Outsourcing Border Control: Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco

ISBN-13: 9781137469830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 94 str.

F. Infantino

Opis

This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Focusing on the case of outsourcing three Schengen states visa services in Morocco (Belgium, France, and Italy consular posts), the author analyzes the processes leading to public/private governance of the Schengen visa policy as well as the effective policy-making of state and private actors. Drawing from public policies, implementation studies, new public management, and migration control for her analysis, this book fuses academic literatures that are often separated and sheds light on the ways in which the private actors impact and help shape the Schengen visa policy and politics."

Spis treści

1. Bordering Outside the State

2. Outsourcing in Practice

3. The Politics of Private-Public Cooperation

O autorze

Federica Infantino is FNRS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. She is co-editor of the 2014 Security Dialogue’s special issue “Border Security as Practice” and contributor to several journals in English and French. 

Blurb

This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Using an original case study, private contractors that implement EU visa policy on governments’ behalf, the author focuses on visa application centers located in Morocco and run by the two major contractors of European Member States, the transnational corporations VFSGlobal and TLSContact. The analysis builds on ethnographic research that encompasses the making of EU visa policy at the European, national and local levels. It aims at uncovering the reasons that have led to the adoption of outsourcing as a normal and legitimized mode to implement EU visa policy and the effects of that choice.