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Julia Sachseder1, Saskia Stachowitsch1, Madita Standke-Erdmann2
1Department of International Relations and Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
Geopolitics
|September 25, 2024
Summary
The European Union (EU) uses "vulnerability" to describe both migrants and border susceptibility. This dual use, analyzed through feminist postcolonial theory, legitimizes EU border control practices and normalizes border violence.
Area of Science:
- Security Studies
- Political Geography
- Migration Studies
Background:
- The concept of vulnerability is increasingly central to EU border protection policies.
- Vulnerability is applied to both migrants and border integrity, creating conceptual ambiguity.
- Existing frameworks lack a critical lens on the dual application of vulnerability in border management.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critically analyze the dual use of the concept of vulnerability in EU border protection.
- To investigate how this ambiguity legitimizes the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) practices.
- To explore the connection between colonial legacies and the securitization of borders.
Main Methods:
- Discourse-theoretical analysis of official Frontex documents.
- Application of feminist postcolonial scholarship in security studies and political geography.
- Examination of how language constructs and justifies border security measures.
Main Results:
- The ambiguous use of vulnerability in Frontex documents creates analogies between borders and bodies.
- This ambiguity constructs EU bordering as neutral and objective, masking security practices.
- Vulnerability serves to legitimize the EU border regime and its security operations.
Conclusions:
- The concept of vulnerability is instrumental in normalizing the EU's often violent border practices.
- This normalization aligns with the EU's broader claims to liberal values, creating a contradiction.
- Feminist postcolonial critique reveals the racialized and gendered underpinnings of EU border securitization.
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