The sexual politics of border control: an introduction

In this introductory article to the special issue, we ask what role sexuality plays in the reproduction and contestation of border regimes and think sexuality towards its various entanglements with border control. As borders have been understood as a method for reproducing racialized distinctions, w...

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Published in:Ethnic and racial studies 2021-07, Vol.44 (9), p.1485-1506
Main Authors: Holzberg, Billy, Madörin, Anouk, Pfeifer, Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
(post)coloniality
Border security
Borders
Boundaries
Colonialism
Contagion
Containment
Deviance
Feminism
Migration
Mobility
Paraphilias
Politics
race
Racialization
Sexual deviance
Sexuality
transnational
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Summary:In this introductory article to the special issue, we ask what role sexuality plays in the reproduction and contestation of border regimes and think sexuality towards its various entanglements with border control. As borders have been understood as a method for reproducing racialized distinctions, we argue that sexuality is also a method of bordering and illustrate how sexuality works as a key strategy for the capture, containment and regulation of mobility and movement. Taking a transnational approach, we bring together queer scholarship on borders and migration with the rich archive of feminist, Black, Indigenous and critical border perspectives to suggest that these strategies need to be understood in close relation to the (I) intersecting dynamics of colonial histories of racialization, (II) national regimes of reproductive control and (III) the containment of contagion, disease and sexual deviance.
ISSN:0141-9870
1466-4356
DOI:10.1080/01419870.2021.1892791