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This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Using an original case study, private contractors that implement EU visa policy on governments’ behalf, the author focuses on visa application centers located in Morocco and run by the two major contractors of European Member States, the transnational corporations VFSGlobal and TLSContact. The analysis builds on ethnographic research that encompasses the making of EU visa policy at the European, national and local levels. It aims at uncovering the reasons that have led to the adoption of outsourcing as a normal and legitimized mode to implement EU visa policy and the effects of that choice. .

Border security --- Visas --- Independent contractors --- Sécurité frontalière --- Entrepreneurs indépendants --- Passports --- Law and legislation --- European Union. --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Migration. --- Comparative politics. --- Public policy. --- Public administration. --- European Union Politics. --- European Politics. --- Comparative Politics. --- Public Policy. --- Public Administration. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- border control --- public administration --- comparative study --- case study --- Morocco --- visa policy --- External borders and visas --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Europe --- Comparative government. --- Political planning. --- Human Migration. --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Public administration --- Gay culture Europe --- Politics and government.