ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a more critical notion on the results of securitisation processes. It analyses how surveillance of individuals based on their financial capabilities expends the categories of threat, indicating new selection measures based on the security narratives associated with particular migrant groups. The chapter provides an overview of the theoretical background of this mobile ethnographic study. It suggests that late modern European societies are developing a new understanding of control as a form of social sorting that leads to blurred lines between safety and social security in the European Union. The chapter presents a critical adaption of the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, and its relevance in exploring transnational Roma mobility. Legal borders for population selection are thus intertwined with an internal selection based on labour participation, and with avoiding and expelling the unemployed, welfare-dependent newcomer.
