CHALLENGE OF THE THRESHOLD

the discursive and conceptual frameworks that constitute the backbone of threshold policies aiming to keep undesirables beyond borders, the constitution of stopping places, intermediate areas and relay towns, which all represent threshold spaces that challenge local urban equilibria, and the experience of liminality, in which individuals caught for a time between two states (as migrant on the road and as immigrant, the state to which they aspire), experience the typically ambiguous situations characteristic of threshold people (Turner). While ambitioning to innovate theoretically and methodologically, the volume is above all