Titlebook: Engineering Digitised Borders; Designing and Managi Georgios Glouftsios Book 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature

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Heterogeneity, Practice-Networks, Agency Actor-Network Theory (ANT) scholarly tradition and the New Materialisms movement. I introduce a set of analytical sensitivities that are useful to (a) attend to the heterogeneous engineering of the VIS as a way to eschew technological determinism; (b) make sense of how the VIS materialises within t

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“Free” Movement, the Interface, and Heterogeneous Engineers the heterogeneous engineers involved. I begin my analysis by discussing the establishment of the EU Schengen Area as a controlled space of circulation, and I explain that systems like the VIS have been introduced as security measures compensating for the perceived risks associated with the (partial

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Governing the System Multipleocess. I suggest that the ontology of the VIS is mutant and multiple, rather than fixed and singular. While in the design phase of its lifecycle the VIS emerges as a projected socio-technical assemblage that is expected to shape the governing of international mobility in the EU, within the process o

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The Birth of eu-LISA (eu-LISA). I do so, by discussing the different concerns and problematisations that led to its establishment back in 2011, and by presenting its organisational structure and core tasks. This introduction is necessary to familiarise readers with this relatively new EU Agency, which plays a crucial r

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