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Malin Åkerström

Malin Åkerström

Professor emerita

Malin Åkerström

Policing Migration: Described and Observed Cooperation Experiences of Police and Border Guards in the Baltic Sea Area

Författare

  • Sophia Yakhlef
  • Goran Basic
  • Malin Åkerström

Summary, in Swedish

“Collaboration” is generally portrayed as being beneficial to intelligence and operational police work, even if previous collaborative research shows that conflicts are common between authorities who are supposed to cooperate. The present study focuses on how officers collaborate in their day-to-day management of borderguarding, taking into consideration the different social and cultural backgrounds of the project participants. To these ends, this qualitative, ethnographically study is based on empirical material gathered from interviews, field observation sessions with officers working at the Baltic Sea border agencies and documents. The findings suggest that, although collaboration is burdened with bureaucratic difficulties, there is a common understanding of purpose among the project participants. These border officers’ common declared their objective is to fight criminality and createa safer Europe. However, the participants possessing different organizational and cultural backgrounds have to adapt to adopta common language (in officers’ terms EU-English), common schemes of categorizing (inside-outside distinctions), and develop a sense of trust and identity. Collaboration is claimed by the informants, and is best achieved through getting involved ineveryday practices. They worked side by side, and spent free time together rather than following bureaucratic rules and regulations.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2017

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

117-140

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Applied Security Research

Volym

12

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Sociology

Nyckelord

  • border guards, policing borders, Baltic Sea area, policing migration, cooperation, European border politics, intelligence and operational police work, surveillance, collaboration, qualitative interviews, field work, field notes, collaboration identity

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1936-1610