ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reconstructs the process of border definition in the European Union, starting from the 1990s, resulting from global pressures and internal political dynamics, on the basis of dialectic of Europeanisation on the one hand and defence of sovereignty on the other. It discusses the concept of phantom borders — borders that emerge and vanish over time — in relation to the building of social and institutional space in Libya. The book also discusses the migrants’ living conditions in the centers for identification and expulsions, with a main focus on the preliminary procedure before their restraint in these spaces that are real detention centres. It examines immigrant couples who, due to consanguinity, have an increased risk of recessive genetic diseases in their offspring, in Boundaries and precision medicine in consanguineous migrant couples.
