ABSTRACT

Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways with variations in degrees of closure as well as openness. The existing conceptualization and organization of boundaries, borders and margins reflect and embody a logic of statis, closure and a cult of exclusivistic and exclusionary sovereignty as reflected in a closed and xenophobic politics over immigration in our recent times. This creates suffering and illness in self and society. Social healing calls for a new art and politics of boundary transmutation, boundary transformation and border crossing. This chapter explores a new art of border crossing.