ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a new process or movement-oriented “kinopolitical” methodology for studying borders. Borders are the new weapons being used to continue a war against the rest of the world. The movement of the border is not a metaphor; the border is literally and actually in motion in several ways. Borders are not well understood in terms of inclusion and exclusion, but rather by circulation. The concept of primitive accumulation is merely one historical instance of a more general border logic at work in the emergence and reproduction of previous societies. The figure of the “climate refugee” is never simply fleeing climate change but is doing so under postcolonial conditions of geopolitical violence and racism. Thus, contemporary global migration cannot be reduced to merely natural climatic causal explanations. Despite the celebration of globalization and the increasing necessity of global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history.
