Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security.

Didier Bigo is Professor of International Relations in Sciences-Po, Paris and Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Didier Bigo is also Scientific Coordinator of the 6PCRD of the EU Commission Challenge, Editor of the forthcoming ISA journal International Political Sociology and Editor of the French journal Cultures et Conflits. Elspeth Guild is Professor of European Immigration Law in Nijmegen, in The Netherlands. She is also Visiting Professor at the L.S.E London and at Sciences-Po Paris, and Partner of Kingsley Napley, JHA supervisor for CEPS.

Contents: Introduction: policing in the name of freedom, Didier Bigo and Elspeth Guild; The legal framework: who is entitled to move?, Elspeth Guild; Frontier controls in the European Union: who is in control?, Didier Bigo; Who is entitled to work and who is in charge? Understanding the legal framework of European labour migration, Elspeth Guild; Where does the State actually start? The contemporary governance of work and migration, John Crowley; Looking at migrants as enemies, Anastassia Tsoukala; The control of the enemy within? Police intelligence in the French suburbs (banlieues) and its relevance for globalization, Laurent Bonelli; Policing by dossier: identification and surveillance in an era of uncertainty and fear, Ayse Ceyhan; Policing at a distance: Schengen visa policies, Didier Bigo and Elspeth Guild; Bibliography; Index.