Frontiers in geographies of social reproduction

A growing body of scholarship interrogates how border and migration policing destabilize transnational patterns of household social reproduction by threatening intimate relationships, blocking access to social infrastructures, and extracting value from modest working-class households. To conceptualize these outcomes, this paper suggests a reading of border and migration policing as a “frontier of appropriation,” and elaborates a broad agenda of research that follows focusing on: the everyday relationship between crisis, devaluation and accumulation; how state policies use differences of legal and political status to manipulate this relationship; and how ordinary people navigate, survive, and/or resist the material outcomes.