Sleights of Hand: Free Ports, Bordering, and the Racial Capitalist Roots of Economic Nationalist Strategies in the US and the UK

Sleight of hand economic nationalist strategies by recent administrations the US and UK emphasizing “freedom” those selectively imagined as belonging to nation while quietly but pivotally discouraging human mobility encouraging elite capital mobility, are discussed in this article. The UK’s distinct connected policies – Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) Boris Johnson’s Brexit -- not viewed exceptional, or unique specific each country, embedded within long-term, interconnected transnational racial capitalist projects. sleights promoting selective publics’ freedom only hypocritical complex see, especially with white-impaired lenses. Two interrelated technologies power on which these have relied, bordering free zones, examined ethnographically article, contributing research complex, varied, experience-inflected responses residents policies.