ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that the fear of migration has been and still is an important aspect of ongoing processes of sociospatial bordering of immigrants within the European Union (EU) and its various member states. The recent EU enlargement involving many post-Soviet nations has but intensified these sentiments. The chapter offers an alternative to the well-known yet flawed Fortress Europe metaphor. It also argues that the moral panic caused by immigration and the migration policies adopted by the EU follows a geostrategic logic which closely resembles that at work in the management of a gated community. The chapter examines that the EU has 'modernized' its immigration policy, with a specific focus on containing asylum migration, fighting irregular/ migration and extending European migration policy to countries of origin and transit. Non-EU countries are urged to more firmly control emigration, and development aid is increasingly tied to agreements obliging so-called third countries 'to take back illegal migrants'.
