(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人们的关注。德国-波兰边界的情况尤其如此，德国媒体经常把这一边界与犯罪活动联系在一起。对-à-vis边境的看法往往与欧洲边境政策中宣布的合作与一体化目标不一致。勃兰登堡州和萨克森州的右翼政党一直将跨境犯罪作为主要的竞选议题，而其他政党也逐渐采用了这样的话语。除了即将到来的意识形态辩论之外，国家和非国家行为者都在处理跨境犯罪，这有助于改变私人行为者与政府安全部队之间的关系。该项目将试图评估关于边界和安全的纠缠话语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该领域的不同参与者如何实际阐明安全和边界之间的联系。我们的目标是为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年至2016年期间德国-波兰边境的安全和边界代表，特别关注对控制和监视以及情感背景的期望。2. 该项目将分析参与者所指的社会空间秩序的隐含的、共同的和/或特定背景的理解，以及与空间秩序特别是标量秩序有关的关于控制和监视的期望的争论方式。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）实施的与安全有关的集体行动的新形式或替代战略，以便获得关于在与边境有关的实践中可能重新谈判国家与社会关系的知识。通过安全与恐惧的专题例子，该项目将面临方法论上的挑战，即在地理研究中日益引起兴趣的话语分析和以实践为导向的观点的结合方面推进知识。此外，该项目试图解释如何将局部性理解为情境实践中的影响。

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.