An in-press article by S. Hall and S. Farris in Ethnic and Racial Studies explores the idea of “racial borderscapes” as a way to rethink current debates on migration and border politics. The study focuses on how migrant life is shaped not only by physical borders, but also by wider social, spatial and economic systems.
Based on the available summary, the article argues that contemporary bordering regimes should be understood through political economy as well as race. By foregrounding labour, gender and space, the authors appear to place migration control within broader structures that organise work, movement and social belonging.
The paper’s title also points to the “ungrounding” of migrant life, suggesting a condition of instability or displacement produced through these border processes. Rather than treating borders as fixed lines, the racial borderscapes approach seems to examine how bordering operates across everyday life, institutions and places.
Published as an upcoming contribution to Ethnic and Racial Studies, the article adds to ongoing discussion about how migration is governed in the present. Its emphasis on space, gender and labour signals a framework that connects border politics to the lived realities of migrants and to the systems that shape their mobility and precarity.
