ABSTRACT
Originally understood as a biological function of junction between self and other than self, immunity has over the centuries taken on the sense of an aggressive military apparatus that shapes physical and symbolic securitising spaces. Based on immunity as the “mythical iconic object” that has symbolically, legally, and physically shaped modern and contemporary society and securitisation as the contemporary paradigm of governance this chapter analyses how the dynamics of immunity take shape in the Schengen area and in different member states and how supranational and national borders, both physical and legal, act and react within an immunity regime to conditions of risk and exception.
