doi:10.1080/14650045.2024.2409857engCobarrubias, SebastianNovak, PaoloEmbedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform PlacesART-2025-140324Over the past twenty years, research into border externalisation has developed a rich spatial vocabulary to understand these bordering practices as well as critical analyses that challenge the often North-centric views towards externalisation. In this Special Issue, we emphasise that a place-based gaze can lend new mileage to border externalisation research. We emphasise that the place has been under-theorised and under examined in its relation to border externalisation. Existing work often has an implicit framing that understands externalisation as part of a migrant vs. border dialectic, or as part of geopolitical relations between states. By focusing on place, we argue that border externalisation: generates new contexts by connecting previously disparate sites into a border continuum; is place dependent, as its different forms are contingent on situated dynamics; and is place transformative, the border changes the social dynamics of the places where it is implemented.2025http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/14545310.1080/14650045.2024.2409857http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145453oai:zaguan.unizar.es:145453Geopolitics 30, 1 (2025), 1-18All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess