Guarding the fortress
The report focuses on 19 Frontex operations run by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (hereafter Frontex) to explore how the agency is militarising borders and criminalising migrants, undermining fundamental rights to freedom of movement and the right to asylum.
The report focuses on analysing the tools deployed by Fortress Europe, in this case through Frontex, to prevent the freedom of movement and the right to asylum, from its creation in 2004 to the present day.
The sources used to write this report were from the EU and Frontex, based on its budgets and annual reports. The analysis focused on the Frontex regulations, the language used and its meaning, as well as the budgetary trends, identifying the most significant items – namely, the joint operations and migrant-return operations.
A table was compiled of all the joint operations mentioned in the annual reports since the Agency was established in 2005 up to 2018 (see annexes). The joint operations were found on government websites but were not mentioned in the Frontex annual reports. Of these operations, we analysed those of the longest duration, or that have showed recent signs of becoming long-term operations. The joint operations are analysed in terms of their objectives, area of action, the mandates of the personnel deployed, and their most noteworthy characteristics.
| Full title | Guarding the fortress: The role of Frontex in the militarisation and securitisation of migration flows in the European Union |
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| Author | Unspecified |
| Publisher | TNI |
| Year | 2019 |
| Media type | Unspecified |
| Link | https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/informe40_eng_ok.pdf |
| Topics | European Agencies (Frontex, GIZ & Co), Border and Surveillance Technology & Industry |
| Regions | Europe |