ABSTRACT
For centuries in Europe, the territory between city-states was of no great concern to sovereign powers, which were more preoccupied with those who lived in the city and determining how many people could enter in relation to how many would leave. This chapter illustrates the role of Frontex acting as a linkage between European Union (EU) member states and other countries by coordinating immigration policies and legislations at the border, wherever it may be. It deals with the nature of extraterritorial European migration control. The chapter explains how the desire of the dispositif of European migration control is to render migrants' bodies literally invisible instead of martyrs. It argues that the system of externalization of migration control and African movements are affected by a reciprocal conditionality in an incessant cycle of deterritorialization and reterritorialization, without denying the massive centripetal force that Europe exercises over Africa in terms of capitalism and neoliberal models.
