’The Current Situation’ - installation art makes you feel the nature of national #borders
▻http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2015/06/the-current-situation.html #frontières
’The Current Situation’ - installation art makes you feel the nature of national #borders
▻http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2015/06/the-current-situation.html #frontières
Do our #passports continue to be punished for being African?
▻http://africasacountry.com/passport-tiers-citizenship
Late last week, I was informed that I would not be able to #travel to Dubai for an important meeting scheduled months ago. Like other countries across the globe, the United.....
#FRONT_PAGE #Borders #Ebola #Editorial #Liberia #Nations #UAE
#xenophobia and Border Imperialism
▻http://africasacountry.com/xenophobia-and-border-imperialism
The recent wave of Afrophobic attacks on individuals deemed to be foreigners in downtown Durban and Johannesburg reminded me of my home #Canada. We have been in a persistent state.....
What is the optimum number of migrant deaths ?
▻http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/08/optimum-deaths.html #migration #FRONTEX #borders #democracy
It makes no more sense to mourn the death of a migrant than it does to mourn the arrival of a restaurant bill. Both are the inevitable result of our choices. Such mourning would be sanctimonious hypocrisy - and voters and politicians would never be guilty of this, would they ?
International road connections in Europe are 10% longer and 5% slower than national ones - correlation between borders and geographic obstacles may explain some of that:
▻http://www.voxeu.org/article/roads-deeper-european-integration
#Europe #EU #transportation #roads #borders
#BORDERS, A FILM BY #JACQUELINE_VAN_VUGT
We all know the exciting, sweaty, scary, uncomfortable feeling arriving at a border. You will have to submit yourself to the guards standing in front of you. In a split second your mind is alert. “Do I carry any illegal product, are my papers in order, did I take my “special” cigarettes out”, what about the snake skin boots..? Probably everything is in order, you played by the rules, but…
Power is not in your own hands at the border. They, the guards will check your papers, they might check your luggage. The guards may want to check your body and maybe even they will want to check the inside of your body. Life is out of your own hands.
The film Borders starts at the Schiphol Airport Detention Centre. Its unique filmmaker Jacqueline van Vugt was able to film inside. Here we encounter the border between The Netherlands and Nigeria, by Clara, 16 years in the Netherlands. She is expelled, back to her country of origin, Nigeria.
In Nigeria the journey starts a new. Border by border the film Borders follows the route from Nigeria to The Netherland, a route taken by many immigrants. The subsequent Borders are the protagonists; Nigeria-Niger-Burkina Faso-Mali-Senegal-Mauretania-Marocco-Spain-France-Belgium-The Netherlands. The Borders change; the people, the light, the colours, the temperature, the use of technical instrument, …but the influence of power is always there! The anguish, the scary thrill, will posses you - being there – at the Borders.
▻http://www.pvhfilm.nl/borders
#frontières #migrations #film #documentaire
Intéressant, mais si j’ai dû le voir (ARRRGGHHH) dans un Pathé ici à Amsterdam ! Je déteste les festivals qui programmes les films au Pathé !
EUBORDERSCAPES
Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas:
Potentials and Challenges of Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World
#frontières #murs #europe
‘New geographical frontiers’ thème de la conférence annuelle des géographes britanniques à Londres
la frontière dans tous ses états et dans tous ses possibles sens
▻http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Conference+theme.htm
The Chair of Conference, Professor Jonathan Rigg (University of Durham), has introduced the theme of the conference and the overlapping areas of debate for delegates.
New geographical frontiers
The conference theme in 2013 is ‘New geographical frontiers’. This is one of those labels that is fairly open and can, therefore, be interpreted in a variety of ways. The frontier can be employed as a concept, a metaphor or as a point of empirical focus – and while it is a classic geographical preoccupation that has rightly been problematised, it should still command our attention. There is a set of underpinning questions which can be seen to come, loosely, under the rubric of ‘new geographical frontiers’: Where are the frontiers in geographical theory and methods and what contributions and innovations is geography making to wider debates and practices? Have we fully come to terms with the continuing call to think and research in inter-disciplinary ways, and can geography play a leading role in that initiative? What is geography’s impact and how can we further promote the role and place of geography in society and economy? Where are we, collectively, making a contribution but, equally importantly, where should we be making a contribution?
#frontières #murs #borders #grense #géographie #géographie-radicale #cartographie-radicale
Remote Sensing as Remote Control ? A Political Geography of EU Border Surveillance | AntipodeFoundation.org
#borders#technology#biometrics
▻http://antipodefoundation.org/2013/01/29/intervention-remote-sensing-as-remote-control-a-political-geogra
#borders #art#technology #frontières #drones #biometrics
Notre atelier ART-SCIENCES sur la frontière continue : bienvenue à Aix-en-Provence les 12-14 février 2013
Our border ART-SCIENCE workshop goes on : welcome in Aix en Provence on Feb. 13-14th
▻http://www.imera.fr/index.php/fr/component/sportingevents/event/291-frontires/62.html
Closing Europe’s Borders Becomes Big Business
ATHENS/WARSAW, Jan 9 2013 (IPS) - The European Union is implementing a new border management system with tougher migration control the core aim. Major security and weapons companies are already reaping the benefits.
