EUROSUR: saving lives or building borders?

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Series Details Vol.24, No.3, September 2015, p454-472
Publication Date September 2015
ISSN 0966-2839
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This article analyses the origins and development of the European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR) in order to better understand its functioning in view of its stated objectives. Particular attention will be devoted to the European Commission’s recurring claim that one of EUROSUR’s main goals is to save lives at sea. This contribution questions that assertion. It rather considers EUROSUR as representative of the steady, technocratic development of a European system for border management. The reliance on the exchange of information, the reinforcement of FRONTEX, the European Union’s agency for the coordination of operational cooperation between national border guards and the emphasis on cooperation with third countries support this claim.

This article is part of a Special Issue of the European Security.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2015.1028190
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