Cover -- Table of Contents -- Schengen: removing borders while building fences? (Alice Cunha, Marta Silva and Rui Frederico) -- Schengen: people, borders and mobility (Carlos Coelho) -- Part I. The Free Circulation Of Persons: Actors, Policies And Challenges -- Dialogues beyond the ̒ fortress Europe': Tracing back the genesis and evolution of the ̒ free circulation of persons' concept through EP Schengen Area debates, 1985-2015 (Cristina Blanco Sío-López) -- The EUʼs security actorness and the area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Assessing the external dimension of the internal rationale (Ana Isabel Xavier) -- The role of Schengen in the Europeanization of the migration policy: The Italian case (Simone Paoli) -- Romaniaʼs Schengen accession bid: a sinuous path (Nicolae Păun*and Adrian-Gabriel Corpădean) -- The Charter of Lampedusa: Organised civil society in the EU multi-level system of governance (Leila Giannetto) -- Part II. Mobility and border management -- Schengen and the security obsession: selective citizenship, exclusion and the ironies of control (Octávio Sacramento) -- Changing Dynamics of "Migration Management": The "Border" between the EU and Africa (Burcu Toğral Koca) -- Respect for fundamental rights at the door of fortress Europe: The particular situation of Ceuta and Melilla in the Schengen Area (Alejandra Germán Doldán) -- Immigration policy within "fortress Europe": The legalisation of "hot returns" in Spain (Lucía Payero López) -- Migration-related detention: A focus on the Italian context (Francesca Esposito, José Ornelas, Caterina Arcidiacono) -- Contributors.