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Constructing the real-time border: Frontex, risk and dark imagination

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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:25 authored by Dean WilsonDean Wilson
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, commonly known as Frontex, acquired augmented competencies in 2016. Additional operational capacity continues the expansionary trajectory the Agency has travelled since its inception. This paper provides an examination of the security rationalities underpinning and informing Frontex. Frontex is promoted as being ‘intelligence-led’. This claim is reinforced through the pivotal role of Frontex as a producer and distributor of risk analysis for European border control assemblages. The engagement of ‘imagination-based’ techniques in Frontex risk analysis attempts to foresee crises, which in turn mobilises rationalities of precaution, pre-emption and preparedness. The discussion then interrogates the security logics evident in the EUROSUR project, and its aspiration to provide border visualisations in ‘near-real-time’. It is argued that while the EUROSUR project may not represent ‘militarisation’ as such, it is riven with martial rationalities.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Justice, Power and Resistance

ISSN

2398-2764

Publisher

EG Press

Issue

1

Volume

2

Page range

45-65

Department affiliated with

  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Crime Research Centre Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-05-29

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-05-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-05-29

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