Constructing the EU's high-tech borders: FRONTEX and dual-use drones for border management

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2018.1481396" target="_blank" >10.1080/09662839.2018.1481396</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Constructing the EU's high-tech borders: FRONTEX and dual-use drones for border management

Original language description

FRONTEX has highlighted Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) as affordable and efficient capabilities for securing the EU&apos;s vast frontiers in order to further upgrade them into smart technological borders. In this regard, this article examines the EU&apos;s strategy and rationalisations to develop dual-use technologies such as aerial surveillance drones for border management. By drawing on critical security and technology studies and by focusing on their functional technological efficiency, the article argues that drones are being normalised in a technological regime of exclusion at the border-zone. It further contends that high-end technologies such as drones introduce a military bias as security enablers in border surveillance and as a panacea for the consequences of failed policies to manage irregular migration. A closer examination of several EU-endorsed drone projects reveals a pragmatic and industry-driven approach to border security, underlining the evolving homogenisation between internal and external security and the imminent &quot;dronisation&quot; of European borders.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European security

ISSN

0966-2839

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

175-200

UT code for WoS article

000437780700004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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