The Evolution and Relevance of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in Shaping the Asylum and Migration Securitization Process in the European Union

The aim of the article is to analyze importance European Border and Coast Guard Agency in ongoing process securitization asylum migration Union countries. Therefore, paper will attempt answer following research questions: how has evolution Agency’s activities contributed securitisation can all Frontex’s core tasks be considered practices? also attempts attribute main two types practices proposed by Thierry Balzacq: (1) traditional that have been implemented address what are largely perceived as security issues; (2) extraordinary activities, not only sense ‘exceptional’ or ‘illegal’ but more broadly ‘unusual’ is, never before used rarely relation asylum.