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posted on 2019-10-08, 12:39 authored by Christina OelgemöllerChristina Oelgemöller, Leonie Ansems de Vries, Kees GroenendijkThere is now a large literature discussing ‘Fortress Europe’ and the character
of the Schengen area, especially how it has established freedom of
movement inside at the expense of easy access from the outside. This article
challenges this metaphor by going back to the early negotiations around
Schengen and shedding light on some of the concerns raised at the time
regarding ‘compensatory measures’, the un/desirable and technological
solutions. We do so through a genealogical reading of documents from two
different but related archival sources that allow insight into the perceptions of
policy-makers at the time when Schengen was negotiated, now that these
documents have become partially accessible. We show that consensus
around the freedom and regulation of movement internally and control of
access at the boundaries was crafted simultaneously – rather than as a
‘compensatory measure’ – and in the context of efforts to identify the
un/desirable and find technological solutions to the ‘problem’ of free
movement. We also discuss how this has transformed our understanding of
the place and meaning of freedom of movement such that today it is both
taken for granted and under attack.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Published in
International Journal of Migration and Border StudiesVolume
6Issue
1-2Pages
7-25Publisher
InderscienceVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal International Journal of Migration and Border Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2020.108684Acceptance date
2019-10-02Publication date
2020-07-13Copyright date
2020ISSN
1755-2419Publisher version
Language
- en