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.

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
Acknowledgments

Karolina S. Follis has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and is currently affiliated with the Law School at Lancaster University.