The article addresses the changes of borders and border controls in the OECD-world and identifies three major transformations of the border-regimes. Contemporary border regimes differentiate more and more between particular groups of people, facilitating movement for some, while excluding others from mobility (selectivity). Border control is framed in international cooperation between states and non-state actors (internationalization). Control measures are dislocated from (the entry points to) the state territory taking place at spaces outside the actual territory of the state (exterritorialization). These developments do not suggest a disappearance of borders, but rather a fundamental transformation of the relation between territoriality and state control.