Abstract
The Schengen agreement was signed in 1985 when 5 countries, Benelux, France and Germany decided for the very first time to create a space of free circulation. The aim of this article is to analyse the contradictions and limits of a geopolitical or juridical approach to the Schengen space. For this reason the article puts forward a foucaldian approach to analyse the Schengen space as a «security device», in the sense used by Foucault in his lessons of 1977-1978. The article aims also to complexify some of the usual categories deployed in borders and migrations studies, such as the opposition between inclusion and exclusion, between legal and illegal migrants, in order to point out that the border government tends more to regulate mobility through the differantiation of migration fluxes rather than managing the immobilisation of migrations.
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