In an apparent departure from responses to the so-called 2015 “migration” crisis, Ukrainians displaced by the war have been welcomed relatively unbureaucratically by European states. Yet, despite this, they are positioned as a problem to be solved, a disruption to the normal order and state system. This article asks what this problematization of “migrants” reveals about the dominant system of thought that assigns people to place and how it might it be possible to think beyond its limits. It starts by demonstrating that the “security-space” imaginary both excludes and relies upon highly problematic, concealed assumptions about time and race. It shows how questions of time and race continually haunt and disrupt the seemingly coherent and indomitable “security-space” way of thinking. Following a strategy of deconstruction, the article arrives at the counter-intuitive conclusion that this dominant problematization of migration is temporal and structured by a relation to the future. Building on existing critical literature produced by scholars of Geopolitics, International Relations, and International Political Sociology, it offers an alternative imaginary, “time-race,” which opens up new ground for reimagining borders and migration to overcome reproducing the never-ending cycle of “migration crises,” to which there is apparently no alternative.

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从安全空间到时间竞赛：重新构想全球政治中的边界和移民


与2015年所谓的“移民”危机的反应明显不同的是，因战争而流离失所的乌克兰人受到了欧洲国家相对不官僚的欢迎。然而，尽管如此，它们仍被视为一个需要解决的问题，对正常秩序和国家体系的破坏。本文询问“移民”的问题化揭示了将人们分配到地方的主导思想体系的哪些内容，以及如何超越其限制进行思考。它首先证明“安全空间”想象既排除又依赖于关于时间和种族的高度成问题的、隐蔽的假设。它展示了时间和种族问题如何不断困扰和破坏看似连贯且顽强的“安全空间”思维方式。遵循解构策略，本文得出了反直觉的结论，即移民的这种主要问题化是暂时的，并且是由与未来的关系构成的。它以地缘政治学、国际关系学和国际政治社会学学者现有的批判文献为基础，提供了另一种想象的“时间竞赛”，为重新想象边界和移民开辟了新的天地，以克服重复无休止的循环“移民危机”，显然没有其他选择。