(In-)Security issues at the Schengen border. Security practices of state and non-state actors at the German-Polish border

欧洲边境制度最近受到了严厉的批评：难民的困境促使人们关注欧盟的外部边界，但申根区的内部边界和自由流动原则也引起了他们的关注。德国-波兰边境的情况尤其如此，德国媒体经常将其与犯罪活动联系起来。维斯边界的看法往往与欧洲边界政策中宣布的合作和一体化目标不一致。勃兰登堡和萨克森的右翼政党一直在将跨境犯罪作为一个主要的竞选议题，而其他政党也在逐渐采用这种话语。除了可能即将到来的意识形态化辩论外，国家和非国家行为者正在以一种有助于改变私人行为者和政府安全部队之间关系的方式来解决跨境犯罪问题。 该项目将寻求评估关于边界和安全的错综复杂的论述和主观看法对国家和非国家性质的安全倡议之间关系的影响。 该项目的目标是了解参与实地工作的不同行为体如何切实阐述安全与边界之间的联系。我们的目标是为当前关于欧洲边界制度的辩论做出基于实践的贡献。该项目将遵循三个步骤的方法：1。该项目将追溯2006-2016年期间德国-波兰边境的安全和边境表现，特别关注控制和监视方面的期望以及情感背景。2.该项目将分析，什么隐含的，共同分享和/或特定背景下的理解的空间秩序的社会行为者指的是，以及以何种方式对控制和监督的期望与空间，特别是标量排序的争论。3.最后，该项目将分析国家或非国家行为体（邻里民兵、安全伙伴关系、其他私人措施）采取的新的安全集体行动形式或替代战略，以了解在边境做法中可能重新谈判国家与社会关系的情况。随着安全和恐惧的专题例子，该项目将面临的方法论的挑战，推进知识的话语分析和实践为导向的角度，这是越来越感兴趣的地理研究相结合。此外，该项目试图帮助解释如何地方可以被理解为一个在现场的做法的影响。

The European border regime has recently drawn heavy criticism: The refugees plight has contributed to put the spotlight on the external borders of the Union, but the internal borders of the Schengen area and the free-movement principle have also drawn their share of attention. This has notably been the case for the German-Polish border, which the German media often associates with criminal activity. Perceptions vis-à-vis the border are symptomatically often at odds with the objectives of cooperation and integration proclaimed as in European bordering policies. Right-wing parties in Brandenburg and Saxony have been advancing cross-border crime as a major campaigning issue, while other parties are also gradually adopting such discourses. Besides the likely forthcoming debate ideologisation, cross-border crime is being addressed both by state and non-state actors in such a way that it contributes to modify the relation between private actors and government security forces. The project will seek to evaluate the impact of entangled discourses and subjective perceptions regarding borders and security on the relation between security initiatives of state and non-state nature. The goal of the project is to understand how the different actors involved in the field practically articulate the connection between security and border. Our aim is to make an empirically-based contribution to the current debate on the European border regime. The project will follow a three-step approach: 1. The project will retrace the representations of security and border concerning the German-Polish border over the 2006-2016 time-period, with a special focus on expectations regarding control and surveillance as well as emotional backgrounds. 2. The project will analyse, what implicit, commonly shared and/or context specific understandings of spatial orderings of the social the actors refer to, and in what way expectations regarding control and surveillance are argued in connection with spatial and especially scalar orderings. 3. Finally, the project will analyse new security-related forms of collective action or alternative strategies carried out by state or non-state actors (neighbourhood militias, security partnerships, other private measures) in order to derive knowledge on possible re-negotiations of the relation of state and society in border-related practices. With the thematic example of security and fear, the project will face the methodological challenge of advancing knowledge on the combination of discourse analytic and praxis oriented perspectives that is of growing interest within geographical research. In addition, the project seeks to contribute to explain how locality can be understood as an effect within situated practices.