supermodernity. As Augé puts it, “the space of non-place creates neither singular identity nor relations; only solitude, and similitude” (Augé, 1995: 103). Airport Travelers. Photo Katerina Rozakou, August 2021 3 Augé’s traveler finds comfort in the familiar infrastructures and procedures of such non-places in airports all over the world. But the airport also hosts the trajectories of “banal” or “cosmopolitans de facto” (Agier, 2016), people, in the case examined in this article, who have defied borders but are ultimately “voluntarily” deported. For the privileged cosmopolitan traveler, the airport is a familiar place and unhindered and accelerated mobility is part of their symbolic capital and a signifier of “a surplus of rights” (Balibar, 2002, 83). For most of the IOM returnees, the air travel of their voluntary deportation is the first time they will travel by airplane. Most of them arrived at the country after perilous land and sea journeys. Numerous times their trajectories have been slowed down and accelerated beyond their control in moments of hastiness (Rozakou, 2020) and in the process of enforced – alas “voluntary” – return. A space of differential and uneven mobilities Despite its fluidity and transience as a temporary place of mobility, the airport cannot be thought of as a meaningless or relation-less space or a “non-place”. I here draw upon Doreen Massey’s critique to the binary distinction between space as abstract and meaningless and place as meaningful, lived, and quotidian. Following her theorization, I consider space as a constellation of different trajectories that is perpetually under construction (Massey, 2005). I thus approach the airport as a space of differential and uneven mobilities; both socially differentiated and unequally experienced (Massey 1993). The article also draws upon Brenda Chalfin’s (2008) concept