Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Rebordering Europe -- 2. Civilizing the Postsocialist Frontier? -- 3. I'm Not Really Here: The Time-Space of Itinerant Lives -- 4. Seeing like a Border Guard: Strategies of Surveillance -- 5. Economic Migrants Beyond Demand: Asylum and the Politics of Classification -- 6. Capacity Building and Other Technicalities: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone -- 7. The Border as Intertext: Memory, Belonging, and the Search for a New Narrative -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix: Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Building Fortress Europe is an ethnographic examination of the human, social, and political consequences of developing a specialized, targeted, and legally advanced border regime in the enlarged European Union, exploring the intersection between border policing and the lives of migrants, framed by the contradictions of European integration.

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