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Author-Name: Katarzyna Stokłosa
Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Stokłosa
Title: Neighborhood Relations on the Polish Borders: The Example of the Polish-German, Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian Border Regions
Abstract:
Using the example of the Polish border, this article examines
the phenomenon of borders and border regions in connection with
neighborhood relations. How did relations with their neighbors develop in
the course of Polish history? How far have the respective neighbors
progressed in overcoming prejudice and stereotypes? These questions will
be discussed within the context of Poland's Western border with Germany
and her Eastern borders with Russia and Ukraine. Can the German-Polish
border, with its long history of cross-border cooperation, serve as the
model around which to shape co-existence on Poland's Eastern border?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 245-255
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750948
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Author-Name: Mark Wiering
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiering
Author-Name: Joris Verwijmeren
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Verwijmeren
Title: Limits and Borders: Stages of Transboundary Water Management
Abstract:
The abundant literature on transboundary water management
often treats cross-border initiatives as being interchangeable although
they take place in very different regions and in different stages of the
cooperation process. On the basis of a comparison of five cases in
different corners of Europe, a stages-approach to cross-border river
management is proposed. This model considers enabling or constraining
conditions for continuous cross-border cooperation to be both context- and
stage-specific. The model leads us to assert the claim that transboundary
governance becomes more complex going from problem diagnosis to actual
implementation of joint measures. Transboundary governance requires
increasing integration of the institutional arrangements of the
cross-border regions involved, until at some point a level of resistance
emerges that erodes willingness to collaborate further. Before that
happens, however, one can learn from specific conditions that become
evident in the context and stages.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 257-272
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750949
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Author-Name: Charles R. Boehmer
Author-X-Name-First: Charles R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Boehmer
Author-Name: Sergio Peña
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Peña
Title: The Determinants of Open and Closed Borders
Abstract:
Why do some states restrict access to citizens from
neighboring states? We explain entry restrictions into states by using a
theoretical framework that combines the effects of asymmetrical
development, democracy, and interstate conflict with a geographic variable
that considers interactions based on neighboring urban settlements. We
employ passport and visa requirements as a dependent variable. We apply an
ordered probit analysis to test our hypotheses about why states open or
close their borders to citizens from neighboring states. We also
incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as an analytical tool.
The results show that the greater the differential in development between
two neighboring states, the less likely the richer state will be open to
citizens from its poorer neighbor. The presence of urban settlements,
enduring peace, and democracy increase the likelihood of border openness
between neighboring states, although international trade has no effect on
the degree of openness.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 273-285
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750950
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Author-Name: Christina Daly
Author-X-Name-First: Christina
Author-X-Name-Last: Daly
Title: Immigration and Education: Setbacks and Opportunities For Earnings along the Texas-Mexico Border
Abstract:
This paper examines returns to education and income
determinants of residents along the Texas-Mexico border, using the
2006-2008 3-Year American Community Survey data. The returns to education
are higher along the border than in the rest of Texas, especially for
college educated Hispanic women, suggesting high demand for bilingual
professionals. In regressions focusing on the border, controls for English
ability and other income factors makes the Hispanic variable
insignificant. While in regressions focusing on the rest of Texas, being
Hispanic has little impact on earnings. The immigrant variable decreases
earnings by 7% along the border, but is positive elsewhere in Texas,
suggesting immigrants are relatively well paid for their skill level, but
comparatively low skills cause low average earnings. Finally, the border
region potentially loses over $900 per adult a year due to lower earnings
power from relatively low education levels compared to the rest of the
state. Hispanics have the lowest education attainment and compared to the
earnings of non-Hispanics with higher education attainment, may miss out
on over $2,200 a year.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 287-298
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750951
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Author-Name: Birgit Leick
Author-X-Name-First: Birgit
Author-X-Name-Last: Leick
Title: Business Networks in the Cross-border Regions of the Enlarged EU: What do we know in the Post-enlargement Era?
Abstract:
In the context of the Eastern European enlargement, locally
based networks of enterprises were expected to act as an important driver
of economic integration of the cross-border regions. In a globalized
world, this type of network is supposed to play a vital role in
strengthening the competitiveness of the peripheral regions along the
former political-economic frontier between Western and Eastern Europe. In
practice, however, only weak network-building across borders was observed
in many of the border areas, instead, that involves local enterprises. The
contrasting picture of the theoretical propositions and the empirical
evidence is the starting point for the present paper. Its aim is to
present the key insights into the issue of business networks in the
cross-border regions in a post-enlargement era. It proceeds along the
following lines: after having confronted the theoretical propositions on
the topic with empirical evidence, a case study of a historically
integrated cross-border network underpins this literature overview with
primary data and highlights the perspectives and limitations of the
business networking potential for a case region. The article finishes by
sketching a research agenda that aims at reconciling the different views
on the development of cross-border business networks and calls for new
empirical research.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 299-314
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750952
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Author-Name: Karri Kiiskinen
Author-X-Name-First: Karri
Author-X-Name-Last: Kiiskinen
Title: Cultural Cooperation or Incorporation: Recollecting and Presenting Borderland Materiality at the External Border of the European Union
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the role of culture in the narratives
of bordering at the external border of the European Union. During the
Soviet period, the present Polish-Ukrainian border was closed and
historically this ceded borderland has been imagined as a "Borderland "
with specific meaning for Poles. In the last decades it has become a
contact zone between nations, discourses and social imaginaries. Here
culture has become a resource for transcending national and EU borders,
but the recent border changes, as well as those in the past, connect also
with borderland materiality. The ways that material heritage and the
border become part of bordering narratives, as a boundary object and
border figure, suggest not only different connections established between
the past and the present, but also diverse conceptualizations of border
crossing culture and cross-border relations. In case of cross-border
cooperation, material heritage is a resource that supports the values of
cooperation, but makes the border invisible. At the same time, the border
becomes part of presenting national cultures when immigrants are
integrated into local communities. I argue, based on multi-sited
ethnographic fieldwork, that local actors in their bordering narratives,
by their personal recollections of borderland materiality, suggest
alternatives to such cross-border networking and presentations of cultural
diversity. These recollections suggest negotiations of the border and the
current processes of bordering, such as "cross-border" cooperation. Here
material heritage can be a means for incorporating present diversity at
home and for negotiating cultures at the border. The doing of border
crossings is a means for engaging communities and may result in cultural
incorporation. Such borderland multiculturalism relativizes the border on
the individual and community level as well as implies Europeanization as a
negotiation between the self and the European.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 315-329
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750953
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Author-Name: Kitty Lam
Author-X-Name-First: Kitty
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam
Title: Homes across the Border: Russian Summer Houses in the Karelian Isthmus and the Finnish State, 1917-1927
Abstract:
At the end of the 19-super-th century, numerous St.
Petersburg residents established their summer homes in the Karelian
Isthmus, a picturesque region in the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous
province of the Russian Empire. The ease of travel between the Russian
imperial capital and the Finnish seaside towns contributed to this
practice. After 1917, a new border regime delineated the nascent Finnish
state from the equally new Russian/Soviet state. This change displaced the
majority of Russian proprietors, as well as those imperial subjects who
rented vacation properties from local Finns. This article addresses how
state-building practices distinguishing between insiders' and outsiders'
access to rights and privileges reflected the significance of territorial
borders as markers of a state's territorial sovereignty. It does so by
investigating how Finnish-Russian social ties affected the Finnish
government's management of real estate owned or used by subjects of the
former Russian Empire. Using archival material from the Administrative
Organ for Property of Foreign Owners in Viipuri Province (Finland), this
article examines how property settlements decisions had unintended
consequences when officials attempted to balance state and individual
interests. These decisions in turn challenged the primacy of the
territorial border as an institution that separates insiders from
outsiders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 331-343
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751709
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Author-Name: Rolf Bergs
Author-X-Name-First: Rolf
Author-X-Name-Last: Bergs
Title: Cross-border Cooperation, Regional Disparities and Integration of Markets in the EU
Abstract:
This paper is a revised empirical chapter of the ex-post
evaluation of INTERREG III which was carried out on behalf of the European
Commission during 2008 to 2010. One of the tasks was to assess the impact
of INTERREG III on harmonious regional development and integration
throughout Europe. This paper is focused on INTERREG-Strand A
(cross-border cooperation). The empirical analysis, based on a factor with
subsequent regression analysis, suggests that the history of cooperation
matters predominantly for European Union cross-border economic
integration, while the strength of cooperation in terms of strategic
partnership or the common understanding of needs for cross-border regional
development seems not to matter. Apart from history, the major
determinants for cross-border economic integration and cross-border
regional disparities are forces outside INTERREG, namely intra-industry
trade of the national economies, Economic and Monetary Union and Schengen.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 345-363
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751710
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Author-Name: Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhurzhenko
Title: Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century: Understanding Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 365-366
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750954
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Author-Name: Anaïs Marin
Author-X-Name-First: Anaïs
Author-X-Name-Last: Marin
Title: Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 367-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750955
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Author-Name: Peter Chilson
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Chilson
Title: Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 369-370
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.750956
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Author-Name: Lafazani Olga
Author-X-Name-First: Lafazani
Author-X-Name-Last: Olga
Title: A Border within a Border: The Migrants' Squatter Settlement in Patras as a Heterotopia
Abstract:
The routes of migrants without papers towards Western
European countries often converge at the city of Patras, a city in the
western borders of Greece with a port connecting to Italy. Around 2001,
the migrants who lived there temporarily-until they managed to cross the
border-built a squatter settlement. Following a period of social and
political tensions, the settlement was finally demolished in 2009.
