No. 1 (2025)
Othering and Belonging. Construction and treatment of otherness

Publications

Inadmissible. The construction of the ‘migration risk’ within airport transit zones in France

Published 2025-10-02

  • Anna Tagliabue

Anna Tagliabue
Università degli Studi di Palermo

Othering and Belonging. Costruzione e trattamento delle alterità

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the social and legal dynamics through which border practices create the profile of the ‘inadmissible migrant’. Through an ethnographic study carried out within French airport transit zones, it proposes a reflection on border control practices and the notion of migratory risk as the main tool for classifying and hierarchizing mobility.

Keywords

borders; airports; mobility; border police; State; ethnography.

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