ABSTRACT
This chapter explores to question the granted territorial understandings of European borders understanding that reinforce the vision of Lampedusa as a national and 'European' geopolitical border, struggling with the regulation' of immigration flows pressing at the gates' of Europe. It argues that such understandings of the camp still remain anchored firmly to the modern geopolitical imagination and the notion of territorial-national borders, failing to capture the de-territorialized and mobile nature of European Union (EU) borders today. The chapter explains that we should conceptualize places like Lampedusa as temporary stages' of a continuing bordering process that connects both European and non-European spaces. It explores the emergent European geography further from the perspective of those who are mobile, from the perspective of the unlocalizable. This chapter describes that in order to deepen our understanding of the operation of Europe's de-territorialized borders; we need to take mobility and its resulting trajectories into consideration.
