ABSTRACT
Even after immigrants cross sociopolitical borders delineated in world maps, they constantly experience border crossings. Examining situated (re)presentations of border crossings, this chapter employs critical race methodology to unveil (de)limiting and racialized conceptualizations of (not) belonging. Seeking to move toward an expansive politics of belonging for migrants and immigrants, it calls for problematizing and upending the need to align to whiteness and the white borders delineating inclusion/exclusion in the United States. Though focused on the context of the United States, this chapter offers important global implications, shedding light on contexts affected by entanglements of settler colonialism, slavery and imperialism.
