Mediated Bordering

Front matter

Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the

Construction of an External EU Border

Sabrina Ellebrecht Mediated Bordering

Part I: Mediated Bordering. Thinking And Researching Political Borders

2 European Spaces — Schengen Borders? | 23 2.1 Shifting Borders | 23 2.2 Europe as Borderland with Polysemic, Heterogeneous, and Overdetermined Borders | 39 2.3 Europe as Empire with Medieval, Cosmopolitan or Postnational Borders | 47 2.4 Network Europe and Networked (Non-)Borders | 57 2.5 Europe’s Border(s): Novel Policies, New Perspectives, Challenged Methodologies | 60

3 ‘Thinking and Researching Political Borders | 63 3.1 The Spectral Character of Any Border | 63 3.2 Mediated Bordering and the Territorial Border as Intermediary | 69 3.3 Researching Political Borders: In Situ or In Actu? | 73

PART Il: EUROSUR - THE EUROPEAN BORDER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM

4 “EUROSUR on the Screen” | 85 4.1 EUROSUR’s Graphical User Interface: Communication Device, Format, Network | 87 4.2 The European Situational Picture | 112 4.3 The Common Pre-Frontier Intelligence Picture (CPIP) | 117 4.4 EUROSUR on the Screen: The Depiction of an External EU Border? | 124

5 | EUROSUR on Paper - in the Official Journal of the EU 1127 5.1 Schengen as a Postnational Laboratory and Framework for Negotiations (1985-1997) | 129 5.2 In Search for New, Supranational Heads (1997-2003) | 133 5.3 Coordinated Cooperation along the Virtual Border (2003-2008) | 143 5.4 From the EUROSUR Roadmap to its Draft Regulation (2008-2011): National Infrastructures, Supranational Incentives | 150 5.5 “This is A Beautiful Situation Here” - EUROSUR’s Drafting Procedures and the Pilot Phase (2011-2012) 1172 5.6 EUROSUR as an Item of Law: the Final Regulation of 22 October 2013 1178

6 EUROSUR: IT’s Mediation | 183

PART Ill: THE REFUGEE BOAT - VEHICLE, MOVING TARGET, INTEGRATING FIGURE OF EU BORDERING

7 Site Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration | 193 7.1 What Characterizes Boats and Ships as Vehicles? | 193 7.2 Appropriation of Boats and Ships for Flight and Unauthorized Migration | 199 7.3 What Difference Does the Boat Make? | 209

8 Seaborne Migration: Europe’s Boat-Migrants

and their Refugee Vessels | 211 8.1 Boats and Border Enforcement in the Mediterranean | 212 8.2 “When You See the Boat, the Boat Tells the Story” | 234 8.3 What Story Does the Boat Tell? | 254

9 Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat-Migrants in EU Border Policies | 257 9.1 Maritime Spaces and Territorial Border Enforcement | 259 9.2 Legitimizing Maritime Interception as a Border Enforcement Practice | 263 9.3 The Refugee Boat: Virtually (at) the Border | 279