Abstract

The growing relevance of bordering processes in the contemporary world, places the issue on academic agendas, and within them, the study of border political regimes (BPRs). This article consists of a discussion of the specificities of BPRs in Latin America, their constitutions from history and nationalist politics, and the way in which existing integrationist pacts have accounted for this situation. One conclusion is that Latin America's cross-border territories are shaped by numerous social practices based on everyday life and customary traditions. In addition, their governments rely decisively on what is called surreptitious politics. While recognizing the limits of the continental experience, the article argues that this can lead to the incubation of new post-nationalist organizing logics. The article is the result of synthesizing and contrasting various previous studies and is thus an interdisciplinary and inductive exercise.