Racial Borders: The policing of identities in everyday spaces

Abstract

Knowing borders as ‘racial’ refers to the manner in which language of difference, conceived in the creation of the ideology of race, is now applied through tightening and restricting migrants and migration across national boundaries. This piece will introduce the concept of racial borders through the definitions posed by Mezzandra & Neilson, and E. Tendayi Achiume, and then contextualise the vitality of deconstructing racial borders through an examination of how racial bordering works in everyday spaces of community within the UK.