DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
MOREN, Kikki, "Den europeiske festning"? - asylpolitik og politisamarbeid mot 1992; autumn 91, Institute for sociology of law, Oslo university, St.Olavsgt.29, N-0166 Oslo 1. This dissertation in norweigian offers an excellent critical survey on the subject: The development of European refugee policies, the background of the harmonization of asylum policies, the Schengen treaty, the Dublin Convention, the group of coordinators, the increasing police cooperation and its backgrounds, the role of police data banks and their effects on civil liberties, the increase of preventive "crime control" conceptions in police cooperation, centralized information - centralized power, invisible surveillance, legal security versus "state security", TREVI: from the combat against terrorism to the combat against immigration, policymaking behind closed doors...
More than just an academical dissertation the book is an easy to read and inspiring essay that diserves to be spread widely among Scandinavians eager to know more about Europe.
CALOZ-TSCHOPP, Marie-Claire, La "communauté politique" européenne et les groupes "intergouvernementaux" , Fragments d'une logique d'action et de pensée à l'oeuvre dans l'édification de nouvelles frontières européennes; Revue suisse de sociologie, 1 (1991) p.49-80.
An Essay on the problematic and contradictions of "one" European "political community" and police institutions based on secret intergovernmental cooperation.
ASYLKOORDINATION SCHWEIZ, Freizügigkeit im Personenverkehr und Grundrechte in Europa , Octobre 91; BODS, Postfach 8553, CH-3001 Bern.
Position paper of the Swiss asylum movement on a report of a commission of experts of the Swiss Federal Dept. of Justice and Police on "control of persons at the border". The paper also contains a program of propositions for a new "universalist" approach of the issues of asylum and migration. Healthy reading for anybody who has lost his capacity to imagine creative alternatives to the "fortress" ideology.
ON THE RECORD , quarterly bulletin, editors: T.Thomas, B.Hebenton, Dept. of Social Studies, Leeds Polytechnic, Caverley Street, Leeds LS1 3HE, U.K.
"On the record" is a cuttings list of questions asked and answers given on policing matters in the British Houses of Parliament.