Many recent studies have interpreted the extraterritorialization of migratory controls in the per-spective of the state of exception. The hypothesis suggested in the essay is that border spaces are not regulated areas of void or legal suspension, but the expression of security practices in-cluded in the political guidelines of democratic states. Indeed border areas are not conceived to create a unique and unified barrier between included and excluded, but to grade the system of rights according to circumstances and situations. Therefore, the reorganization of spatial coordinates signals the emergence of a geography of security interweaving governmental approaches, management styles and diversified and flexible protocols, an integral part of the more gen-eral political and legal developments
