The sexual politics of border control

An introduction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19001685
AutoresB Holzberg (0000-0003-1914-4760, King's College London), Anouk Madörin (University of Potsdam), Michelle Pfeifer (0000-0003-0317-2492, New York University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen44
Número9
Páginas1485-1506
Fecha de publicación2021-05-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2021.1892791
OpenAlexW3165140408
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas80

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

Criminology · Deviance (statistics) · Human sexuality · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Queer · Race (biology) · Racialization · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues