The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a rowing back on neoliberalism. In this article, I draw on and expand the scholarship on coloniality to address the limitations of this diagnosis. Specifically, I explore the role of political mobilization in the making of the post-Brexit border regime. My research draws on the analysis of legal and policy initiatives between 2020 and 2023 and twenty-three research interviews with individuals who express their opposition to immigration via engagement in think tanks, grassroots organizations and vigilante groups. The interview data indicates multiple connections between these milieus and shows that each engages in action repertoires beyond the nation-state. And while this prompts border closures, the post-Brexit border regime also encodes openings and loopholes for the circulation of financial elites and precariously employed workers. Thus, I argue that state and non-state actors co-produce a neoliberal border regime of stratified rights, partial inclusions, and gradual exclusions. These variegated entitlements draw on and reinvigorate the racial order of coloniality. The post-Brexit immigration regime enables the free mobility of those racialized as “West European,” facilitates disposable labor mobility of those racialized as “Eastern European,” and restricts the movement of those racialized as “non-European.” This racial imaginary does not only operate via binary distinctions of (non)-Britishness but puts people in complex hierarchical relations to “Europeanness.”

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殖民地、种族和欧洲性：英国脱欧后的英国边界


关于移民政治的学术研究经常将政府对极右翼动员的反应描述为回归边境关闭和对新自由主义的倒退。在本文中，我借鉴并扩展了关于殖民主义的学术研究，以解决这种诊断的局限性。具体来说，我探讨了政治动员在英国脱欧后边境制度的形成中的作用。我的研究借鉴了对 2020 年至 2023 年间法律和政策举措的分析，以及对通过参与智库、草根组织和自卫团体表达反对移民的个人的 23 次研究采访。采访数据表明这些环境之间存在多重联系，并表明每个环境都参与了民族国家之外的行动曲目。虽然这促使边境关闭，但英国脱欧后的边境制度也为金融精英和不稳定就业工人的流通提供了漏洞和漏洞。因此，我认为国家和非国家行为体共同产生了一种新自由主义的边界制度，即分层权利、部分包容和逐渐排斥。这些五花八门的权利利用并重振了殖民主义的种族秩序。英国脱欧后的移民制度使那些被种族化为“西欧人”的人能够自由流动，促进了那些被种族化为“东欧人”的人的一次性劳动力流动，并限制了那些被种族化为“非欧洲人”的人的流动。这种种族想象不仅通过（非）英国性的二元区分来运作，而且将人们置于与“欧洲性”的复杂等级关系中。