This article argues that the European biometric ID installations and securitization practices at West African borders harm African migrants and compromise the security goals of Europe and Africa. Using Niger's experience, I contend that migrants' poor adaption to the biometric border processes is closely connected to their identity conflicts, as well as their atomization and weakening of their social integration. The new border security measures are implicated in the state's criminalizing and dehumanizing practices which migrants and borderbrokers experience every day. I coin two concepts, namely, biometric reborderization and agentic deborderization, to draw close attention to ways by which the European biometric projects are significantly reconfiguring African borders. These borders now represent both a dynamic space for migration control, and contested sites of biometric circumvention and subversion by biometric noncompliant migrants who constantly negotiate alternative means for mobilities. Moral mobility agents contest/circumvent European biometric reborderization via the use of parallel border routes.Related ArticlesByrne, Jennifer. 2016. "Contextual Identity among Liberian Refugees in Ghana: Identity Salience in a Protracted Refugee Situation." Politics & Policy 44(4): 751-82. . Djeufack Dongmo, Aristophane, and D & eacute;sir & eacute; Avom. 2024. "Urbanization, Civil Conflict, and the Severity of Food Insecurity in Africa." Politics & Policy 52(1): 140-68. . Garrett, Terence M., and Arthur J. Sementelli. 2023. "Revisiting the Policy Implications of COVID-19, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Creating (and Maintaining) States of Exception in the Trump and Biden Administrations." Politics & Policy 51(3): 458-75. .Related ArticlesByrne, Jennifer. 2016. "Contextual Identity among Liberian Refugees in Ghana: Identity Salience in a Protracted Refugee Situation." Politics & Policy 44(4): 751-82. . Djeufack Dongmo, Aristophane, and D & eacute;sir & eacute; Avom. 2024. "Urbanization, Civil Conflict, and the Severity of Food Insecurity in Africa." Politics & Policy 52(1): 140-68. . Garrett, Terence M., and Arthur J. Sementelli. 2023. "Revisiting the Policy Implications of COVID-19, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Creating (and Maintaining) States of Exception in the Trump and Biden Administrations." Politics & Policy 51(3): 458-75. .Related ArticlesByrne, Jennifer. 2016. "Contextual Identity among Liberian Refugees in Ghana: Identity Salience in a Protracted Refugee Situation." Politics & Policy 44(4): 751-82. . Djeufack Dongmo, Aristophane, and D & eacute;sir & eacute; Avom. 2024. "Urbanization, Civil Conflict, and the Severity of Food Insecurity in Africa." Politics & Policy 52(1): 140-68. . Garrett, Terence M., and Arthur J. Sementelli. 2023. "Revisiting the Policy Implications of COVID-19, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Creating (and Maintaining) States of Exception in the Trump and Biden Administrations." Politics & Policy 51(3): 458-75. . Este art & iacute;culo sostiene que las instalaciones europeas de identificaci & oacute;n biom & eacute;trica y las pr & aacute;cticas de titulizaci & oacute;n en las fronteras de & Aacute;frica occidental perjudican a los migrantes africanos y comprometen los objetivos de seguridad de Europa y & Aacute;frica. Utilizando la experiencia de N & iacute;ger, sostengo que la mala adaptaci & oacute;n de los migrantes a los procesos fronterizos biom & eacute;tricos est & aacute; estrechamente relacionada con sus conflictos de identidad, as & iacute; como con su atomizaci & oacute;n y debilitamiento de su integraci & oacute;n social. Las nuevas medidas de seguridad fronteriza est & aacute;n implicadas en las pr & aacute;cticas criminalizadoras y deshumanizantes del Estado que los migrantes y los agentes fronterizos experimentan todos los d & iacute;as. Acu & ntilde;a dos conceptos, a saber, reborderizaci & oacute;n biom & eacute;trica y desborderizaci & oacute;n agente para llamar la atenci & oacute;n sobre las formas en que los proyectos biom & eacute;tricos europeos est & aacute;n reconfigurando significativamente las fronteras africanas. 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