In this paper I approach the settlement in Patras as a heterotopia, a
place of the "other," the different, as conceptualized by Michel Foucault
and others. Heterotopias are like counter-sites in which all the other
real sites that can be found within the culture are simultaneously
represented, contested and inverted. Reading the migrants' settlement as a
heterotopic space helps unpack invisible aspects not only of the
settlement but also of the city. Exploring the settlement and the city as
interrelated spaces, I discuss the social, economic and spatial relations
that operate in each of those spaces and also connect them: how borders
and migrant illegality operate in the level of everyday life; how space,
time, practices and strategies are renegotiated within several geographic
scales, from the body to the global. By approaching the migrants'
settlement in Patras as a heterotopia, I propose a reading of borders,
migration and urban space as processes where several levels of conflict,
power and resistance operate.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-13
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751731
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Author-Name: Gergő Medve-Bálint
Author-X-Name-First: Gergő
Author-X-Name-Last: Medve-Bálint
Author-Name: Sara Svensson
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Svensson
Title: Diversity and Development: Policy Entrepreneurship of Euroregional Initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe
Abstract:
The article builds on the authors' research into the
formation of Euroregions in Central and Eastern Europe, addressing
questions that may also be relevant on a broader European scale. Based on
our empirical findings, in previous research we demonstrated why some
local governments join Euroregions while others abstain. This article
takes a further step and aims to discuss what happens once local
governments become involved in them. How do motivations and expectations
of local governments, as well as the power asymmetries between them,
determine the capacity of these small-scale local cross-border
collaborative initiatives to act as policy entrepreneurs? We take the
three different Euroregional initiatives present in the Komárom-Esztergom
region at the Hungarian-Slovakian border as illustrative examples. The
empirical data were collected through personal interviews with the
representatives of the Euroregions and with the highest political
representatives of all local governments that are members on the Hungarian
side. We find that differences in membership structure and in the
motivational background influence their capacity to act as policy
entrepreneurs operationalized as organizational development,
diversification of resource base and appropriation of cross-border
cooperation activities. We thus rely on a modified version of Markus
Perkmann's theoretical framework built around the concept of policy
entrepreneurship, but apply it to cases where we are able to control for
variations in underlying macro-level conditions, such as
politico-administrative or ethno-linguistic settings. The paper,
therefore, highlights the differences in the internal dynamics of these
initiatives and also challenges the perception of Euroregions as
homogeneous institutions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 15-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.770630
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Author-Name: John R. Chávez
Author-X-Name-First: John R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chávez
Title: When Borders Cross Peoples: The Internal Colonial Challenge to Borderlands Theory
Abstract:
Struggles, such as those of the Irish in Northern Ireland,
Tibetans in China, and Mexicans in the United States, have had much to do
with historic claims to homeland, especially around issues involving
shifting borders and migration. In the US the perception of Mexicans as
aliens in the Southwest derived from the Anglo-American imposition of a
borderline across Mexico in 1848. In response to the dominant US view,
ethnic Mexicans countered with their own image of the Southwest as
Mexico's lost northern borderlands and of the border as immoral and
irrelevant. By the 1960s, supporting that image, ethnic Mexicans helped
develop "internal colonialism"-a theory dismissed in the 1980s, but
persistent. The purpose of this paper is to outline the connections
between internal colonial and borderlands theories and to argue for the
necessity of the former to understand the historic situations of
indigenous and hybrid populations within the borders of modern
nation-states.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 33-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.799733
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Author-Name: Leslie R. Alm
Author-X-Name-First: Leslie R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Alm
Author-Name: Ross E. Burkhart
Author-X-Name-First: Ross E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Burkhart
Title: Bridges and Barriers: The Lake Superior Borderlands
Abstract:
This paper investigates the Canada-US borderlands
relationship along the two geographic corridors as bounded by Lake
Superior: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario-Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Thunder
Bay, Ontario-Duluth, Minnesota. Borderland communities-driven by their
shared cultural characteristics (ethnicity, language, religion)-are said
to challenge the border as a dividing device and undermine the very
essence of international borders. Moreover, borderlands regions are
dynamic and overlapping, providing the first point of contact and
interaction between nations. Our results depict inherent differences
between these particular border regions, with each illustrating
characteristics that both connect and divide. Despite the passage of time
and both countries' determined efforts to make the passage safe and less
demanding, the peoples in these border regions perceive a continuing
frustration with crossing the border and connecting to the people on the
other side of the border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 47-60
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751728
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Author-Name: Julie Collins-Dogrul
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins-Dogrul
Title: Disease Knows No Borders: The Emergence and Institutionalization of Public Health Transnationalism on the US-Mexico Border
Abstract:
This historical sociological case study examines the
emergence and institutionalization of public health transnationalism on
the US-Mexico border in the 1940s, shedding light on actors, mechanisms,
and processes that preceded the enactment of the World Health
Organization. Though the United States instigated the border's first
cross-border public health project and provided financing and professional
leadership, cooperation took root through transboundary brokerage and
associational activities. The Pan American Sanitary Bureau brokered
networks and the US-Mexico Border Public Health Association constructed a
sense of community, creating a durable, though unequal, arena for public
health cooperation still active today.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 61-73
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Kathryn Kopinak
Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn
Author-X-Name-Last: Kopinak
Author-Name: Rosa Maria Soriano Miras
Author-X-Name-First: Rosa Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Soriano Miras
Title: Types of Migration Enabled by Maquiladoras in Baja California, Mexico: The Importance of Commuting
Abstract:
This article analyzes a relatively new stream of labor
migrants from Mexico to the US, those who have worked in export-processing
industries, or maquiladoras, in Mexico before or at the same time as
crossing the border to work. The focus is on what kind of migrants they
are, addressing how those with maquila work experience compare with the
traditional migratory stream of agricultural workers. The methodology is
Grounded Theory and use is also made of typology theory, showing how the
emergence of particular ideal types of migrants are dependent on Mexican
job, labor market, place of origin, documents and social and human
capital. We find that former and current maquila employees most often
begin as a recurrent type of migrant, especially commuters, which is one
of its subtypes. Many tend to transform over time into immigrants. Maquila
employees are more likely to be commuters than agricultural workers due to
differing origins. More skilled maquila employees become immigrants and
recurrent migrants through a diaspora process in which the multinational
corporation plays a key role, providing an organizational structure
through which they move. The return type of migration is not strongly
represented due to borderlander identities and less opportunity in Mexico.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 75-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751733
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Author-Name: Jorge Eduardo Mendoza Cota
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendoza Cota
Title: US-Mexican Economic Integration and its Effects on Unemployment in Mexico's Northern Border States
Abstract:
The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of the
economic activity of the US-Mexico trans-border region on the unemployment
rate of the northern border states of Mexico. A panel data econometric
model is established to relate changes in the unemployment rate to changes
in the GDP of the Mexican and American border states, as well as changes
in Mexican wages and border trade. Panel data models were estimated using
fixed and random estimations; the results showed that wages had a positive
correlation with respect to the unemployment rate. The GDP of the Mexican
border states and the GDP of the US border states exhibited a negative
relationship with respect to the unemployment rate. These results
corroborate a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the
GDP of the Mexican border states but, most importantly, with the GDP of
the US border states, providing evidence that the economic integration at
the border region has created a situation where the labor market of the
northern border states of Mexico depends on the economic activity of the
US border states.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 93-108
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751732
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Author-Name: Victoria M. Phaneuf
Author-X-Name-First: Victoria M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Phaneuf
Title: The Vermont-Québec Border Region: Negotiations of Identity and Logic in the Northeast Kingdom
Abstract:
This article investigates the diverse relations of local
residents with the Vermont-Québec border. The research is situated in
Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, a predominantly rural area with myriad ties
to Québec. Certain local residents are set apart from other residents and
individuals not residing in the border region by the centrality of the
border to their personal identities and modes of action. They also
understand the border and border-related activities using a different set
of logics. This can lead to misunderstandings and tensions, particularly
surrounding policy changes concerning border regulations. This article
concludes that, while not recognized as an identity group, these
individuals do indeed form a separate category with particular, shared
characteristics that will be unequally impacted by future social and
policy changes on the border. Though much has been written on borders in
general, and US borders in particular, this area has been understudied and
offers a specific set of characteristics of interest to border theory as a
whole.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 109-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Kimberly Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Kimberly
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: Life in the US-Mexican Border Region: Residents' Perceptions of the Place
Abstract:
There are both multiple realities and truths along the
US-Mexican border region. Within this dichotomy, there are overriding
themes by which a sense of place indeed matters when examining an
individual resident's quality of life. This study reviews quality of life
data for four city pairs along the US-Mexican border region, providing an
insight into how residents perceive their sense of place as that mirrored
in the community on the opposite side of the border. The conclusions that
are drawn from this comparison show a greater need for better
understanding and joint policy making along the US-Mexican border. With
this coordination, a stronger, more mutually beneficial relationship can
be achieved among and between the different levels of both governments and
residents.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 127-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.796210
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Author-Name: Pertti Joenniemi
Author-X-Name-First: Pertti
Author-X-Name-Last: Joenniemi
Title: Images of the North. Histories-Identities-Ideas
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 147-148
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.796211
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Author-Name: Edward Boyle
Author-X-Name-First: Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: Boyle
Title: Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan's Other
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 149-150
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.796219
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Author-Name: Kimmo Katajala
Author-X-Name-First: Kimmo
Author-X-Name-Last: Katajala
Title: Bordering the Baltic. Scandinavian Boundary Drawing Processes, 1900-2000
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 151-152
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.796212
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Author-Name: Sean M. McDonald
Author-X-Name-First: Sean M.
Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald
Author-Name: Bruce Vaughn
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce
Author-X-Name-Last: Vaughn
Title: Autonomy in the Southern Borderland of Nepal: A Formula for Security or Cause of Conflict?
Abstract:
Autonomous movements in southern Nepal have
added a new layer of conflict to a volatile political situation. The
Maoist armed uprising and pro-democracy movement that abolished the
monarchy and initiated a republic unleashed sub-national aspirations for
autonomy in the southern borderland region of Nepal. In this article,
Madhesi autonomous sentiment in Nepal's southern borderland region is
explored within the context of ethno-federalist concepts of the role of
core ethnic identities and state stability as articulated by Hale and
others. This inquiry is undertaken against the backdrop of Nepal's
Constituent Assembly's (CA) failed efforts to draft a new constitution.
