Axis 3: Legal and administrative responsibilities: infrastructures

1) What are the infrastructures that enables the implementation of security mechanisms to control mobility? 2) How does the law apprehend the body, notably through legal standards, in the management of mobility? With the sharing and emulation of standards and modes of managing transnational mobility (e.g., sharing biometric databases, establishing partnerships with NGOs and companies to ensure the so-called “voluntary” return of migrants) comes a globalization of administrative and legal infrastructures. A case in point is the dissemination of standards and procedures established by the International Organization for Migration, which started out as an NGO assisting states before becoming the UN’s official body for global migration management in 2016. The questioning of the role of legal infrastructures that comes with the multiplication, internationalization and privatization of borders raises the issue of state responsibility in the processes of securing borders and the role of law in these processes. This section will examine the role of law as a crucial infrastructure for managing the mobility of objects and people.