Borders of Possibility

<p>It’s been a year since Donald Trump settled –again– in the White House, and a year since one of his most publicised measures echoed in government rooms worldwide: “the largest deportation of migrants in US history.” On the other side of the Atlantic, in Europe, pushbacks keep turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave, and unprecedented footage documents the EU’s continuous involvement in racially motivated anti-migrant operations in North Africa.</p> <p>This episode is an unpacking of migration and border management with a focus on the US-Mexico border and European externalisation practices. Written and narrated by journalist, jurist and urbanism specialist Nuria Ribas Costa, it features an in-depth interview with Gabriella Sánchez, a socio-cultural anthropologist and global expert on border control. In this conversation, she explains how borders are fictional constructs that require vast amounts of energy and resources to be manufactured into dangerous spaces; but also how borderlands, and border imaginaries, are not just spaces of violence, but of possibility, too.</p>