (2007) Cosmopolitan Europe. The deployment of the term empire is justified on opposite premises.…”

Section: Europe As Empire With Medieval Cosmopolitan or Postnationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Europe As Empire With Medieval Cosmopolitan or Postnationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mediated Bordering

Ellebrecht¹

2020

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“…Deployed surveillance instruments include border walls and fences monitored with infrared camera systems and motion sensors, patrol vessels and vehicles, hightech sensors, thermo-vision vans, geographical information systems, automatic identification systems, radar systems, helicopters, surveillance coordination centres, and, recently, drones (at testing stage), satellites, and the Eurosur (e.g., Topak 2014a; Jones and Johnson 2016; Topak and Vives 2018). The Eurosur is designed to work as the "system of systems" through gathering surveillance data from diverse units and technologies into a single centre and producing situational pictures of the borders (Jeandesboz 2011;Duez and Bellanova 2016). It is used in "monitoring, detection, identification, tracking, prevention, and interception of unauthorised border crossings" (European Council 2013).…”

Section: The Eu's Border Surveillance Regimementioning

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Humanitarian and Human Rights Surveillance: The Challenge to Border Surveillance and Invisibility?

Topak

2019

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The European border regime has traditionally rested on the hidden surveillance activities of border authorities, which have contributed to human rights violations (including “push-back” and “left-to-die” practices) and a rising migrant death toll. Recently a number of humanitarian and activist organizations, including Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Sea-Watch, and WatchTheMed, have organized to aid migrants in distress at sea using surveillance technologies, ranging from drones to GPS. By doing so, they presented a challenge to the European border surveillance regime. In dialogue with the concept of countersurveillance, this paper introduces the concepts of humanitarian surveillance and human rights surveillance and deploys them to examine and categorize the activities of MOAS, MSF, Sea-Watch, and WatchTheMed. Humanitarian surveillance narrowly focuses on aiding victims of surveillance without problematizing the logic and hierarchies of surveillance, while human rights surveillance operates as a form of countersurveillance; it aims to protect and advance the human rights of victims of surveillance and expose human rights violations committed by authorities through opposing the hierarchies of surveillance. The paper shows how civilian groups incorporate elements of humanitarian and human rights surveillance in their activities at varying levels and discusses the extent to which they challenge the European border surveillance regime.

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“…EUROSUR has been analysed by scholars in the fields of migration studies and security studies, taking into account inter-state relations (Bellanova, Duez, 2016;Jeandesboz, 2011) and the politics of control and visibility (Ellebrecht, 2014). However, the temporalities of visibility that sustain the 3 functioning of these monitoring-mapping devices are quite unaddressed in the literature.…”

Section: Unpacking the Temporalities Of Visibility Through A Study Ofmentioning

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

Tazzioli

2018

Security Dialogue

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This article focuses on the temporalities of visibility that is 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 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 the modes of visualisation of JORA and EUROSUR, the article takes into account how national police officers, Frontex and the Navy use these devices, and how risk analyses are produced. The articles demonstrates that these monitoring-mapping devices are sustained by coeval temporalities: the detection of migrants "on the spot" coexists with a future-oriented temporality and with an archival one. The second part of the article analyses the impact that mappingmonitoring softwares have on migrant journeys and migrant lives. It 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.

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The Making (Sense) of EUROSUR: How to Control the Sea Borders?

Cited by 25 publications

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Humanitarian and Human Rights Surveillance: The Challenge to Border Surveillance and Invisibility?

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

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