The seminar explores contemporary transformations of border practices by focusing on the multiple and contested ways in which bordering has increasingly been converted into a terrain for racialised forms of value extraction and profit-making. Drawing on recent critical scholarship produced in the fields of geography, critical border and migration studies, anthropology and political theory, the seminar will examine how extractive, predatory and neo-liberal logics came to underpin contemporary practices of migration governance, such as detention, deportation, interception, externalisation, reception, and humanitarian support. Students will be introduced to cutting-edge debates on the following topics and concepts: humanitarian-industrial complex; extractive humanitarianism; destitution economies; accumulation by immobilisation; predatory bio-economies; logistification of migration governance; humanitarian exploitation; and illegality industry. Overall, the objective of the seminar is to equip students with an analytical toolbox that allows them to critically investigate the increasingly extractive character of border regimes