From the \u201crefugee crisis\u201d back to \u201cnormality\u201c<\/strong> \u201eA real war against migrants\u201c<\/strong> EU naval operation in the Mediterranean<\/strong> EU Action Plan against \u201cmigrant smuggling\u201d<\/strong> The trinity of digital borders: Eurodac, SIS II and VIS<\/strong> Frontex: bright future for the EU border agency<\/strong> Migration control by the police<\/strong> European area of security without freedom or justice<\/strong> Fatal police shootings 2014<\/strong> Red-green police politics in Zurich<\/strong> Thematic focus: European state powers against migration From the \u201crefugee crisis\u201d back to \u201cnormality\u201c by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cilip-109","category-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Heiner Busch<\/strong>
\nSince 19 April 2015, when around 900 people drowned during a shipwreck off Libya, EU migration politics are in overdrive. In May, the Commission tabled its European Agenda on Migration. Since September several EU Member States attempt stopping refugees on the \u201cBalkans route\u201d by closing their borders. Now, the EU is trying to return to \u201cnormality\u201d \u2013 a normality which means that refugees and migrants are kept out of the EU or are at best treated as problem of the states at the external borders.<\/p>\n
\nInterview with Tresor<\/strong>
\n\u201eAt the borders they treat you like a criminal\u201c, says Tresor. The activist from Cameroon is co-founder of \u201eVoix des Migrants\u201c, the Network in Germany for the International Coalition of Sans-Papiers Migrants and Refugees (CISPM Berlin) and \u201eWatch The Med \u2013 Alarmphone\u201c. Talking to Matthias Monroy, he analyses the externalization of border controls and the policing of migrants in Europe as well as in buffer states like Morocco.<\/p>\n
\nby Christoph Marischka<\/strong>
\nAfter the tragic wreck of a boat with 900 refugees in April 2015, the EU launched its naval operation EU NAVFOR Med with remarkable speed. Its official aim is to \u201cdisrupt the business model of human smuggling and trafficking networks in the Southern Central Mediterranean\u201d. In practice, the military mission turns out to be a mixture of search and rescue, intelligence gathering and counter-terrorism operation.<\/p>\n
\nby Matthias Monroy<\/strong>
\nEuropol, Frontex and Eurojust team up to combat networks of \u201cmigrant smugglers\u201d. In their Joint Operation Team Mare, the three EU agencies support the EU naval operation in the Mediterranean. Moreover, the Internet Referral Unit, set up within Europol in July, has also the task to search and order the deletion of online postings by alleged \u201csmugglers\u201d especially in social media. In September, 30,000 persons were registered as suspected migrants\u2019 smugglers in Europol\u2019s data analysis project \u201cCheckpoint\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nby Eric T\u00f6pfer<\/strong>
\nThe three large-scale IT systems of the EU were originally established as instruments to implement the Dublin regime and the Schengen Convention. However, despite the Common European Asylum System and the Schengen area of open borders being seemingly dead, the EU is persisting in using its \u201cdigital borders\u201d. It is now even planned to intensify the use of the systems for purposes of aggravated deportation of migrants and counter-terrorism.<\/p>\n
\nby Maria Winker and Matthias Monroy<\/strong>
\nIn the face of increasing migration via the Western Balkan route and the central Mediterranean the mandate of Frontex is going to be expanded. New powers in the areas of collecting information and sharing intelligence, Rapid Border Intervention Teams and facilitating deportations are under discussion.<\/p>\n
\nby Friederike Wegner<\/strong>
\nSince its very beginning the abolishment of border controls in the Schengen area is foiled again and again. The \u201ctemporary\u201d re-introduction of national border controls, dragnet controls in the hinterland, and joint police operations and patrols \u2013 all these measures usually target migrants, not only since the beginning of the current \u201crefugee crisis\u201d.<\/p>\nNon-thematic contributions<\/h4>\n
\nby Dirk Burczyk<\/strong>
\nAfter the expiry of the Stockholm Programme (2009-2014) there will be no further five years plan for EU justice and home affairs. However, the Internal Security Strategy which stood in the centre of attention during the Stockholm period, will be renewed. The focus of the new strategy will be on the consequent use of existing information exchange instruments and operational co-operation.<\/p>\n
\nby Otto Diederichs<\/strong>
\nAccording to the statistics for 2014 published by the Conference of German Interior Ministers, seven persons were killed and 31 injured as a result of police use of firearms.<\/p>\n
\nBy Heiner Busch<\/strong>
\nSince 1990, the Police Department of the Zurich City Council is in the hands of the left. The political colour of the Councellour, however, did not have much influence in the development of the police. The left in the executive could not prevent the introduction of big information systems with many data even on non suspects. The police still uses tear gas and rubber bullets against demonstrations and has wide ranging powers of stop and search. The actual power is exercised by the police commander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"