“…French liaison officers are an inheritance of colonial history, but now also take part in the construction of a growing international interconnection of police activities and the 'transnationalization of the bureaucracies of control', related to the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and irregular migration (Bigo, 1996). ILOs, specialized in the fight against irregular migration, emerged in the 1990s and have been described as a part of the construction of European migration controls (Bigo, 1996(Bigo, , 2006Casella Colombeau and Clochard, 2012;Clochard, 2010;Lutterbeck, 2005;Samers, 2004). However, just as a closer examination of cooperation on border control (Darley, 2008;Jeandesboz, 2010) uncovers persisting national logics in the field, so too does closer scrutiny of the practices of ILOs.…”