The full findings of the 'Border Narratives' project are to be presented in a new book forthcoming with Oxford University Press. The research monograph, authored by Nick Vaughan-Williams, is entitled Vernacular Border Security: Citizens' Narratives of Europe's 'Migration Crisis'. The volume draws on the original findings of 24 focus groups with diverse EU citizens across 11 EU cities to address the question: 'Why is it that, instead of satisfying calls for tougher borders, the intensification of walling and deterrent security appears to have heightened populist demands to "take back control" across Europe'?