Bernd Kasparek is a migration scholar and activist with a focus on border studies. He is a founding member of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (kritnet) and a member of the managing board of the research association bordermonitoring.eu. Currently, he is completing his PhD project on the Europeanization of the border regime. He is the co-editor of Grenzregime: Diskurse, Praktiken, Institutionen in Europa (2010), a collection of texts concerned with the dynamics, actors, discourses, and practices of the European border regime, as well as the successor volume Grenzregime 3: Der lange Sommer der Migration (2016), on the so-called Summer of Migration in 2015. His most recent book is Europas Grenzen (2017).