Examining how migrants appropriate mobility in the context of biometric border controls, this volume mobilizes new analytics and empirics in the debates about the politics of migration and provides an analytically effective and politically significant tool for the study of contemporary migration.

Stephan Scheel is working as an assistant professor at the sociology department of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. He was previously a researcher on the project 'ARITHMUS - How Data Make a People' at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Stephan holds a PhD from the Department for Politics and International Studies at the Open University in Milton Keynes. His thesis has been awarded the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) in 2015.

Introduction 1. Biometric Rebordering Revisited: Beyond the Control Bias and Policy Gaps 2. Autonomy of Migration within Biometric Border Regimes? 3. Rethinking the Autonomy of Migration: Rethinking Autonomy 4. Deconstructing the Trickster Narrative: the Visa Regime as an Unpredictable Regime of Institutionalised Distrust 5. At the Consulate: Appropriating Mobility within and against Biometric Border Regimes 6. Encounters at the Airport: Embarrassing Performances of Sovereign Power 7. Rendering Europe a Vast Borderzone: On the Irreducible Ambivalence of Migrants' Practices of Appropriation Conclusion: Autonomy of Migration Reloaded