Analysing the logics and policies of the EU

Abstract

EU borders and migration controls and management have dominated the news in Europe for years. 2023/24 has been no exception with the EU legislators’ negotiations of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum and the relevance of the subject to the European Parliament elections. One of the areas of substantial friction in the European debates on borders and migration is their purpose: what is being pursued and achieved through border and migration controls and management? The statistics: visitors to the EU (over 300 million entries per year), issue of first residence permits (@3 million per year) belie a discourse of closure and exclusion. Yet the direction of public discourse remains blind to these statistics. What objective is so important that facts are unable to enter the debate? In this panel, we examine the security claims and the friction between EU and national security claims that dominate the arena of border control and migration in Europe. Who is organising the control, remotely through digitalisation, and-or at the borders? To what extent does the national security agenda interfere with border controls, and on what grounds? What evidence-based research, courts, politicians and opinion polls are saying ? How do we explain the dynamics at play that allow many to pass but block a minority, with tragic consequences?

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