Europe's borders are the deadliest in the world. Life and death, humanity and enmity, life-saving and everyday racism meet at the former markers of colonial territories. Migration as a central question of the present also has an impact on the interior of a tense society: Who is allowed to come to us? Who is marked as illegal? Where are enemy images condensed? Heidrun Friese understands current migration policies as part of a war scenario and shows their inner logic of enmity and death politics. She formulates the existential question of the universality of human rights and pleads for responsibility and accountability .