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Summer/Fall 1997: Frontiers And Identities At Stake. Control Of Immigrants And Asylum Seekers
The Control of Immigration: Myths and Reality (PDF, 6 pages, 24 KB) , by Ayse Ceyhan & Anastassia Tsoukala
The figure of the immigrant has (once more) become politic. It is a political, economical or even cultural menace according to a series of contemporary discourses. There is a tendency to present immigration as a major political problem for which securisation mechanisms are needed. The authors underline how this immigration securisation can originate from symbolic policies and be accompanied by a transformation of the logic of control. Ayse Ceyhan and Anastassia Tsoukala analyse these anti-immigrants discourses and suggest a commentary on the rhetoric and myths that are used.
The English version of this contribution has been published in Alternatives Vol. 27, Supplement, February 2002 Available at http://www.rienner.com/altrec.htm
Frontiers: A Contemporary Debate (PDF, 18 pages, 58 KB) , by Malcolm Anderson
Frontiers are not only layouts or a political uni-dimensional geographic place, where one State ends where another starts. Malcolm Anderson comes back on debates around the question of borders and reintroduces a transversal and dynamic dimension to what is too often thought in static terms. The author highlights the investigation field's scope opened by a more dynamic view of borders by examining the literature on the subject.
The Control of Difference in Europe: Inclusion and Exclusion as a Security-related and Economic Dynamic (PDF, 16 pages, 51 KB) , by Mike King
Maintaining a "fortress Europe" discourse is reducing. Visibly applied for security reasons, the European immigration control policies still underline the complexity of the question of immigration as well as the coexistence of opposite socio-political stakes. The author shows in this article how managing immigration does not only imply exclusion security mechanisms but also economic inclusion mechanisms.
The Control of Immigration in Greece in the 1990s (PDF, 20 pages, 61 KB) , by Anastassia Tsoukala
The author analyses in this article the contemporary immigration history of Greece as well as she presents a detailed analysis of the Greek immigration policy. The Greek policies in regards to immigration were based, until 1991, on a law adopted in 1929. Greece's will to arrange these lacks and follow the European policy directive lines have not had the expected results. Anastassia Tsoukala shows how variable the immigration policies can be in Greece according to European, regional or intern orientations, all having opposite aims.
The Myths of Control: The Eastern Boundary of the Federal Republic of Germany at the turn of the 1990s (PDF, 17 pages, 55 KB) , by Albrecht Funk
The author underlines the impact of socio-political factors on immigration control and shows the week efficiency degree of supposed highly secured border controls. By examining the different requests and establishments of compensatory measures aiming at reinforcing the control at the German-Polish and German-Czech borders, the authors undertakes an analysis of the police ideology of control.
The Evolution of Transnational Policing in the English Channel Region (1968-1996) (PDF, 26 pages, 79 KB) , by James W. E Sheptycki
This paper draws on empirical research undertaken in the English Channel region in order to enlighten long established practices of transnational policing in north-western Europe. Four phases in the evolution of police co-operation since 1968 are examined. Further, the complexity of police agencies that comprise the co-operative enterprise is described. The evolution of this network is exemplified using case files of the Cross Channel Intelligence Conference. It is argued that fragmentation remains the abiding characteristic of the transnational policing system in Europe and that police co-operation in the region owes more to the efforts of the police personnel who give it life than to the rationality of the bureaucracy that circumscribes it.
The Right of Asylum in France: an Overview , by Amnesty International, France Terre D'Asile,
While the French government announces a transformation of the legislation regarding foreigners, the authors of his article offer a precise judicial description of the asylum procedures. They also produce a rigorous sociological commentary on the situation of those who seek to obtain protection in France today.
Immigration, Race and Security at the Mexican-American Border (PDF, 30 pages, 91 KB) , by Randy Willoughby
What is shown in this article is that if race and security ideologies were at the origin of the most important mobilisations in the American history, they are since the end of bipolarity part of the debate on immigration. Even if the racial element is more implicit than explicit and far from being determinant for the author, his analysis on the Californian campaign against illegal immigration (Proposition 187) shows how the application of a security approach generates social problems.
The United States: securitised borders controlled Identities? (PDF, 20 pages, 63 KB) , by Ayse Ceyhan
The author analyses in this article the importance of the myth of the border as symbol of the American identity in the politico-security discourses arguing a deficit of sovereignty and utilising this to asserting the necessary reinforcing of controls at the border. The author retraces the story of the Mexican American border and the technological means implemented to watch. By doing so he insists on the frontier securisation process which, far from only taking place at the border occurs through the real social control within the United States.