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The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex's Risk Analysis
Columba Achilleos-Sarll1, Julia Sachseder2, Saskia Stachowitsch2
1University of Birmingham, UK.
Security Dialogue
|August 17, 2023
Summary
Visuals in EU border security, like photos and data, reinforce gender and racial stereotypes of migrants. This study
Area of Science:
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Media Studies
Background:
- Visuals are key in EU border security, used for surveillance and communication.
- Existing research links photographic representations of migration with surveillance and data visualization.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze how visuals in EU border security reproduce gendered and racialized meanings of migration.
- To develop an intervisual framework for studying the intersection of visuals in border politics.
- To examine Frontex's Risk Analysis Reports (2010-2021) using this framework.
Main Methods:
- Feminist postcolonial lens
- Intervisual framework development
- Case study analysis of Frontex Risk Analysis Reports (2010-2021)
Main Results:
- Visuals in Frontex reports perpetuate a 'migrant Other' and '(white) European' dichotomy.
- This reproduction occurs through the visibility of bodies, agency attribution, and border spatialization.
- Gender and race intersect to problematize migrants and legitimize border control.
Conclusions:
- The intersectional analysis of gender and race is crucial for understanding the visual politics of border security.
- Visual strategies in reports like Frontex's contribute to the justification of potentially violent border practices.
- The developed intervisual framework is applicable to other security institutions.
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