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Rethinking Liminality in Border Regimes

In this chapter, I theoretically explore how the concepts of liminality and inbetweenness contribute to understanding the social-urban transformation of the Dzjangal, Tiburtina, and Los Arenales from spaces labeled as non-places and places of exception into places of conviviality. I reflect on the inbetweenness of migratory experiences as the uncertainties shaped by contemporary border regimes, as well as the driving force of the creation of alternative placemaking in today’s urban spaces.