Several key disagreements between the main political parties continue to
be contentious and could undermine efforts to elect a new CA and restart
efforts to draft a new constitution. Among the areas of contention are
proposals to redraw internal political boundaries along ethnic lines and
proposals to integrate proportional representation into Nepal's democratic
system. Both of these proposals have significant implications for the
power balance between the Madhesi of the Terai and the centre in
Kathmandu. The article also explores post conflict concessions by the new
democratic government and the role that they have played in both diffusing
and exacerbating conflict in the Terai. The Terai borderland's role in
Nepal's geopolitical position relative to India and China is also
considered.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 153-168
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.859808
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Author-Name: Chris Rumford
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Rumford
Title: Towards a Vernacularized Border Studies: The Case of Citizen Borderwork
Abstract:
The paper proposes a non-state centric
approach to the study of borders, building upon Balibar's "borders are
everywhere" thesis. It is argued that a vernacularized border studies
highlights a number of dimensions not normally accorded priority in the
study of borders. Borders can be political resources in that they can be
drawn upon by a range of actors who seek to either selectively regulate
mobility or use the border as a staging post which connects to the wider
world. One key dimension of a vernacularized borders studies is explored
in detail: borderwork, societal bordering activity undertaken by citizens.
This bordering activity is not linked to national securitization in any
obvious way. Borderwork is explored at two UK sites, Melton Mowbray and
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in order to demonstrate the ways in which borders are
not always the project of the state, that they can exist for some (but not
all), and can be "engines of connectivity," linking people to the world
beyond the "local" border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 169-180
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854653
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Author-Name: Christophe Sohn
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Sohn
Author-Name: Francisco Lara-Valencia
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco
Author-X-Name-Last: Lara-Valencia
Title: Borders and Cities: Perspectives from North America and Europe
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 181-190
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854662
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Author-Name: Francisco Lara-Valencia
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco
Author-X-Name-Last: Lara-Valencia
Author-Name: Maria Elena Giner
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Elena
Author-X-Name-Last: Giner
Title: Local Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability Along the Western Reach of the US-Mexico Border
Abstract:
The US-Mexico borderland is a highly
urbanized region, with urbanization levels rivaling that of many
industrialized nations. Against this backdrop, recent studies predict a
warmer climate and increased droughts in the region that will exacerbate
competition over a limited supply of water resources and energy, in
addition to higher incidence of vector-borne disease, flooding, and heat
waves that would be more intensively felt in urban areas. This article
seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge regarding climate
change responses by municipalities on both sides of the US-Mexico border,
including their type, drivers, magnitude and sustainability. Understanding
these aspects is necessary to shed light on the challenges this border
region faces to incorporate climate change in its urban agenda and create
the governance mechanisms for effective cross-border mitigation and
adaptation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 191-204
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854656
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Author-Name: Rudolf Giffinger
Author-X-Name-First: Rudolf
Author-X-Name-Last: Giffinger
Author-Name: Alexander Hamedinger
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Hamedinger
Title: Borders in Metropolitan Development: The Case of Vienna
Abstract:
For almost two decades, Vienna, Austria's
capital city, has been coping with the processes of metropolitanization on
the urban-regional level. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, these
processes are basically related to the changing meaning of borders and the
repositioning of Vienna within Central Europe. Not surprisingly, specific
different strategic initiatives have been developed to meet the challenges
of cross-border metropolitan development. However, the positive or
negative influence of these initiatives on metropolitan development
remains unclear without the definition of assessment
criteria.To describe and assess relevant initiatives, two
specific elements of the concept of territorial capital, cooperative
efforts and relational capital, are systematically examined in this paper.
The meaning of borders, which are conceptualized as multilayered social
constructs, in both theoretical elements is especially taken into account.
Cooperative efforts are assessed by focusing on two different aspects: the
tangible assets in the form of infrastructure projects or joint activities
in businesses (i.e. addressing the economic, physical and partly social
layer/dimension of borders) and the intangible assets in the form of
collective competencies and trust (i.e. social, cultural, identity
layer/dimension of borders).Thus, questions regarding the metropolitan
development of Vienna are addressed by theoretically examining the basis
of the concept of territorial capital and by taking empirical evidence
into account. Finally, some more general conclusions concerning
cooperative strategic efforts in the context of cross-border development
and the role of the multilayered meaning of borders in shaping these
efforts are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 205-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854655
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Author-Name: Antoine Decoville
Author-X-Name-First: Antoine
Author-X-Name-Last: Decoville
Author-Name: Frédéric Durand
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric
Author-X-Name-Last: Durand
Author-Name: Christophe Sohn
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Sohn
Author-Name: Olivier Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: Comparing Cross-border Metropolitan Integration in Europe: Towards a Functional Typology
Abstract:
This article analyses the process of
spatial integration in ten European cross-border metropolitan regions by
comparing three indicators, relating to flows of cross-border commuters,
differentials of gross domestic product per capita and residents'
citizenship. Our results allow, firstly, confirmation of the hypothesis
that the greater the economic disparities, the greater the level of
interactions measured by cross-border commuting. Our work also allows
confirmation of the hypothesis that strong economic interactions have an
impact on the cross-border integration of communities, measured by the
proportion of residents based on the other side of the border. Finally,
this article leads to a typology based on three models of cross-border
integration being proposed: by specialization, by polarization and by
osmosis.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 221-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854654
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Author-Name: Bernard Reitel
Author-X-Name-First: Bernard
Author-X-Name-Last: Reitel
Title: Border Temporality and Space Integration in the European Transborder Agglomeration of Basel
Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to evaluate
the consequences of border devaluation on integration at the local level,
within the framework of European integration. The Basel trans-border
agglomeration straddles three countries: Germany, France and Switzerland,
of which the latter is not a member of the European Union (EU). At the
junction of three fields of geography, that is to say the studies of
borders, of urban geography and of temporal geography, the analysis
consists in confronting border temporalities, on the European and national
scales, with urban temporalities on the regional and local scales. In the
long term, European construction consists in creating a political
framework that generates an environment of openness and trust, which would
be favorable for Basel's transborder urban integration. However, this is
not a continuous process, but is rather divided into several stages. In
addition, transborder urban integration takes several forms that are not
necessarily synchronized. A new stage of integration has been reached
since the beginning of the 21-super-st century. The cross-border
institutionalization approach adopted by the Canton of Basel City, based
on the elaboration of plans and the foundation of a political frame, aims
to see an acknowledgement of the City in competition between metropolises
on a world-wide level. This political approach seems to be opening up new
possibilities in cross-border integration on both morphological and
functional levels.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 239-256
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854657
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Author-Name: Luisa Veronis
Author-X-Name-First: Luisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Veronis
Title: The Border and Immigrants in Ottawa-Gatineau: Governance Practices and the (Re)Production of a Dual Canadian Citizenship-super-†
Abstract:
Canada's National Capital Region, the
metropolitan area of Ottawa-Gatineau, is unique in that it is located on
the most politically and symbolically charged border within the country:
between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Although this border has
little impact on individuals' everyday mobility, major differences in
policies, institutions, and public resources affect residents on either
side. In particular, each province has its own governance structures and
practices in immigration and settlement. The paper demonstrates that these
different structures and practices in immigration and settlement across
the border generate two distinct processes of citizenship formation at the
local level that serve to (re)produce Canada's two dominant ideals of
national identity and citizenship. This case contributes to border studies
by showing (1) how internal borders serve to (re)produce multiple,
national ideals of identity and citizenship at the city scale, (2) the
existence of scalar contradictions in the transborder governance of
citizenship and identity, and (3) the significance of processes of
identity and citizenship formation in understanding the level of
integration between cross-border cities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 257-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854658
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Author-Name: Andreas Lyberatos
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Lyberatos
Title: Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration Among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 273-274
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854661
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Author-Name: Emma Hakala
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Hakala
Title: Balkan Border Crossings - First Annual of the Konitsa Summer School
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 275-276
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854659
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Author-Name: Anitta Kynsilehto
Author-X-Name-First: Anitta
Author-X-Name-Last: Kynsilehto
Title: Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 277-278
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.854660
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Author-Name: Howard Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Howard
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Author-Name: Josué G. Lachica
Author-X-Name-First: Josué G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lachica
Title: Transnational Homelessness: Finding a Place on the US-Mexico Border
Abstract:
To date, research on homeless people has
neglected three issues of growing importance: transnationalism,
biculturalism, and the emergence of neoliberal security regimes.
