Antonia-Maria Sarantaki is postdoctoral researcher in the School of Economics and Political Sciences at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and academic fellow in the Department of International and European Economic Studies at Athens University of Economics and Business. She holds an MSc Econ in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK and a PhD in European Politics from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. Her PhD thesis focused on borders and the EU border control policy regime.

• 1. Introduction: the irrelevancy of Schengenland and Frontex’s riseBorder evolutionNew ‘kids’ on the border control blockSetting Frontex’s scene Border control actors Speaking of culture Cultures of border control To Schengen or not to Schengen? A new border control culture?Book overview NotesReferences 2. Frontex: an insurgent border control actor IntroductionFrontex’s birth Frontex’s governance Frontex’s expansion Frontex’s institutional brigadeFrontex’s deedsFrontex’s role in EU border control: reviewing the literature Towards Frontex’s reinvigoration: bringing culture in ConclusionNotesReferences 3. Constructing Frontex’s culture IntroductionFrontex: the essential EU border control actor Delving into Frontex’s cultural traits ConclusionNotesReferences 4. Constructing the border of Lampedusa IntroductionThe island settingThe making of a borderBorder control conduct and actorsFrontex on the fieldBorder control assumptions and practices in Lampedusa ConclusionNotesReferences 5. Constructing the border of Evros IntroductionThe river settingThe making of a borderBorder control conduct and actorsFrontex on the fieldBorder control assumptions and practices in EvrosEvros and Lampedusa: drawing differences and similaritiesConclusionNotesReferences 6. Border control in process: the rise of Warsaw cultureIntroductionCulture loading And its name shall be Warsaw culture Schengen, Westphalia, Brussels, and Warsaw: variant in name only? From Schengen to Warsaw Frontex in WarsawOut of Frontex’s box: EU institutions in WarsawConclusionNotesReferences 7. Challenges to Warsaw culture IntroductionUnsettling a settled culture Brexit and the English ChannelBorders amid the COVID-19 pandemic Borders and hard security ConclusionNotesReferences 8. Conclusion: Frontex’s leadership and the re-drawing of EU border controlEvolving borders The rise of a new border control culture The Frontex effect Frontex’s cultural impactBetween a rock and a hard place?Looking ahead Concluding reflectionsNotesReferences

Antonia-Maria Sarantaki is postdoctoral researcher in the School of Economics and Political Sciences at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and academic fellow in the Department of International and European Economic Studies at Athens University of Economics and Business. She holds an MSc Econ in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK and a PhD in European Politics from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. Her PhD thesis focused on borders and the EU border control policy regime.

• 1. Introduction: the irrelevancy of Schengenland and Frontex’s riseBorder evolutionNew ‘kids’ on the border control blockSetting Frontex’s scene Border control actors Speaking of culture Cultures of border control To Schengen or not to Schengen? A new border control culture?Book overview NotesReferences 2. Frontex: an insurgent border control actor IntroductionFrontex’s birth Frontex’s governance Frontex’s expansion Frontex’s institutional brigadeFrontex’s deedsFrontex’s role in EU border control: reviewing the literature Towards Frontex’s reinvigoration: bringing culture in ConclusionNotesReferences 3. Constructing Frontex’s culture IntroductionFrontex: the essential EU border control actor Delving into Frontex’s cultural traits ConclusionNotesReferences 4. Constructing the border of Lampedusa IntroductionThe island settingThe making of a borderBorder control conduct and actorsFrontex on the fieldBorder control assumptions and practices in Lampedusa ConclusionNotesReferences 5. Constructing the border of Evros IntroductionThe river settingThe making of a borderBorder control conduct and actorsFrontex on the fieldBorder control assumptions and practices in EvrosEvros and Lampedusa: drawing differences and similaritiesConclusionNotesReferences 6. Border control in process: the rise of Warsaw cultureIntroductionCulture loading And its name shall be Warsaw culture Schengen, Westphalia, Brussels, and Warsaw: variant in name only? From Schengen to Warsaw Frontex in WarsawOut of Frontex’s box: EU institutions in WarsawConclusionNotesReferences 7. Challenges to Warsaw culture IntroductionUnsettling a settled culture Brexit and the English ChannelBorders amid the COVID-19 pandemic Borders and hard security ConclusionNotesReferences 8. Conclusion: Frontex’s leadership and the re-drawing of EU border controlEvolving borders The rise of a new border control culture The Frontex effect Frontex’s cultural impactBetween a rock and a hard place?Looking ahead Concluding reflectionsNotesReferences

Antonia-Maria Sarantaki is postdoctoral researcher in the School of Economics and Political Sciences at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and academic fellow in the Department of International and European Economic Studies at Athens University of Economics and Business. She holds an MSc Econ in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK and a PhD in European Politics from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. Her PhD thesis focused on borders and the EU border control policy regime.

• 1. Introduction: the irrelevancy of Schengenland and Frontex’s riseBorder evolutionNew ‘kids’ on the border control blockSetting Frontex’s scene Border control actors Speaking of culture Cultures of border control To Schengen or not to Schengen? A new border control culture?Book overview NotesReferences 2. Frontex: an insurgent border control actor IntroductionFrontex’s birth Frontex’s governance Frontex’s expansion Frontex’s institutional brigadeFrontex’s deedsFrontex’s role in EU border control: reviewing the literature Towards Frontex’s reinvigoration: bringing culture in ConclusionNotesReferences 3. Constructing Frontex’s culture IntroductionFrontex: the essential EU border control actor Delving into Frontex’s cultural traits ConclusionNotesReferences 4. Constructing the border of Lampedusa IntroductionThe island settingThe making of a borderBorder control conduct and actorsFrontex on the fieldBorder control assumptions and practices in Lampedusa ConclusionNotesReferences 5. Constructing the border of Evros IntroductionThe river settingThe making of a borderBorder control conduct and actorsFrontex on the fieldBorder control assumptions and practices in EvrosEvros and Lampedusa: drawing differences and similaritiesConclusionNotesReferences 6. Border control in process: the rise of Warsaw cultureIntroductionCulture loading And its name shall be Warsaw culture Schengen, Westphalia, Brussels, and Warsaw: variant in name only? From Schengen to Warsaw Frontex in WarsawOut of Frontex’s box: EU institutions in WarsawConclusionNotesReferences 7. Challenges to Warsaw culture IntroductionUnsettling a settled culture Brexit and the English ChannelBorders amid the COVID-19 pandemic Borders and hard security ConclusionNotesReferences 8. Conclusion: Frontex’s leadership and the re-drawing of EU border controlEvolving borders The rise of a new border control culture The Frontex effect Frontex’s cultural impactBetween a rock and a hard place?Looking ahead Concluding reflectionsNotesReferences