ABSTRACT
By analysing the Schengen visa regime from the perspective of mobility, this chapter shows that it is the operational logics of this security dispositif which compel migrants to engage in practices of appropriation in the first place. In brief, the chapter demonstrates that the Schengen visa regime resembles, from migrants’ perspective, an unpredictable regime of institutionalised distrust that renders mobility to Europe as scarce resource by introducing an entry-ticket, a Schengen visa. Receipt of such an entry-ticket is, however, subject to conditions that a significant share of the population cannot fulfil as these conditions do not correspond to local circumstances.