Homelessness is a complex and open-ended phenomenon that is too often
imagined through narrow pre-existing categories or essentialized
conceptions that are transcended by the actual experiences of people
living in cultural and political border zones. This article attempts to
address this gap in the homelessness literature through an ethnographic
study of transnational processes along the US/Mexican political and
cultural borderlands in El Paso, Texas and adjacent Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, Mexico. We argue that being homeless in border areas, in spite
of the rise of emerging new mobility restrictions, presents many
opportunities and options-especially as a result of border crossing and
the dense proximity of two countries-that are unavailable to monocultural
homeless people living in the interior of nation-states. Transnational
homeless people present challenges to traditional and new or "revisited"
concepts of homelessness, as well as neoliberal international boundary
enforcement, because they take advantage of the resources and cultures of
two countries simultaneously. They essentially live or find a place in two
nations not one, thus significantly expanding their possibilities for
sustenance and shelter. We feel that this transnational phenomenon is
likely to grow in importance in the future in relation to processes of
globalization, international migration and the heightened significance of
international borders and boundaries as security matters and as sites of
cultural hybridity and cultural differentiation. Our study can help us
deepen our understanding of the effects of asymmetrical neoliberal
security measures and the dynamics of social marginality in the 21st
century.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 279-290
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.863441
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Author-Name: William Allen
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Allen
Title: "I am From Busia!": Everyday Trading and Health Service Provision at the Kenya-Uganda Border as Place-Making Activities
Abstract:
Critical researchers in anthropology,
politics, and history have profited from the spatial turn, or the idea
that spaces produced through practices and perceptions influence
observable social action, in showing how people at borders derive specific
economic and social benefits from their unique location. This is
especially relevant in African border contexts where state presence is
often modified or resisted by local agendas. However, less work examines
how cross-border activities, locally-held perceptions, and geographic
location interact to generate different versions of what it means to "be
at" a border for border-crossers and residents themselves. This paper, in
responding to calls for interdisciplinary and multiperspectival approaches
to border studies, argues that theorizing border towns as dynamic "places"
clarifies how individuals impact and construct different meanings at and
across borders. It empirically develops this idea by examining two spheres
of everyday activity occurring at the Kenya-Uganda border: cross-border
trade and health service provision.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 291-306
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862756
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Author-Name: Ana Marleny Bustamante
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Marleny
Author-X-Name-Last: Bustamante
Title: The Impact of Post-9/11 US Policy on the California-Baja California Border Region
Abstract:
This paper explores the post-9/11 2001 US security measures and
the impact of evolving border security policy on the lives of the
residents of the California-Baja California region a decade after the 9/11
terrorist attacks. It also considers the perceptions of the border people
about this policy. It shows the results of qualitative fieldwork aimed at
answering questions related to the main changes brought about at the
border with the new policy initiatives, the effect of the creation of the
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the functioning and dynamics
of the ports of entry, the most affected groups in the local community,
their adaptation to the changing realities at the border and the border
crossings, and the differences in border perceptions of the San
Diego-Tijuana border region prior to 9/11 compared with the border today.
The literature regarding terrorism, security and borders is reviewed,
fieldwork results are presented and the findings are compared with those
of the existing literature.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 307-319
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.751729
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Author-Name: Heike Brabandt
Author-X-Name-First: Heike
Author-X-Name-Last: Brabandt
Author-Name: Steffen Mau
Author-X-Name-First: Steffen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mau
Title: Regulating Territorial Access in a Globalized World. Visa-Waiver Policies in the USA and Austria
Abstract:
The immense increase in tourist travel over
the past thirty years has made states re-arrange their border and control
policies. While there is evidence for a more restrictive approach to
control, states have also increasingly used visa-waiver policies and
lifted the visa requirement for those considered "trustworthy." In this
article, we analyze visa regulations, in particular visa waiver programs,
for short-term mobility, focusing on the USA and Austria. We demonstrate
that citizens from wealthy democracies have always been more likely to
benefit from visa-free travel than others. However, this effect has been
reinforced under processes of globalization, leading to increased
selectivity, and thus to a polarization of mobility opportunities.
Additionally, we find an increasing convergence of both visa regimes since
the 1990s.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 321-336
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862757
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Author-Name: Ruben Zaiotti
Author-X-Name-First: Ruben
Author-X-Name-Last: Zaiotti
Title: The Italo-French Row over Schengen, Critical Junctures, and the Future of Europe's Border Regime
Abstract:
The row between the French and Italian
governments over the handling of migratory flows out of North Africa in
the wake of the "jasmine revolutions" has raised some serious doubts about
the future of Schengen, the policy regime that guarantees the free
movement of people across Europe. Does this row really represent, as some
commentators have suggested, the beginning of the end for one of the key
pillars of European integration? In this paper I contend that the regime,
despite facing a critical juncture in its three decade-long history, is
not doomed. On the contrary, in the long term it might emerge reinforced
from its current predicament. To support this argument, the paper
reconstructs the evolution of Schengen's past "crises," showing how their
content, dynamics and key protagonists bear striking similarities with the
recent Franco-Italian row and its political fallout. From an institutional
perspective, these crises represent cyclical adjustment mechanisms that
have helped the regime withstand new challenges and consolidate its
presence in Europe, a process I refer to as "punctuated gradualism." The
correspondences with past events suggest that the latest crisis is leading
Schengen towards a similar institutional path.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 337-354
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
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Author-Name: Rose Jaji
Author-X-Name-First: Rose
Author-X-Name-Last: Jaji
Title: Somali Asylum Seekers and Refoulement at the Kenya-Somalia Border
Abstract:
Asylum seekers in Africa, just as across
the world, have not been spared from the politics of cross-border
migration which has become more contentious in contemporary times. This is
due to the prevailing security, economic, and cultural concerns that have
seen migrants who bear certain racial, ethnic, national, and religious
identities facing physical and legal barriers erected to curb their
inflow. This paper argues that despite the general tendency in global
political discourses to treat Africa as a monolithic entity, cross-border
migration is equally contentious in Africa as it is in other parts of the
world and is also connected to current global and regional politics in
relation to local, context-specific concerns. The paper focuses on the
forced return of Somali asylum seekers to Somalia by Kenyan authorities in
January 2007 and is framed within the context of broader research
conducted from 2006-2007 and in 2012 on refugees self-settled in Nairobi,
Kenya.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 355-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862758
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Author-Name: Michael J. Strauss
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Strauss
Title: Boundaries in the Sky and a Theory of Three-Dimensional States
Abstract:
Airspace is a component of every nation's
sovereign territory, but its upper border is uncertain. This article
assesses the prospects for height limits to be created for airspace as
increasing high-altitude human activity leads to events that will require
jurisdiction to be determined. Taking the notion of an upper boundary to
airspace, the paper develops a description of nations as three-dimensional
territorial constructs. Among the implications of this would be a
multiplication of state borders and border phenomena, and the potential
for nations to be adjacent to each other vertically as well as
horizontally.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 369-382
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862761
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Author-Name: Carsten Yndigegn
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Yndigegn
Title: Luxembourg: An Emerging Cross-border Metropolitan Region
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 383-384
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862764
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Author-Name: Kimberly Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Kimberly
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: Our North America: Social and Political Issues Beyond NAFTA
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 385-386
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862762
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Author-Name: Heather Nicol
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicol
Title: Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 387-388
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2013.862763
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Author-Name: Willem van Schendel
Author-X-Name-First: Willem
Author-X-Name-Last: van Schendel
Author-Name: Erik de Maaker
Author-X-Name-First: Erik
Author-X-Name-Last: de Maaker
Title: Asian Borderlands: Introducing their Permeability, Strategic Uses and Meanings
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 3-9
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892689
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Author-Name: Michael Eilenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Eilenberg
Title: Evading Colonial Authority. Rebels and Outlaws in the Borderlands of Dutch West Borneo 1850s-1920s
Abstract:
Borderlands in Southeast Asia are frequently
portrayed as being outside state influence, as zones of anarchy where
identities are flexible, loyalties ephemeral and state authority largely
avoided. Depicted by shifting state administrators as rebels and outlaws
roaming the border hills the populations inhabiting these edges of states
further seem especially resistant towards officialdom through their
engagement in law-bending practices and a heightened sense of autonomy.
This paper examines these dynamics as they unravel on the island of Borneo
during the Dutch colonial administration in the mid-19-super-th century
and thus aims to contribute to the growing historiography of Southeast
Asian borderlands and the more localized dynamics of state formation. By
contrasting local Iban narratives and discourses with colonial records in
the border regency of Boven-Kapoeas in Dutch West Borneo I show how
renowned rebel leaders did their best to take advantage of the differing
terms and conditions that colonial rule offered on either side of the
border and thus openly challenged colonial state authority. The rebel
defiance of colonial authority forced the colonial administrators to
impose strict control along the Dutch and British border of Borneo. It is
argued that the rebellions and consequent Dutch attempt to establish law
and order, largely contributed to the territorial demarcation of the
colonial state.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 11-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892690
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Author-Name: Soe Lin Aung
Author-X-Name-First: Soe Lin
Author-X-Name-Last: Aung
Title: The Friction of Cartography: On the Politics of Space and Mobility among Migrant Communities in the Thai-Burma Borderlands
Abstract:
The dominant approach to understanding migration in
the Thai-Burma borderlands frames migration largely as an economic effect
of industrialization in Thailand and economic stagnation in Burma. Drawing
on a range of secondary sources and long-term field-based research on the
Thai-Burma border, this article pursues a different approach, seeking to
situate current migration trends in a historical and political context.
James Scott's recent work on Zomia and upland Southeast Asia is
instrumental here. Key factors Scott cites as drivers of flight from state
space over the longue durée-taxation, forced or corvée labor, and war and
rebellion-remain strikingly relevant today. This article examines the
applicability of Scott's migration analysis to contemporary mobility
patterns in the Thai-Burma borderlands, proposing two concepts that
highlight the politics of mobility in this border area: the friction of
cartography and migrant counter-topographies. The former evokes the
protective quality of the border line itself, whereby ostensibly economic
migrants who cross it achieve a measure of distance and refuge vis-à-vis
Burma's predatory state structures, especially the military; the latter
seeks to name the spaces created by migrants to evade forms and structures
of state power, in both Thailand and Burma. I argue that today's migrant
communities, far from being overdetermined reflections of recent trends in
political economy, much resemble Scott's state-evading peasants from
centuries past, displaying political agency and intentionality in their
strategic use of space to seek and secure refuge in the Thai-Burma
borderlands.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 27-45
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892691
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Author-Name: Alexander Horstmann
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Horstmann
Title: Stretching the Border: Confinement, Mobility and the Refugee Public among Karen Refugees in Thailand and Burma
Abstract:
In this paper, I hope to add a complementary
perspective to James Scott's recent work on avoidance strategies of
subaltern mountain people by focusing on what I call the refugee public.
