This book explores the multiform and shifting locations of borders and boundaries in social life, related to difference and belonging. A significant contribution to scholarship on intersectionality, it highlights the importance of social locations, positionalities and processes with an emphasis on spatiality and temporality.

Floya Anthias is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Social Justice at Roehampton University, London, UK. Amongst other works, she is the author of Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Migration, the co-author of Racialised Boundaries and the co-editor of Woman, Nation, State; Into the Margins: Migration and Exclusion in Southern Europe; Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move; Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe; Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice; Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration and Work and the Challenges of Belonging.

Prolegomena: a personal borderscape 1. Introduction. Marking places: dilemmas of difference and inequality 2. Branding places: dilemmas of ordering 3. Assembling places: dilemmas of articulation 4. Hierarchising places: dilemmas of class and stratification 5. Transgressing places: dilemmas of gender, intimacy and violence 6. Territorialising places: dilemmas of b/ordering the nation 7. Epilogos. Transforming places: towards a politics of translocation