Short Bio
Eline Wærp is a postdoctoral researcher at the FAU’s Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN), focusing on the digitalization of EU air border controls and its impacts on perceptions of risk. She has a PhD in Migration Studies from Malmö University, where she focused on Frontex’s production of a securitized border knowledge.
Eline’s research sits at the intersection of Critical Border and Migration Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). She is interested in how new digital tools such as the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES), the European Travel Authorisation and Information System (ETIAS), and the Digital Travel Credential (DTC) impact how border control at airports take place, and as a result, travelers’ journey.
- Waerp, E. (2025). EUrope’s Exaggerated Return Conundrum. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2025.2504886
- Waerp, E. (2025). Nordic Exceptionalism? How Scandinavian Border and Coast Guards Rationalize their Participation in Frontex Operations. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 15(3). DOI: 10.33134/njmr.855
- Waerp, E. (2025). Studying the Absurdity of EU Border Controls. Current Issues in Migration Research (CIMR), Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration (MIM).
- Waerp, E. (2024). Devious Refugees and Harmless borders? How Frontex Inverts Deviance and Blame. Race & Class, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968241291509
- Waerp, E. (2024). The Age of Frontex – Banal Securitization and its Normalization in EUropean External(ized) Border Management. PhD dissertation, Department of Global Political Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University.