The educated Karen elite uses the space of exile in the Thai borderland to
reconstitute resources and to re-enter Karen state in Eastern Burma as
humanitarians, providing medical, educational resources and help to
document human rights violations and do advocacy work. In addition, local
missionaries and faith-based groups also use the corridor to spread the
word of God. I argue that Karen humanitarian community-based organizations
succeed to stretch the border by establishing a firm presence that is
supported by the international humanitarian economy in the refugee camps
in Northwestern Thailand.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 47-61
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892692
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Author-Name: Debojyoti Das
Author-X-Name-First: Debojyoti
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Title: Understanding Margins, State Power, Space and Territoriality in the Naga Hills
Abstract:
The Naga Hills frontier of British India, located
between present day India and Burma, should not only be seen as a
geographical or political construction, territorialized by states'
administrative and political practices, but as a space of culture and
resources. In this paper I argue that the colonial frontier of the Naga
Hills does not present a homogenous "out-of-the-way" place, but is
mediated by the practice of colonial territorialization, based on the
politics of "cultural difference" and the construction of the "other." The
notion of a uniform state space is contested in the present reading of
Naga Hills as a frontier. Indeed, I seek to show how multiple, contingent
spaces exist, which are the converse of a homogenous marginal state space.
Further, I argue that the practices of territorialization are to be
located against the backdrop of the late 19-super-th century global
economic transformation (the establishment of world markets through trade
and monopoly through plantation farming) and territorial portioning and
redefinition, and based on ethnic classification or "ethno-genesis" (the
classification of hill people as opposed to the plains). The present
analysis is of relevance to world regions, as it helps us to understand
the colonial strategies of territorialization that have shaped
contemporary ethnic identity struggles within borderlands.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 63-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892693
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Author-Name: Duncan McDuie-Ra
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: McDuie-Ra
Title: The India-Bangladesh Border Fence: Narratives and Political Possibilities
Abstract:
The fencing of the India-Bangladesh border mirrors
Scott's understanding of "final enclosure" wherein "distance-demolishing
technologies" and "modern conceptions of sovereignty" converge to
demarcate firm boundaries of territory from previously ambiguous space
(Scott, J. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of
Southeast Asia, 11. New Haven: Yale University Press). This paper examines
the different narratives surrounding the fence at the national level in
India and in the borderland itself, focussing on the state of Meghalaya.
These narratives reveal the ways the border fence is discussed and
understood and the political positions taken on the fence in these
different spaces. In examining these I present two key findings. The first
is that the border fence is narrated and politicized differently at the
national level and in the borderland. The second is that within the
borderlands there is not a singular "borderland narrative" of the fence
but several, reflecting dominant political positions already entrenched
and new ways of articulating insecurity being brought by fence
construction; though the former is more prominent than the latter.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 81-94
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892694
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Author-Name: Ellen Bal
Author-X-Name-First: Ellen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bal
Author-Name: Timour Claquin Chambugong
Author-X-Name-First: Timour Claquin
Author-X-Name-Last: Chambugong
Title: The Borders that Divide, the Borders that Unite: (Re)interpreting Garo Processes of Identification in India and Bangladesh
Abstract:
The people known as Garos, from the Garo Hills and
adjacent (lowland) areas in India and Bangladesh, have never constituted
one unified and self-defined in-group, although British colonial rule
indeed produced a feeble notion of an imagined Garo community. Hence, the
international border of 1947 formalized certain distinctions between hill
Garos and lowlanders that had existed much longer, and gave a further
impetus to the articulations of ethnic identities in different spaces. In
recent years, however, we do see different attempts by the Garos to
establish linkages across the border. This paper examines these processes
of disconnection, exemplified by and through the international border, of
unification (within the nation-state), and of (re)connection (across the
border). We also try to show how the different strategies of the Indian
and Pakistani/Bangladeshi states, in dealing with the populations in their
borderlands, have impacted local processes of self-identification and
self-assertion in significantly different ways, but with similar outcomes.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 95-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.892695
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Author-Name: Bruno Dupeyron
Author-X-Name-First: Bruno
Author-X-Name-Last: Dupeyron
Title: Portugal e Espanha. Entre Discursos de Centro e Prácticas de Fronteira
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 111-112
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.891420
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Author-Name: D. Rick Van Schoik
Author-X-Name-First: D. Rick
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Schoik
Title: Disasters without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 113-114
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.891421
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Author-Name: Tatiana Tiaynen
Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiaynen
Title: Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 115-116
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.891422
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Author-Name: Paolo Cuttitta
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Cuttitta
Title: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Grenzsaum: Reading Ratzel in the Strait of Sicily
Abstract:
Migration controls are more and more transforming
borders. In this regard, this paper is a border case study focusing on the
Strait of Sicily. It analyzes the border regime between Italy and its
North African neighboring countries Tunisia and Libya from the point of
view of the transformations of territorial borders in space and time. It
provides an inventory of border control measures and instruments, and
analyzes the way they actually work. The evolution of policies and
practices of migration controls results in transformations of territorial
borders not only in terms of their location (inward and outward
flexibilization of the border) but also in terms of their shape (from
boundary lines to border zones or points) and operational modalities (from
fixity in space and continuity in time to mobility and intermittency).
Border transformations are analyzed before the background of Ratzel's idea
of Grenzsaum, that is of a borderland both in the sense of a border strip
straddling two bounded territories or lying on just one side of a
territorial linear border, and in the sense of a buffer zone lying between
two territories.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 117-131
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.915701
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Author-Name: Jaume Castan Pinos
Author-X-Name-First: Jaume
Author-X-Name-Last: Castan Pinos
Title: The Conflicting Aims of the European Neighborhood Policy and its Secondary Effects
Abstract:
Protecting the external borders of the European
Union (EU) has been one of the key priorities of European policy makers in
the last decade. Extending border controls beyond EU territories in order
to fight ongoing issues such as migration has been one of the major
strategies conducted by the EU to guarantee the security of Europe's
borders. The European Neighborhood Policy has played a pivotal role in
ensuring that the neighbors complied with the EU's interest by offering
political and economic rewards. Compliance is also enhanced through the
"Seville Doctrine." The paper challenges the idea that the "war on
migrants" is a common shared interest for the EU and North African states,
arguing that it is rather an EU security interest which does not
necessarily correspond with the neighbors priorities. Finally, the paper
focuses on the implementation of externalization in Morocco and critically
analyzes the non-desired secondary effects generated by the adoption of
EU-made migration policies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 133-146
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.915703
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Author-Name: Susan Ball
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Ball
Title: On the "Doing" of Visual Research on Borders and Migration: Collaboration between Professional Photographers, Social Scientists and Subjects
Abstract:
Conceptual and theoretical contributions to border
studies have advanced alongside photography; however, incorporating
research on the visual aspects of border studies is in need of attention
at present. Among photographers, social scientists, and their participant
subjects, collaborative fieldwork is certainly conducive to a dialogical
approach, one in which partners might work collectively towards new
conceptualizations on borders and migration. This paper points to a number
of practical issues that need to be addressed during the preparation,
undertaking, and dissemination of collaborative fieldwork and research.
Although legal and ethical considerations are shown to work alongside
institutional and market criteria, especially in limiting the practice of
visual research on borders and migration, the participation of
professional photographers in fieldwork can advance a critical re-reading
of border studies in concept and theory.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 147-164
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.916066
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Author-Name: Alberto Gasparini
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Gasparini
Title: Belonging and Identity in the European Border Towns: Self-Centered Borders, Hetero-Centered Borders
Abstract:
This paper investigates the complexity
specific to the concept of belonging and identity at the European border
area level. These issues are explored by a research on European border
cities, within which factorial meanings are identified. There are five of
such meanings: feelings of security and community, contents of the
originality, negative soul of ethnic cosmopolitanism, aesthetics of time,
and border town evoking marginalization. These meanings are used to
identify clusters of borders, which are: central European borders,
central-northern European borders, borders where negative meanings are
prevalent, the Polish-Belarus-Lithuanian borders, border towns where being
a town is worth more than being on a border. These perspectives allow for
verification of how borders are either hetero-centered or self-centered.
Hetero-centered borders project their own belongings and identities to the
cities which are located beyond the border. Self-centered borders project
belongings and identities to their own national city, region, nation. The
paper ends by identifying self-centered and hetero-centered borders
individually in their capacity to express cooperation among cities located
on both sides of the border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 165-201
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.916067
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Author-Name: Anna-Lena Hoh
Author-X-Name-First: Anna-Lena
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoh
Title: "Voir l'Autre"? Seeing the Other, the Developments of the Arab Spring and the European Neighborhood Policy toward Algeria and Tunisia
Abstract:
The European Union (EU) is not only affecting
European space, but is also trying to spread "prosperity, stability and
security" in its immediate geographical surroundings (European Commission.
n.d. European Neighborhood Policy.
http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/index_en.htm). Therefore the European
Neighborhood Policy (ENP) was developed to address regional differences at
the external border in the immediate neighborhood of the EU. To influence
beyond its own boundaries, the EU tries to convince the partner countries
(the countries addressed through the ENP) through partial inclusion and
conditionality. This article will regard the perception of the EU of its
geographical neighbors beyond its own border by analyzing official EU
documents. As a result of the unexpected developments of the Arab Spring
in 2011, the EU needed to adjust its approach towards its neighborhood.
This paper will analyze to what extent the Union is acknowledging its
"others," its partner countries before and after the beginning of the Arab
Spring. This will be approached according to a concept of Albert Camus who
proposed "seeing the other" (voir l'autre) as an option to render conflict
unnecessary. Building upon this concept this article also introduces the
exploratory concept of "listening to the other" (écouter l'autre).
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 203-216
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.916068
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Author-Name: David S. Salisbury
Author-X-Name-First: David S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salisbury
Author-Name: Ben G. Weinstein
Author-X-Name-First: Ben G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weinstein
Title: Cultural Diversity in the Amazon Borderlands: Implications for Conservation and Development
Abstract:
The Amazon basin, one of the world's core
areas for biocultural diversity, includes or borders on nine South
American states. The remote and biodiverse Amazon borderlands shared by
these states contain over 12,000 kilometers of international boundaries
and are increasingly threatened by transboundary infrastructure
initiatives. This paper combines geographic information systems (GIS),
field observations, and document research to investigate the relationship
between cultural diversity and the Amazon borderlands: (1) Are the
borderlands more culturally diverse than the Amazonian countries and
Amazonian lowland rainforest biome? (2) If so, what characterizes this
diversity? Results introduce the unique characteristics of the Amazon
borderlands and underscore the argument for an alternative means of Amazon
integration based on standing forest and biocultural diversity.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 217-241
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.916462
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Author-Name: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Author-X-Name-First: Guadalupe
Author-X-Name-Last: Correa-Cabrera
Author-Name: Terence M. Garrett
Author-X-Name-First: Terence M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Garrett
Title: The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear: Security and the Reality of the US-Mexico Border
Abstract:
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological
approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the
US-Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by "others" to
be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and
undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region
experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the
rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and define the
inhabitants. In many instances, the effects of border violence are
exaggerated in ways that benefit political and corporate interests;
moreover, this specific tactic operates to squeeze and constrain efforts
aimed at civic engagement and public input in policies. We expose
perceptions and misperceptions on issues related to fear, and explain the
ways in which fear can be expropriated as a social construct that prevents
meaningful political dialogue.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 243-255
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.915700
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Author-Name: Juan-Manuel Trillo-Santamaría
Author-X-Name-First: Juan-Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Trillo-Santamaría
Title: Cross-Border Regions: The Gap Between the Elite's Projects and People's Awareness. Reflections from the Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion
Abstract:
In the last 20 years, numerous cross-border
regions have been launched across Europe. Many studies have been carried
out dealing with the analysis of regional building processes. Most of them
focus on the work developed by local elites profiting from economic,
political and institutional factors to build up cross-border regions.
Studies focusing on people's knowledge of these cross-border projects and
regions have also been developed. The gap that might open up between the
elite's projects and people's knowledge of them can raise several
questions: is cross-border cooperation better understood as a functional
or as a democratic and participatory opportunity? Are cross-border regions
the desired laboratories for European integration? Are border people
engaged in this institutionalized cooperation? First of all, this
contribution will discuss these general questions in light of recent
theoretical and practical studies on European cross-border cooperation.
Secondly, it will exemplify the theory with a case study on the
Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion. After briefly presenting the main
actors and processes involved in the cross-border region building, this
paper shows the results of fieldwork based on a survey conducted by the
author in Galicia and North Portugal. The investigation had three
objectives: (a) to assess general knowledge of the term Euroregion, the
cross-border bodies and the cross-border projects; (b) to assess the
degree of relevance of cross-border cooperation to euroregional
integration; and (c) to assess the degree of similarities and differences
between Galicians and Northern Portuguese. The results of the survey show
that the inhabitants of Galicia and North Portugal are mostly unaware of
the existence and working methods of the different bodies that sustain the
Euroregion, although they express a high level of interest in fostering
cross-border cooperation initiatives and a high degree of empathy towards
neighbors. This paper concludes by discussing the results of the case
study in relation to the theoretical aspects presented in the first
part.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 257-273
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.915704
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Author-Name: Vicente German-Soto
Author-X-Name-First: Vicente
Author-X-Name-Last: German-Soto
Title: Assessing the Historical Water Flow Allocation in the Lower Rio Grande between Mexico and the United States
Abstract:
Allocation of water resources between Mexico and
the United States is a sensitive agenda in the lower Rio Grande, mainly in
stages of hard drought. It has allowed surface water allocation practices
to evolve and continue to be refined. This work applies the cointegration
theory on historical data of water flows with the aim of showing empirical
evidence on volumes of water running along the lower Rio Grande. The
analysis suggests that misleading conclusions can be obtained about water
distribution if the presence of structural breaks is not taken into
account when assessing the fulfillment of contracts. The estimations
indicate that water flows have not been constant over time; nevertheless,
this pattern seems to respond to external events such as changes in the
treaties, drought stages, and infrastructure conditions that possibly
altered the water flows. After one structural break is controlled for, it
is possible to determine that water volumes were according with the laws
during 1933-2004.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 275-289
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.915702
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Author-Name: John P. Bélec
Author-X-Name-First: John P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bélec
Author-Name: Patrick H. Buckley
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Buckley
Title: Democracy and the Space of Energy Flows: The Practice of Bordered Transnationalism in the Pacific Northwest
Abstract:
This article presents an empirical analysis of border place-making in the
Fraser Lowland cross-border region (CBR) of southwest British Columbia,
northwest Washington, often referred to as the Pacific Northwest. For five
years, beginning in 1999, a protracted legal battle over the construction
of a power plant, Sumas Energy 2 (SE2), on the Washington side of the
border forced regulatory agencies in the US and Canada to define a
regional public vis-à-vis energy provision and its impacts. Their
decisions on jurisdiction were mixed and, in some cases, unprecedented.
Taken together with the implicit pursuit by the North American Free Trade
Agreement of a borderless trade in energy, we explore the nature of border
space that came to be applied to this CBR.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 291-301
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938967
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Author-Name: Michael J. Pisani
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pisani
Title: Utilizing Informal Household-Work Substitutes along the US-Mexico Border: Evidence from South Texas
Abstract:
Utilizing a unique sample of 357 consumers from South Texas, this paper
explores the informal or "off the books" consumption of house-work
substitutes. Specifically, two ubiquitous house-work services, house
cleaning and yard work, are examined. Regionally, these household maid and
gardening services are typically exchanged within an informal cross-border
market. As such the determinants of consuming these services are estimated
from the perspective of the South Texas borderlands informal consumer.
Among the key results, income is an important marker in the ability to
consume house-work substitutes where those with more resources are able to
pass along house-work duties to others. Hence, informal maid and gardening
services are normal goods. Other results and policy considerations are
discussed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 303-317
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938970
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Author-Name: Ad Knotter
Author-X-Name-First: Ad
Author-X-Name-Last: Knotter
Title: Perspectives on Cross-Border Labor in Europe: "(Un)familiarity" or "Push-and-Pull"?
Abstract:
A common explanation for the incidence and development of cross-border
labor are cross-border economic disparities and uneven economic
developments: in border regions with high levels of cross-border labor,
important growth poles with high wages and employment opportunities at a
short distance at one side of the border, attract workers from a less
developed side. Recently, however, geographers Henk van Houtum and Martin
van der Velde have argued that this can only be part of the story. Because
of "unfamiliarity" with life in bordering nation states there are
invisible mental "thresholds of indifference," that prevent an orientation
towards the other side and an optimal allocation of labor across borders.
In this collection of articles my co-editor, Martin Klatt, and I want to
assess how these two approaches can be balanced in research on
cross-border labor markets in Europe. Is it possible to overcome the
inherent tension between them? We will address the historical impact of
state borders on cross-border labor mobility in borderlands. When could
mental barriers of "unfamiliarity" be overcome by localized
"push-and-pull"? In what circumstances could the full effect of
"push-and-pull" be hampered by "unfamiliarity"?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 319-326
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938972
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Author-Name: Dorte Jagetić Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Dorte Jagetić
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Title: Do if you Dare: Reflections on (Un)familiarity, Identity-Formation and Ontological Politics
Abstract:
The article argues that in order to investigate effects of (un)familiarity
on (im)mobility patterns in the context of border practices it is
necessary to liberate the notion from what seems to be a constitutive tie
to interactions between (most often two) different national populations.
So far most empirical studies of the effects of (un)familiarity on border
mobility in Europe have taken distinctions between national populations as
their starting-point, thus limiting the scope of the investigation and to
some extent also inventing national stereotypes. As an alternative, the
article suggests that we appropriate (un)familiarity as the point of
departure for an investigation of identity-formation in the context of
border practices. Feelings of (un)familiarity occur in relation to broader
notions of identity-formation than the hegemony of national identity, and
the concept provides us with a tool whereby we can investigate effects of
identity-formation on (im)mobility patterns as multiple rather than
one-dimensional phenomena. To provide a foundation for conceiving
identity-formation in multiple form, (un)familiarity is explored as an
analytical concept, which fits into the frame of what the post-ANT
scholar, Annemarie Mol has called "ontological politics." Access is
thereby provided to understanding bordered identities as a politically
charged living-in-tension in-between the territorial closedness of borders
and the relational promise of open borders--and it is clarified how we can
best capture such processes by locating our research in the very same
tensions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 327-337
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938966
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Author-Name: Bianca Szytniewski
Author-X-Name-First: Bianca
Author-X-Name-Last: Szytniewski
Author-Name: Bas Spierings
Author-X-Name-First: Bas
Author-X-Name-Last: Spierings
Title: Encounters with Otherness: Implications of (Un)familiarity for Daily Life in Borderlands
Abstract:
While the European Union aims to diminish and remove borders as obstacles
for integration, state borders continue to mark differences between
countries. People living in borderlands may feel near to and familiar with
"the other side" but far away and unfamiliar at the same time.
Scrutinizing the concept of (un)familiarity promises intriguing insights
into understanding how people perceive and interpret differences and
similarities in borderlands, their implications for cross-border leisure
and labor practices, and related attitudes towards sameness and otherness.
