For Sherene Razack, race becomes spatialized when intangible boundaries are established within the local level and concentrate racial minorities into specific areas. Often, their communities are deemed as illicit, disrespectable, and unsafe spaces. Their communities are also approached as “outside” the law, or outside the protection of the law. However, legislation plays a role only when it constructs race as space through notions of reserves, etcetera. Accordingly, Razack explores the ways in which racialized spaces determine the fate of individuals through her case study of Pamela George. The Aboriginal woman was murdered by two white men who hired her for prostitution. Since Pamela “was considered to belong to a space of prostitution and
