Real Fake? Appropriating Mobility via Schengen Visa in the Context of Biometric Border Controls

Stephan Scheel is working as post-doctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project ‘ARITHMUS – How Data Make a People’ at the sociology department of Goldsmiths, University of London. Before joining the ARITHMUS project, Stephan completed his PhD at the department of Political and International Studies of the Open University in Milton Keynes (UK). His doctoral thesis has been awarded the Michael Nicholson Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) in 2015. It investigates how migrants appropriate mobility in the context of biometric border controls in order to demonstrate the persistence of moments of autonomy of migration in technologically ever more sophisticated border regimes. In general, Stephan’s research interests lie at the intersection of border and migration studies, citizenship studies, critical security studies and science and technology studies.