Afterword: Greeting the border externalization wave in four movements

Dialoguing with the latest wave of scholarship on border externalization through the author’s nearly quarter century engagement with postcolonial European border studies, this afterword reads the scintillating contributions to this special issue across the grain of four thematic “movements”: inhabiting the constitutive outside in/beyond Europe; avoiding the rush to the border-suffix; engaging the future; and the madness of going “beyond” while choosing to remain “out of place”. The afterword closes with a call for postcolonial border scholars to continue the task of working like sand in the smooth machinery of European science, generating untimely knowledge on Europe’s externalizing borderlands.