There has been a profusion of institutionalized practices of confiscation and destruction of migrants’ belongings during European bordering operations conducted by the police and border authorities. Clothes, shoes, money, food, mobile phones, and even water have been among the items seized by authorities, a practice that exposes migrants to multiple risks. That said, despite the pervasiveness of current (dis)possessive methods, scholars have not yet sufficiently theorized the historical and current links between property, race, and borders. This article argues that such (dis)possessive practices at Europe's borders are not simply another method of governance that emerges at Europe's borderzones. Rather, (dis)possession is seen here as central to the very (post)colonial functioning of the border itself. The argument is, on the one hand, that Europe's borders have been embedded within a (post)colonial and racial capitalist global order predicated upon multifaceted forms of (dis)possession. And, on the other hand, it is claimed that borders themselves have been sites of continual forms of colonial and racial (dis)possession. In so doing, the article shows how (dis)possession has historically allowed Europe to demarcate, reinforce, and police the status of racialized bodies as less than human and property-like, that is, as bodies available for colonial and capitalist consumption.

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(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed 身体：后殖民欧洲边界的种族和财产

在警察和边防当局进行的欧洲边境行动中，没收和销毁移民财物的制度化做法很多。衣服、鞋子、钱、食物、手机，甚至水都是当局没收的物品，这种做法使移民面临多重风险。也就是说，尽管当前（剥夺）占有的方法普遍存在，但学者们尚未充分理论化财产、种族和边界之间的历史和当前联系。本文认为，欧洲边境的这种（剥夺）占有性做法不仅仅是出现在欧洲边境地区的另一种治理方法。相反，（剥夺）财产在这里被视为边界本身的（后）殖民地功能的核心。一方面，论据是，欧洲的边界已经嵌入（后）殖民和种族资本主义全球秩序中，该秩序建立在多方面的（剥夺）占有形式之上。而且，另一方面，据称边界本身一直是殖民和种族（剥夺）持续形式的场所。通过这样做，文章展示了（剥夺）所有权如何在历史上允许欧洲界定、加强和监管种族化身体的地位，使其低于人类和财产地位，即作为可用于殖民和资本主义消费的身体。