Frontex, the EU border agency, has financed major weapons and security equipment producers to present their equipment in demonstrations. European national border guards have participated in these demonstrations as potential customers, IPS learns.
Frontex confirmed to IPS that the agency has been paying weapons and security equipment manufacturers to participate in demonstrations of equipment which national agencies attended as potential customers.
“In the case of companies Lockheed Martin, FAST Protect AG, L-3 Communications, FLIR Systems, SCOTTY Group Austria, Diamond Airborne Sensing and Inmarsat, it (the reimbursement) was 30,000 euros,” the agency told IPS in an emailed response.
The companies participated in demonstration of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (Drones) in Aktio in Greece in October 2011. Thirteen companies and consortiums (Israel Aerospace Industries, Lockheed Martin, FAST Protect AG, L-3 Communications, FLIR Systems, SCOTTY Group Austria, Diamond Airborne Sensing, Inmarsat, Thales, AeroVision, AeroVironment, Altus, BlueBird) demonstrated technological solutions for maritime surveillance.
“The payments made to the companies to cover the costs incurred by them to participate in the demonstration in Aktio varied from 10,000 euros to 198,000 euros,” said Frontex.
U.S.-based Lockheed Martin, French Thales and Israeli IAI are among the biggest weapons and security equipment producers in the world.
The demonstrations are part of the preparation for the launch of EUROSUR, the European External Border Surveillance System meant to enhance cooperation between border control agencies of EU member states and to promote surveillance of EU’s external borders by Frontex, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean and North Africa, in view of controlling migration to Europe.
Surveillance plans envisage the possibility of using drones to spot migrant boats trying to cross the Mediterranean.
EUROSUR is one of the two main elements of Europe’s new border management regime along with ‘Smart Borders’ which will put in place an ‘Entry-Exit System’ (EES) to identify visa overstayers, and establish a Registered Traveller Programme (RTP) to enable pre-vetted individuals to cross borders faster. The system would rely heavily on use of biometrics and on the collection of a huge database of passenger personal information.
A legislative package setting up EUROSUR was approved in mid-November this year by the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee and is expected to receive a final go-ahead soon from the entire Parliament and by the European Council, the EU’s executive. Meanwhile, preparations for EUROSUR are advancing away from public scrutiny.
The demonstrations of market ready equipment are a significant measure in the steady construction of a new EU border management system. Through 2014-2020 member states will be encouraged to buy such equipment with support from the EU budget.
The Commission estimates that the creation of EUROSUR could cost up to 338 million euros. ‘Borderline’, a study of the EU’s new border surveillance and control system published by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, claims the costs could “easily” end up as high as 874 million euros. The Commission refutes the higher estimates.
The ‘Smart Gates’ initiative is estimated by the Commission to cost 400 million euros for setting up plus an additional 190 million euros annually in operating costs.
According to the Borderline study, “despite the absence of any draft legislation, or even an agreement in principle on introducing smart borders in the EU, the Commission has already allocated 1.1 billion euros to the development of an EES (EU Entry Exit System) and RTP (EU Registered Traveller Programme) from the proposed EU Internal Security Fund (2014-2020).”
The Internal Security Fund is meant to be a new component of the future EU budget (2014-2020), replacing the existing External Border Fund. According to a Commission proposal, the Internal Fund would be 4.648 billion euros annually, and among its strategic priorities will be “to finance the setting up of the EES and the RTP as well as the introduction and operation of the EUROSUR, notably through “the purchase of equipment, infrastructure and systems in member states.”
It would also “boost the operational potential of the Frontex Agency by inviting member states to earmark additional resources under their programmes for specialised equipment which can be put at the disposal of the Agency for its joint operations.”
In early December, the European Parliament gave a green light to the Internal Security Fund. Now only Council approval is needed for it to become operational – member states are expected to make a final decision on the next EU Budget in February 2013.
“The European border security policy is going in the wrong direction,” Green euro-parliamentarian Ska Keller told IPS. “Against the background of pervasive budget cuts and austerity measures, it is unbelievable that the EU is spending millions of euros for ‘smart gates’, UAVs, and other surveillance technologies.
“And it is even more shameful that those who profit most from EUROSUR and ‘smart borders’ are the big European defence contractors.”
►http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/01/closing-europes-borders-becomes-big-business
@reka
#borders #business #migration #surveillance #frontex #eurosur #economy
Borders may be barely noticed by globe-trotting corporate executives, but for the vast majority of the world’s inhabitants, border checks remain a practical obstacle to transnational mobility. If this were not the case, unauthorized migrants would not have to pay such enormous prices to hire professional smugglers and place their lives at their mercy to evade state controls. Clandestine transnational activities such as migrant smuggling and drug traficking are so profitable precisely because states impose prohibitions and restrict territorial access. Defying border controls is not only financially costly for many but can involve great personal risk: If border controls were merely a nuisance and easily bypassed, there would not be so many migrant deaths in the southwest borderlands of the United States and so many migrants drowning in the Adriatic and the Strait of Gibraltar. These mounting deaths offer a particularly grim reminder that borders continue to matter.
Tiré de : ►http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/016228803322761973
@reka
#migration #smugglers #borders #death #border_controls #transnational_mobility #smuggling