Guest Editorial: Transforming Borders and the Discretionary Politics of Migration Control

The eight articles in this issue promise us a global journey around transformed borders, multiscalar bordering, and discretionary practices within these migration controls. In doing so, the authors guide through Global North South with countries as varied US, Mexico, Mali, Poland, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom (UK), Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Turkey. We also gain insights specific research settings from additional Asian African of origin for migrants involved. By situating their analyses locus, provide grounded, localized narrative, which they insightfully theorize on interact at level. Through glocalized analyses, we not only learn about importance forms control discretion actors bordering practices, but into immediate long-term effects efforts divergent that transform our borders give meaning to practices.