Mafalda Carapeto is a PhD candidate in Anthropology in the University of Lisbon, specializing in Anthropology of Ethnicity and Politics. Her doctoral proposal aims to study how, in contemporary times, borders and mobility across them are managed, namely which mechanisms and devices are activated at each moment to allow, or not, access to the national territory. She did 11 months of fieldwork, on the Portuguese border, at Humberto Delgado's airport, where she accompanied the inspetores of the Portuguese Immigration and Border Service (SEF). Continuing the investigation carried out within the framework of the Master's in Anthropology (2017) at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP). During her master's degree, she explored the image of refugees, the way they are represented, in a context of securitization, by communication agencies and subsequently publicized by the national press. She currently collaborates as a researcher in the Research Network on Borders and Migrations and in PopMob - Line of Research in Population and Mobility of CAPP (R&D Research Unit, Center for Administration and Public Policies of ISCSP) and in the Working Group. Recently, she is also a member of the Working Group "Documents as proof, documents as past" of the CA21120 History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration (HIDDEN) of the European Cooperation in Science & Technology. Her main interests are those related to political anthropology, namely migration, the State, borders and security. Mafalda Carapeto's research is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/143360/2019).