The State is the Secret. For a relational approach to the study of border and mobility control in Europe

Research objective: This chapter will help researchers who want to experiment with a relational, performative, immanent approach to research in technopolitical security contexts. Research puzzle : The puzzle the chapter addresses in relation to secrecy and method concerns the gap between accountability requirements posed on democratic states, on one hand, and technopolitical decisions often taken apart from public scrutiny, on the other hand, in contexts in which the state engages in transnational multi-actor and multi-level relationships.