Resilient Borders: Reconstructing (in)visibility, Understanding the border and migration management of the EU through the concept of resilience: The case of the Central Mediterranean route: Understanding the border and migration management of the EU through the concept of resilience: The case of the Central Mediterranean route
Translated title
Resilient Borders: Reconstructing (in)visibility, Understanding the border and migration management of the EU through the concept of resilience: The case of the Central Mediterranean route
Author
Manouskou, Kondylia Maria
Term
3. term
Education
Publication year
2021
Submitted on
2021-01-03
Pages
53
Abstract
This thesis investigates how the European Union’s adoption of resilience shapes border and migration management, asking how this concept produces a space of selective (in)visibility along the Central Mediterranean route. Drawing on Foucault’s ideas of governmentality and regime of truth, it develops a resilience mechanism to trace how policy discourses and practices reorder what is made visible or kept invisible. The study introduces a typology of visibility (social, media, control) and analyzes EU documents and operations related to the Central Mediterranean, including external cooperation under the European Neighbourhood Policy, the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, elements of the Common Security and Defence Policy, bilateral engagement with Libya, and Frontex activities such as Operation Triton. The case discussion highlights the shift from sea rescue toward disrupting smuggling, the externalization of migration management, and practices such as push-backs, situating them within resilience-driven governance. While the early chapters reviewed here do not report empirical findings, the work offers a conceptualization of resilient borders and argues that resilience has facilitated EU interests by organizing visibility and invisibility at its maritime frontier. The thesis points to avenues for further research on resilience as a policy keyword in migration governance.
Dette speciale undersøger, hvordan EU’s anvendelse af resiliens former grænse- og migrationsstyring og spørger, hvordan begrebet skaber et rum for selektiv (in)synlighed på den centrale middelhavsrute. Med udgangspunkt i Foucaults begreber om governmentality og sandhedsregimer udvikles en resiliensmekanisme, der sporer, hvordan politiske diskurser og praksisser omordner, hvad der gøres synligt eller usynligt. Studiet introducerer en typologi for synlighed (social, medie, kontrol) og analyserer EU-dokumenter og operationer knyttet til den centrale middelhavsrute, herunder eksternt samarbejde under European Neighbourhood Policy, EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, elementer af Common Security and Defence Policy, bilateralt engagement med Libyen samt Frontex-aktiviteter som Operation Triton. Casegennemgangen belyser skiftet fra redning til søs mod bekæmpelse af smugling, eksternalisering af migrationsstyring og praksisser som push-backs, og placerer dem i en resiliensdrevet styringsramme. De tidlige kapitler, der er gennemgået her, rapporterer ikke empiriske fund, men arbejdet tilbyder en konceptualisering af resiliente grænser og argumenterer for, at resiliens har faciliteret EU’s interesser ved at organisere synlighed og usynlighed ved den maritime grænse. Specialet peger på muligheder for videre forskning i resiliens som nøgleord i migrationsstyring.
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