The unexpected and overwhelming wave against authoritarianism began in 2011 likely will continue touring the Maghreb and the Middle East for years, and is not to be expected that this trend will be reversed. This new stage represents a great...

The entry of Spain and Portugal into the EEC in 1986 marked a relaunch of bilateral relations. He also promoted contact between local authorities on both sides of a border, the Spanish-Portuguese, which had functioned as a real barrier in recent...

Despite the fact that the fight against the so-called clandestine immigration is one of the priority principles of the European policy on immigration, the unauthorized migration flows have continued to increase in recent years in countries like...

This article is to analyze the role of the borders in the political construction of the cross-border metropolis in Europe. Firstly, a reflection on the process of emergence of the cross-border metropolis, is carried out in order to underline...

Immigrants arriving illegally in the EU are facing a series of apparent risks, so their safety has raised widespread concern. However, they only represent a small percentage of the total number of undocumented immigrants that exist in Europe,...

In 2004 the EU approved the creation of its 19 th independent agency: FRONTEX. Since its commissioning has focused especially, at the request of Spain, in the deployment of operations of border controls aimed at the reduction of migratory flows...