ZigZag Terms Flashcards
What is Frontex?
The mission of Frontex - the European Border and Coast Guard Agency - is to promote, coordinate and develop European border management in line with the EU fundamental rights charter and the concept of Integrated Border Management.
What do Frontex do?
Monitoring migratory flows and carrying out risk analysis regarding all aspects of integrated border management.
Carrying out a vulnerability assessment, including assessing Member States’ capacity and readiness to face threats and challenges at their external borders.
Monitoring the management of the external borders through the Agency’s liaison officers in Member States.
Coordinating and organising joint operations and rapid border interventions to assist Member States at the external borders, including in humanitarian emergencies and rescue at sea.
Supporting search and rescue operations that arise during border surveillance operations at sea.
Deploying European Border and Coast Guard teams, including a rapid reaction pool for joint operations and rapid border interventions and within the framework of the migration management support teams.
Creating a technical equipment pool for deployment in joint operations, rapid border interventions and in the framework of migration management support teams, as well as in return operations and return interventions.
Providing support at hotspot areas with screening, debriefing, identification and fingerprinting; establishing a procedure for referring and providing initial information people who need, or wish to apply for, international protection; cooperating with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and national authorities.
Circular migration
the temporary and usually repetitive movement of a migrant worker between home and host areas, typically for the purpose of employment.
Cons of the quota system
- Eastern European countries strongly object to taking part in the quota system because they cannot financially support even a small amount of migrants. (Remember asylum seekers cannot legally work in a country until they get the right paperwork which usually takes 12 months.)
- More than half of the 63 refugees given asylum in Latvia under the EU quota system have fled to Germany and other richer EU countries, many claiming it is better for them to live in a refugee centre than in a Baltic state
Pros of the quota system.
it’s proportional so can be seen to be fair
Frontex main facts
They are the European border and coast guard agency. It is made up of 82 people, they have a budget of €35m and access to 21 aeroplanes, 27 helicopters and 116 boats. However these are owned by the nations of the eu and not frontex so they need permission to use them.
