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Two caseworkers of a Swedish border police unit, a police officer and a civil employee, are holding a meeting with a family, a mother and her three daughters, at a small local police station. Since the family speaks Albanian, an Albanian telephone translator is called, but one of the daughters speaks Swedish well enough so that at times the translator is not needed.

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    When we refer to ‘Europe ’ and the ‘European’ migration regime , we refer to the states that have signed onto the Schengen and Dublin Agreements. While our empirical focus is on the internal dynamics of the Schengen Area , where member states share a significant amount of border and migration-related laws and policies, a political intention geared towards ‘harmonisation’, and an apparatus of organisational structures in place for inter-agency cooperation, these states also form part of the larger, contested political project that is ‘Europe ’. The geographical, discursive and judicial demarcation of an inside/outside of European space is instrumentalised to reify and externalise not only border controls, but also a series of problems and ‘crises’ against which Europe is portrayed as a peaceful, coherent entity (see De Genova 2017) . By engaging with and empirically exploring the internal border dynamics, we also wish to contribute to deconstructing this inside/outside binary, showing instead the internal fragmentation and contradictions of this ‘EUropean project’ (Bialasiewicz et al. 2013).

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    Tobias G. Eule

  2. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Lisa Marie Borrelli

  3. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Annika Lindberg

  4. University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Anna Wyss

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Eule, T.G., Borrelli, L.M., Lindberg, A., Wyss, A. (2019). Introduction. In: Migrants Before the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98749-1_1

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