ABSTRACT
This chapter offers comprehensive insight into the EU-Turkish border interactions and assesses the merit and limitations of different analytics of border control. It introduces a politically salient border control analytics, but is argued to suffer from severe ontological, epistemological and methodological shortcomings, making it ill-equipped to understand the phenomenon of border control. Then, through the concept of externalisation, it is shown how the Turkish border system is integrated into the larger functionality of the European mobility regime, where regime means a system regulated according to a certain rationale. The chapter focuses on the EU/Turkish membership negotiations. The EU/Turkish borderscapes involve processes of transnational circulation of flows of funds, people, equipment and virtual information. Focusing the analysis on tracing the infrastructural evolution of the EU/Turkish borderscapes allows people to view border control as the opposite of staticity and linearity; as sites of flows managed in real-time, rather than the negation of mobility.
