Bordering Situations explores the material politics of borders as both designed situations and situations of designing, tracing how borders operate to regulate, differentiate, and control the movement of people across racialized, gendered, and classed lines. Borders not only create uneven access to resources, wealth, and opportunities, but also materialize struggles that shape and are shaped by the lives of those who are forced to face, engage with, and transgress them.

Structured as a series of short, polemical essays, the book brings together years of ethnographic research with insights from anthropology, design, and political theory to examine how borders can be both sites of violent maintenance and potential horizons for disruption and reimagining. Through the lens of "situation," it proposes an indisciplinary engagement with material politics—one that foregrounds lived encounters and struggles as the grounds for envisioning a politics of mobility without borders. Bordering Situations invites readers to rethink not just the technologies and infrastructures of border regimes, but the everyday acts through which borders are unsettled and new worlds made possible.