(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批评：难民困境使欧盟的外部边界成为人们关注的焦点，但申根地区的内部边界和自由流动原则也引起了他们的关注。值得注意的是，德国和波兰的边界就是这种情况，德国媒体经常将其与犯罪活动联系在一起。对边界的看法往往与欧洲边界政策中所宣称的合作和一体化目标相抵触。勃兰登堡和萨克森的右翼政党一直在推动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言论。除了可能即将到来的辩论理论化之外，国家和非国家行为者都在应对跨境犯罪，其方式有助于改变私人行为者与政府安全部队之间的关系。该项目将寻求评估关于边界和安全的纠缠不清的论述和主观看法对国家安全倡议和非国家安全倡议之间关系的影响。该项目的目标是了解实地涉及的不同行为者如何切实阐明安全与边界之间的联系。我们的目标是对当前关于欧洲边境制度的辩论做出基于经验的贡献。该项目将遵循三步走的方法：1.该项目将追溯2006-2016年期间德国-波兰边界的安全和边界的表述，特别侧重于对控制和监视以及情感背景的期望。2.该项目将分析，对行为者所指的社会组织的空间秩序有哪些隐含的、共同的和/或具体的理解，以及在空间秩序、特别是标量秩序方面，如何论证对控制和监督的期望。3.最后，该项目将分析国家或非国家行为者(社区民兵、安全伙伴关系、其他私人措施)采取的与安全有关的新集体行动形式或替代战略，以便了解在与边界有关的做法中可能重新谈判国家与社会关系的情况。以安全和恐惧为例，该项目将面临方法上的挑战，即如何结合话语分析和面向实践的观点促进知识的发展，这在地理研究中日益受到关注。此外，该项目寻求有助于解释如何将地方性理解为情景实践中的一种影响。

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.