Technologies of Border Management

Performances and Calculation of Finnish/Schengen Border Security

Bibliographic Data

ID3948482
AuthorsEeva-Kaisa Prokkola (0000-0003-3237-6953, University of Oulu, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue1
Pages77-94
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2012.685791
OpenAlexW2007763647
LanguageEN
Citations received17

This paper focuses on the Finnish Border Guard, a professional law enforcement authority responsible for the control and surveillance of the Finnish and Schengen borders, and its performances of border security. Performativity approach means that the analysis of the material, consisting of the bulletins and reports that have been published by the Border Guard service, is not merely focused on the representation of borders but the bulletins themselves are understood as performances of border security. The paper argues that new technological innovations, together with new legislation and institutional procedures, now steering the governance of the Finnish/Schengen border, are bound up with a new culture of border management in which border security is not (just) conceptualised in terms of territorial sovereignty but in terms of international cooperation, prevention and economic profitability

Border Security · Corporate governance · Economics · Economy · Enforcement · Management · Performativity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · Law · Public Administration · Research in Social Sciences

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