With a relational perspective on borders, this paper therefore aims to
unravel the complexity of the (un)familiarity concept by attempting to
find an answer to the question how familiarity and/or unfamiliarity come
into being and develop during daily encounters in borderlands? Our
examination of the (un)familiarity concept reveals dynamic and
interrelated dimensions of (un)familiarity--i.e. experiential,
informational, self-assessed and proximate. Depending on the ways in which
people perceive and interpret sameness and otherness, different degrees
and forms of (un)familiarity are at play, resulting in cross-border
attention, interaction or avoidance in everyday life.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 339-351
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938971
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Author-Name: Martin Klatt
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Klatt
Title: (Un)Familiarity? Labor Related Cross-Border Mobility in Sønderjylland/Schleswig Since Denmark Joined the EC in 1973
Abstract:
This article presents an analysis of recent developments in labor-related
mobility (cross-border commuting) in the Danish-German border region of
Sønderjylland-Schleswig. The region had an integrated labor market, until
today's German-Danish border was drawn in 1920, dividing the historic
Duchy of Schleswig. Until Denmark joined the EC in 1973, the Danish-German
border was practically closed to labor-related mobility. Since then,
commuting remained at very low levels until the mid-2000s, even though
unemployment figures north and south of the border developed unevenly, and
two national minorities had strong social and cultural ties across the
border. From about 2005-2008 there was a drastic increase in commuting
from Germany to Denmark, while commuting in the other direction has
remained at a very low level. Here, the article comes up with some
explanations for this development using the concept of (Un)Familiarity as
developed by Bas Spierings and Martin van der Velde.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 353-373
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938968
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Author-Name: Ad Knotter
Author-X-Name-First: Ad
Author-X-Name-Last: Knotter
Title: Changing Border Regimes, Mining, and Cross-border Labor in the Dutch-Belgian-German Borderlands, 1900-1973
Abstract:
In this article the incidence of cross-border commuting to the mining
districts in the Belgian-Dutch-German borderlands, known today as the
Euregion Meuse-Rhine, will be related to the impact of state borders in
different periods. Cross-border labor was closely related to changing
border regimes based on uneven economic development, (un)familiarity, and
the policy impact of powerful institutions like the state and the church.
The main argument is that after the First World War in Dutch Limburg a
conscious policy to control the labor force and bind them to mining in the
region was relatively successful. Discrepancies in wages and employment
opportunities led to border-crossing during restricted periods and for
specific groups of workers only.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 375-384
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.938969
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Author-Name: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Author-X-Name-First: Guadalupe
Author-X-Name-Last: Correa-Cabrera
Author-Name: Kathleen Staudt
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Staudt
Title: An Introduction to the Multiple US-Mexico Borders
Abstract:
In this, a thematic issue on multiple borders, our goal is to unpack the
lengthy border to explore differences and similarities from the western
industrialized Tijuana-San Diego Pacific coastal region, the de-populated
Sonora-Arizona desert, the densely settled global manufacturing central
Paso del Norte site, and the agricultural spaces and smaller urban
settlements of South Texas-northeastern Mexico. This thematic volume
includes seven articles that not only reveal contextual differences at
"multiple" US-Mexico borders, but also the overarching themes of violence
and dehumanization from media and policy constructions--that are derived
from constant trans-border flows, both legal and illicit. The relevant
differences complicate public policy impacts, social and environmental
issues, and action strategies for the future, posing intriguing new
research with implications for borderlands in other world regions. In
unpacking the lengthy US-Mexico border to analyze differences, we hope to
stimulate thinking about other borderlands around the world for which
overgeneralizations may have also been made, just as with the research on
the US-Mexico borderlands.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 385-390
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982473
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Author-Name: Olivia T. Ruiz Marrujo
Author-X-Name-First: Olivia T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruiz Marrujo
Title: Undocumented Families in Times of Deportation at the San Diego-Tijuana Border
Abstract:
Immigration policy in recent years has led to the deportation of thousands
of undocumented parents of US citizen children. In the first six months of
FY 2011, almost 47,000 undocumented parents were deported from the
country. This article examines how US policy came to allow, if not
prescribe, the separation of undocumented parents from their sons and
daughters. Drawing on evidence from the San Diego-Tijuana border, it
reviews critical moments in the history of deportation and reflects on how
that history laid the groundwork for the complex and dysfunctional
connections between the immigration and child welfare systems that have
led to forced family separation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 391-403
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vélez-Ibáñez
Author-Name: Elsie Szecsy
Author-X-Name-First: Elsie
Author-X-Name-Last: Szecsy
Title: Politics, Process, Culture and Human Folly: Life among Arizonans and the Reality of a Transborder World
Abstract:
In this article we explain the development of anti-Mexican nationalist
ideology among Arizona's legislative body and the development of
counterpoints of action and resistance and the role the School of
Transborder Studies at Arizona State University is playing locally,
regionally, nationally, and transnationally in countering this ideology.
It considers that such measures as Arizona SB 1070 law passed by the
Arizona legislature in 2010 has historical antecedents early in the
development of the Arizona territory in the 19-super-th century. Once
Mexican-origin populations became demographically and politically
subordinated in the region at that time, numerous measures ensued, which
attempted to subordinate much of the cultural, linguistic, and spatial
heritage of the population since then. However, in spite of these
processes that Mexican-origin populations simultaneously created and
became a part of, countervailing linguistic, cultural, and public
developments and innovations emerged. Issues of culture, language, and
demography that arose by the 1980s provided new impetus leading to new
versions of the old political and social histories. We discuss changing
political demography resulting from the population increases of
Mexican-origin populations in Arizona and fear of political power shifts
from non-Mexicans as possibly a factor in the emergence of the most recent
versions of anti-Mexican political behavior. We also discuss fresh winds
of change in opposition to these developments that emanate from religious,
secular, and educational institutions and seem to favor more rationale
approaches to resolving issues of legality, migration, and culture. These
developments create new cultural and social spaces to address the region's
social and political problems.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 405-417
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Author-X-Name-First: Guadalupe
Author-X-Name-Last: Correa-Cabrera
Title: Violence on the "Forgotten" Border: Mexico's Drug War, the State, and the Paramilitarization of Organized Crime in Tamaulipas in a "New Democratic Era"
Abstract:
This article explains the high levels of violence on the Mexican side of
the Texas-Tamaulipas border. The study finds that the recent violence
increase in this region--referred to as the "forgotten border" in this
writing--has been the result of the following factors: a new configuration
of organized crime in a new democratic era, the separation of the Zetas
from the Gulf Cartel, the security strategy of the Mexican government, a
stagnant economy, and rampant corruption. These conditions have
contributed to the gradual loss of the "monopoly" of the legitimate use of
violence by the State in some regions of Mexico, particularly in
Tamaulipas.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 419-433
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982888
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Author-Name: Tony Payan
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Payan
Title: Ciudad Juárez: A Perfect Storm on the US-Mexico Border
Abstract:
Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso, Texas, suffered an unprecedented
downfall into violence and chaos between 2007 and 2012. It came to be
known in 2010 as "the most dangerous city in the world." What can cause a
city to spiral downward into bloodshed and turmoil in the way that Ciudad
Juárez did? This article makes the argument that the city's descent into
violence and chaos is the result of a number of poor decisions made over
the course of the 40 years preceding the bloodshed of the years under
examination. The border in turn, this article argues, constitutes the most
important contextual variable in determining the political, economic,
social and cultural decision making of the city's leadership and its
people. It was the city's overreliance on the advantages that its border
location conferred on it for a long time what ended up generating a series
of inbuilt weaknesses in its economic development model, its social and
cultural fabric, and its political landscape that would eventually cause
the city to collapse when external decision makers, from federal
politicians to criminals, made decisions that exposed its inbuilt
weaknesses.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 435-447
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Irasema Coronado
Author-X-Name-First: Irasema
Author-X-Name-Last: Coronado
Title: Whither the Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations on Multiple Regions of the US-Mexico Border?
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to analyze what has happened to the US-Mexico
border region's environmental nongovernmental organization (ENGO) sector
and to understand how it fared over time by interviewing leaders of these
groups in multiple regions on the border. ENGOs gained saliency and
momentum during the NAFTA negotiations and were able to address
environmental problems on the border. Almost 20 years later, some ENGOs no
longer exist due to funding, structural and leadership challenges.
However, as this research indicates, committed people still provide
environmental leadership on the multiple sites along the border, not
necessarily through ENGOs, but in other capacities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 449-464
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982467
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Author-Name: Kathleen Staudt
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Staudt
Title: The Border, Performed in Films: Produced in both Mexico and the US to "Bring Out the Worst in a Country"
Abstract:
Border scholars have long understood borders as social constructions
around territories and identities. Drawing on interdisciplinary
perspectives, my objective is to analyze the cultural production and
"othering" processes of the multiple US-Mexico borderlands via
good-quality films emanating from both Mexico City and the US,
particularly Hollywood, in two periods: historical background on the
1930s-1980s and the contemporary period of the last two decades. I compare
differences across multiple border sites along the near 2,000 mile
line--west coast Pacific, central El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, and east coast
Gulf of Mexico--as well as those sites inbetween. My overarching argument
is that the film industry itself brings out the worst of countries in the
US-Mexico borderlands. By "worst," I mean lawlessness, sexual violence,
deaths, and drugs, with "othering" processes alive and well on both sides
of the border. As such, in both historical and contemporary films,
everyday lives in the borderlands are not well represented.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 465-479
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982471
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Author-Name: David A. Shirk
Author-X-Name-First: David A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shirk
Title: A Tale of Two Mexican Border Cities: The Rise and Decline of Drug Violence in Juárez and Tijuana
Abstract:
This paper examines the tale of the two cities, Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana.
These two municipalities are the largest of Mexico's metropolises along
the country's roughly 2,000-mile frontier with the United States, the
longest land border between the "global north" and the "global south."
