What would the Schengen area enlargement in 2024 mean for the daily work of border control workers? What will be the effects on the work floor and how would the border guards emotionally express their satisfaction or disappointment? For this research, organisational ethnographer Ioana Vrabiescu received a grant from NWO's Open Competition SSH-XS programme. She will be the principal investigator of the project leading to new ways of conceptualizing and debating emotions in organizations, specifically when it comes to borders and migration. Starting 2024, Romania and Bulgaria might join the Schengen area. For many, including recent refugees from Ukraine, it will become easier to move across the EU extended territories and borders. Vrabiescu's project will look into how practices at the EU-Schengen borders change and what kind of tension these changes create on the daily workings of border guards. Vrabiescu, together with her research team, will conduct fieldwork at the Bucharest Otopeni Airport in Romania and at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The research team will specifically focus on the intra-EU movement from Romania to the Netherlands, Ukrainians being an example.
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