Racializing borders. The migrant ghetto as a anti-urban ‘black space’

This chapter promotes an analysis of bordering as infrastructuring. It arises from the observation that the bordering processes are not only enacted by multiple institutions and actors, but they also actively construct a three-dimensional and interconnected geographic bordered space. The essay thus builds on a topological understanding of space, which starts from the presupposition that bordered geographies are shaped, stretched, and (re)folded based on the scope and intensity of the relations between the elements that support it. In addition, infrastructures are also socio-material entanglements that actively write social difference in space. The adoption of an infrastructural lens, therefore, allows us to foreground what I call a political ecology of bordering processes, which foregrounds the way borders are naturalized through their stratifying and racializing dynamics.