Description
Contemporary borders are increasingly fluid and contingent – operating through everyday border checks such as the Hostile Environment in the UK (Goodfellow, 2020; Yeo, 2020; Yuval-Davis et al., 2019), externalisation and off-shoring border practices (El-Enany, 2021; Shachar, 2020), and the increasing use of AI and algorithmic bordering across the world (Amoore, 2006; Amoore and Hall, 2009; Jablonowski, 2023). Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, including poststructural, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, the panel’s contributions sit at the intersections of Critical Border and Migration Studies and Critical Security Studies. We critically examine the insecurities faced by migrants and racialised minorities, the shifting practices of border governance, and the political and ethical dilemmas inherent in migration and border regimes. Collectively, the panel aims to contribute to ongoing debates on novel ways of understanding the increasingly indeterminate and contingent nature of state border and immigration regimes as ubiquitous instruments of power that target racialised people regardless of their legal or migration status. Ultimately, the panel seeks to generate critical insights into alternative imaginaries of, and approaches to, border(ing) and migration in the twenty-first century.
