The New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and Immigration Enforcement Changes in Europe (II)

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

When the European Union (EU) institutions set up the basic architecture of border control policies in Europe back in the late 1990s they could not have envisioned the heated political and public debates on migration enforcement currently witnessed in the EU – and elsewhere. In Europe, supranational, national and subnational actors converge to form a multi-scalar model of asylum and migration governance, contributing to shape migration policies by agonistically pursuing their own interests and goals. These agonistic relations take place in a migration enforcement field that has significantly changed over the last decade, both at the continental and national level. The New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which should be passed in the coming months, is expected to have a major impact on this already politically charged and unstable field. This two-panel session aims to scrutinise recent changes in this field and the potential impact of the passage of the New EU Pact, gathering presentations from various EU countries that have been particularly active in shielding external EU borders.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 56. Immigration and Justice Issues

Individual Presentations

• EU Screening regulation: legal fiction and technological dominance - Valeria Ferraris, University of Turin

• Unveiling Tomorrow's Europe: The Nexus of Big Data, Racial Profiling, and Territory control in bordering practices - Giulia Fabini, University of Bologna

• “Fear of small numbers”: A state of exception at the longest EU external border - Jukka Könönen, University of Helsinki

• Immigration detention as a synecdoche: Detention changes and the New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum - Jose Angel Brandariz, University of A Coruna

Chair

• Giuseppe Campesi, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Discussant

• Giuseppe Campesi, University of Bari Aldo Moro