Bureaucracy, opacity, border violence: (Un)doing secrecy in EU migration management

With long-standing connections to investigative journalists, Luděk Stavinoha is perfectly placed to shine a light on the “secrecy surrounding routine border violence”. By interviewing these reporters, Ludek will illuminate how the “EU border bureaucracies that lie at the centre of efforts to deter, contain, criminalise, and expel ‘undesirable’ migrant populations remain shrouded by opacity”. This project will also make use of Freedom of Information legislation to understand the “mundane bureaucratic practices” employed by Frontex and the European Commission.