ABSTRACT
The securitization of migration, now an integral part of European integration, has created new ‘border existences’ (Banerjee 2010) for those states that line the external EU border, both within the EU and its immediate neighbors, and new existences for transnational migrant subjects who arrive within the EU. These borderlands are the new security zones created by EU expansion and the CEAS, and contested by transnational migrant subjects. They create a new kind of marginality, the gendered dimensions of which, focusing on women, are documented and analyzed in this book. This chapter returns to each of the key tensions and research questions that guided this inquiry across the four stages of the migratory journey: Exit, transit, arrival and onward migration. It identifies pathways to transcend these tensions and, as such, attempts to engage a wider audience that includes policy makers and legislators, on strategies that may address the current impasse.
