Immigration to Europe increasingly emerges as a core security concern. In response to these growing anxieties the external border of Schengen space of free movement of people was established to limit uncontrolled immigration to the European Union. Yet, looking closely at how this border works in Lampedusa and its surrounding seawaters, one realizes the functioning of the European external border works to undermine the legitimacy of institutions on the island, de facto challenging law enforcement both on the island as well as at sea. Based on the data collected during the six-months-long fieldwork that I conducted on the island, this paper disentangles the complex machinery of the border as it structures in Lampedusa, and presents how such complex governing technology works through authorities’ strategic use of local land and seawaters and their simultaneous neglect for the concerns of the population inhabiting them – representing a major source of insecurity for islanders.

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证券化是不安全的根源：从底层看欧洲在兰佩杜萨的外部边界的运作

移民欧洲越来越成为一个核心安全问题。为了应对这些日益增长的焦虑，建立了人员自由流动的申根空间的外部边界，以限制不受控制的移民到欧盟。然而，仔细观察这条边界在兰佩杜萨及其周围海水中的运作方式，人们意识到欧洲外部边界的运作破坏了岛上机构的合法性，事实上挑战了岛上和海上的执法. 根据我在岛上进行的为期六个月的实地调查收集的数据，本文解开了兰佩杜萨边境的复杂机制，