ABSTRACT
European political space is caught up in a race-to-the-bottom in terms of refugee policies. Those states accepting the least number of migrants fleeing from war and humanitarian disasters seem to score the highest among European politicians and voters. This chapter provides a critical understanding of this process and discusses how such bordered spaces can become unbordered to allow for other imaginings. Drawing on psychoanalytical and postcolonial approaches, the chapter shows how bordering is both a structural and an emotional process as well as a process that allows for imaginative spaces.
