Borders and Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Biopolitical Societies: The Migrant’s Body as Carrier of the Border

Within the new digital borders of Europe and the introduction of biometrics in migration control and management, the human body has received a greater significance and has become the par excellence border. This chapter focuses on the migrant’s body as carrier of limitations, dichotomies and borders, and, consequently, on the examination of the functions of racism within the frame of twenty-first-century biopolitical societies.