The Sexual Politics of Border Control

Billy Holzberg is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Justice at King’s College London. Billy’s current research examines the role that emotions play in the reproduction and contestation of the European border regime. His research interests include theories of affect and emotion, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism, racialisation, critical migration and border studies and the politics of representation. Anouk Madörin is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam. Anouk researches the surveillance and security architecture of the European border regime from a postcolonial perspective. Her research interests include visual and digital culture, media theory, postcolonialism, border studies, racial capitalism, the history of technology and gender and sexuality. Michelle Pfeifer is doctoral candidate at the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Michelle’s research examines the role of media technologies in the formation, practices, affects and operations of European border regimes. Michelle’s research interests include (digital) media studies, sound studies, gender and sexuality studies and critical border studies.

1. The sexual politics of border control: an introduction 2. Radical sovereignty, rhetorical borders, and the everyday decolonial praxis of Indigenous peoplehood and Two-Spirit reclamation 3. Blackness, biopolitics, borders: African immigration, racialization, and the limits of American exceptionalism 4. Borderlands of reproduction: bodies, borders, and assisted reproductive technologies in Israel/Palestine 5. "We’re dating after marriage": transformative effects of performing intimacy in Vietnamese "marriage fraud" arrangements 6. Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey 7. Migration, sex work and trafficking: the racialized bordering politics of sexual humanitarianism 8. Predatory porn, sex work and solidarity at borders 9. Sexuality and borders in right wing times: a conversation 10. Afterword – Entangled politics: borderscapes and sexuality