ABSTRACT
Today, borders are not merely geographical lines of separations, divisions and differences. They are design spaces of production, circulation and consumption of images and relations. This chapter discusses the ubiquitousness of borders by discussing a specific national project of internal borderwork in Sweden and bringing forward the stories of those who are affected by it. Consequently, it argues that while borders frame certain moments and events as natural, catastrophic or normal, they deframe their own presence and politics persuasively. Borders as spaces, produce and sustain certain normalised ways of looking that allow them, paradoxically, to skip the sight. One way to resist these spaces of violence and exclusion is to envision counter-practices of looking at borders, to articulate other ways of looking at borders, at what borders could be, where they operate and how they move in time and space. As an example, the chapter ends with a presentation of a project that aimed at undesigning borders in the everyday life of two Swedish towns, where the police were heavily engaged in a series of racial profiling operations to find undocumented and deportable migrants.
