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In this chapter, I attend to the ontological multiplicity of the VIS and craft a conceptual toolbox to better understand the operational management process. I suggest that the ontology of the VIS is mutant and multiple, rather than fixed and singular. While in the design phase of its lifecycle the VIS emerges as a projected socio-technical assemblage that is expected to shape the governing of international mobility in the EU, within the process of operational management it materialises as an unstable, failing, and insecure data infrastructure that requires continuous maintenance, repair, and protection. To understand and study operational management, I will suggest that we should see it as a process within which the material agency of the VIS is governed.
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Glouftsios, G. (2021). Governing the System Multiple. In: Engineering Digitised Borders. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3402-4_5
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