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

With a track-record of using Freedom of Information mechanisms, Luděk Stavinoha is perfectly placed to shine a light on the everyday workings of EU ‘border bureaucracies’ such as Frontex and the European Commission. By analysing a large corpus of internal records and interviewing EU officials, transparency activists and journalists, Luděk will illuminate the mundane bureaucratic practices whereby opacity surrounding EU migration policy is enacted and contested at the level of the everyday.