Is Europe turning into a ‘technological fortress’? Innovation and technology for the management of EU’s external borders. Reflections on FRONTEX and EUROSUR

Once upon a time, in an era where the states defined themselves as ‘sovereign’, there was a border point. The border point was a place where a guard or a police-like officer used to ask to check a document called passport, which entitled a person to cross the border. States’ ambitions to enhance controls over the flux of non-citizens entering their territories led them to raise the requirements and ask for an extra document, the visa, a form of permission required before arriving at a state’s port or entry.

Journal/Publisher: Macmillan Publishers

Publication type: Book chapter

Number of pages/Page range: 131-151

Language/s (content): English

Date of publication: 03-01-11

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