This narrative builds on several years of research regarding Mexico's rule
of law challenges, during which the author conducted multiple field
research trips to both Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana. By virtue of their
status as border cities, both lie at the fringes of the state and the very
limits of its coercive monopoly on force. Consequentially, these are two
cities that also stand at the frontiers of globalization, thanks to the
opening of trade, new technologies, and infrastructure that has expanded
flows of commerce, capital, and people across the US-Mexican border. This
article examines the factors that contributed to the eruption of enormous
violence in both cities around 2008, and the factors that contributed to
its gradual reduction in both places. The author explains that the
socio-economic context in these two border cities has deprived individuals
of educational and employment opportunities, while the international
market for illicit drugs has helped to fill the gap. Ultimately, though,
the author argues that violence among drug trafficking organizations
resulted from splits and the breakdown of alliances attributable to
dynamics within and among these organizations, as well as newfound
pressures from US and Mexican law enforcement. The author contends that
the reduction of violence can be attributed to the gradual monopolization
of control over organized criminal activities by the Sinaloa cartel.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 481-502
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982470
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Author-Name: Cédric Parizot
Author-X-Name-First: Cédric
Author-X-Name-Last: Parizot
Author-Name: Anne Laure Amilhat Szary
Author-X-Name-First: Anne Laure Amilhat
Author-X-Name-Last: Szary
Author-Name: Gabriel Popescu
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel
Author-X-Name-Last: Popescu
Author-Name: Isabelle Arvers
Author-X-Name-First: Isabelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Arvers
Author-Name: Thomas Cantens
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Cantens
Author-Name: Jean Cristofol
Author-X-Name-First: Jean
Author-X-Name-Last: Cristofol
Author-Name: Nicola Mai
Author-X-Name-First: Nicola
Author-X-Name-Last: Mai
Author-Name: Joana Moll
Author-X-Name-First: Joana
Author-X-Name-Last: Moll
Author-Name: Antoine Vion
Author-X-Name-First: Antoine
Author-X-Name-Last: Vion
Title: "The antiAtlas of Borders, A Manifesto"
Abstract:
The antiAtlas of Borders is an experimentation at the crossroads of
research, art and practice. It was launched in 2011 at the Mediterranean
Institute of Advanced Studies (Aix Marseille University), and has been
co-produced by the Higher School of Art (Aix en Provence), PACTE
laboratory (University of Grenoble-CNRS), Isabelle Arvers and La
compagnie. Since then, it has gathered researchers (social and hard
scientists), artists (web artists, tactical geographers, hackers,
filmmakers, etc.) and professionals (customs, industry, military, etc.).
The encounter of people coming from these different fields of knowledge
and practice aims to create a radical shift of perspective in the way we
apprehend both 21-super-st century borders and the boundaries separating
fields of knowledge, art and practice.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 503-512
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.983302
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Author-Name: Beth Admiraal
Author-X-Name-First: Beth
Author-X-Name-Last: Admiraal
Title: Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 513-514
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982980
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Author-Name: David Gaunt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gaunt
Title: Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany and Britain 1880-1914
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 515-516
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982981
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Author-Name: Serghei Golunov
Author-X-Name-First: Serghei
Author-X-Name-Last: Golunov
Title: The EU-Russian Borderland: New Contexts for Regional Cooperation
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 517-518
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982982
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Author-Name: Jari Kupiainen
Author-X-Name-First: Jari
Author-X-Name-Last: Kupiainen
Title: Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 519-520
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982983
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Author-Name: Tuulikki Kurki
Author-X-Name-First: Tuulikki
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurki
Title: Perspectives on Mobility
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 521-522
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982984
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Author-Name: Thomas Lundén
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundén
Title: Nation Split by the Border. Changes in the Ethnic Identity, Religion and Language of the Karelians from 1809 to 2009
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 523-524
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982985
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Author-Name: Sander Meijerink
Author-X-Name-First: Sander
Author-X-Name-Last: Meijerink
Title: Crossing Borders, Creating and Managing Cross-Border Regional Alliances: Practical Handbook to the Crossing Borders Theory
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 525-525
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982987
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Author-Name: Heather Nicol
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicol
Title: Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 527-528
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982988
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Author-Name: Natalia Taksami
Author-X-Name-First: Natalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Taksami
Title: Eastern Sámi Atlas
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 529-530
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982989
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Author-Name: Tiina Sotkasiira
Author-X-Name-First: Tiina
Author-X-Name-Last: Sotkasiira
Title: Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home: Youth, Gender, Asylum
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 531-532
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982990
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Author-Name: Timofey Agarin
Author-X-Name-First: Timofey
Author-X-Name-Last: Agarin
Title: Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 533-534
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982991
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Author-Name: Randy William Widdis
Author-X-Name-First: Randy William
Author-X-Name-Last: Widdis
Title: North American Borderlands
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 535-536
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982992
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Author-Name: Jussi Laine
Author-X-Name-First: Jussi
Author-X-Name-Last: Laine
Title: Association of Borderland Studies' World Conference Report
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 537-540
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.983301
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Author-Name: Victor Konrad
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Konrad
Title: Toward a Theory of Borders in Motion
Abstract:
The premises of this exploration in border theory are that borders are
always in motion, that our theories about borders need to reflect this
axiom beyond acknowledging borders as process and changing quality, and
that these theories need to align with the "motion turn" in the social
sciences. After characterizing and visualizing borders in motion, the
paper evaluates the potential building blocks for a theory of borders in
motion. These include concepts of border construction and reconstruction,
exercise of power, equilibrium seeking, vacillating borders, spaces of
flows, and uncertainty in transition space, among others. Analogues from
basic and environmental science are postulated to explain how motion
operates to generate bordering and create borders and borderlands, as well
as account for movements surrounding borders and their alteration and
reconciliation. Three component realms of a conceptual framework are
offered: generation and realization of borders through dichotomization and
dialectic, border dynamic motions and signatures, and alteration and
reconciliation of the border in response to breaking points. The evolving
framework is articulated with reference to a case study from the Pacific
Northwest border region between Canada and the United States.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-17
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1008387
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Author-Name: Pierre Jolicoeur
Author-X-Name-First: Pierre
Author-X-Name-Last: Jolicoeur
Author-Name: Frederic Labarre
Author-X-Name-First: Frederic
Author-X-Name-Last: Labarre
Title: The Breakup of Georgia: Fragmentation or Settlement Fringe?
Abstract:
This article analyzes the status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as a
result of the August war of 2008 between Russia and Georgia. We
hypothesize that a new form of political entity is being shaped. This
political creation is a laboratory of human and political geography. It
remains a borderland, but which is neither prohibitive nor permissive; it
is a "settlement fringe," qualified by integration or abandonment. The
first part of this paper discusses "settlement fringes" to extract its
defining features in the 21-super-st century. In the second part, we
discuss the perceptions, intentions and policies of the central actors
towards their periphery, because the role of the State and of its
political elite is central in the creation of a settlement fringe. This
role tends to establish influence through the creation of supporting
infrastructure, so investment in peripheral regions by Russia and Georgia
is a critical indicator. The third section will focus on the situation on
the ground in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Cooperative practice between the
unilaterally-declared independent republics and Georgia, despite
continuing tension between the latter and Russia, is taken as an indicator
that the Caucasus is shaping up to be a borderland which is neither
prohibitive nor permissive, neither integrated nor completely subjected to
the pull of Russia, and this, in spite of Europe's relative disinterest.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 19-36
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1012730
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Author-Name: Ágnes Németh
Author-X-Name-First: Ágnes
Author-X-Name-Last: Németh
Title: Watching the Other Across the Border: Representations of Russia and Estonia on Finnish National Television
Abstract:
This paper draws on contemporary debates in cultural and border studies,
where borders and national identities, as well as their cultural
representations are understood as constructed, dynamic and diverse. A
sample of films shown on Finnish television about Finland's two
neighboring countries, Estonia and Russia, is analyzed in terms of their
represented images of the "other" and contrasted with perceptions of Finns
triggered by real-life cultural encounters such as experiences through
mobilities. The study underlines that interactions between the different
sources of perception, as well as between media representation and
perception, are far from being straightforward. On the one hand, the media
is a reflection of people's or a nation's relation to the "other;" on the
other hand, media representations are themselves influential in bringing
neighbors closer, or conversely, may reinforce existing boundaries or even
create new mental borders. Therefore, it is important to integrate these
intricate relationships into our thinking about "soft" bordering
processes.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 37-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1030187
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Author-Name: Olga Hannonen
Author-X-Name-First: Olga
Author-X-Name-Last: Hannonen
Author-Name: Seija Tuulentie
Author-X-Name-First: Seija
Author-X-Name-Last: Tuulentie
Author-Name: Kati Pitkänen
Author-X-Name-First: Kati
Author-X-Name-Last: Pitkänen
Title: Borders and Second Home Tourism: Norwegian and Russian Second Home Owners in Finnish Border Areas
Abstract:
Trans-border tourism and second home ownership are growing phenomena
around the world. Existing literature discusses the border as an
attraction, barrier or opportunity for different types of interactions
that cross it including tourism, while the relationship between borders
and second home tourism has not received much academic attention. This
study explores the role of borders in trans-border second home tourism. We
ask: what are the motives for having a second-home in a neighboring
country, and how does the border shape second home-related daily life? The
study is conducted in Finland, which has recently become an attractive
destination for foreign second home owners. The data was collected through
interviews with Russian and Norwegian second home owners in areas
bordering these countries. The results show that despite major differences
in border regimes with Russia and Norway, the state border did not appear
as a visible barrier to second home owners, but led to the formation of
invisible barriers in both cases. Different types of physical borders
formed similar imprints on the lives of second home owners. The foreign
second home owners faced cultural and language barriers but at the same
time had opportunities for recreation that did not exist in their own
country.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 53-67
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1012736
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Author-Name: Sergio Carrera
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Carrera
Author-Name: Nicholas Hernanz
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Hernanz
Title: Re-Framing Mobility and Identity Controls: The Next Generation of the EU Migration Management Toolkit
Abstract:
During the last 20 years, "Schengen Europe" has equipped itself with a
matrix of migration control tools comprising a set of exclusionary
discourses, laws, institutions, technologies and practices. The European
Commission has recently proposed a legislative package on "EU Smart
Borders" composed of an Entry-Exit System (EES) and the Registered
Travellers Programme (RTP). This article examines the ways in which the EU
Smart Borders reframe the traditional understandings and configurations of
the EU border control system and its migration management toolkit of
technologies. It is argued that smart borders take us a step further in
the re-framing of mobility and identity controls in the EU Schengen
apparatus. EU discourses backing up these measures have not been so much
centered on the insecuritization of irregular immigration. They have
instead questioned the effectiveness of the existing EU border regime, and
used a "de-securitization" and facilitation of the mobility discourse
hiding "discrimination by default." Smart borders aim at identifying the
future potential "irregular overstayer" and generalizing the management of
mobility and identity of all non-EU travelers by implementing a
person-driven approach. This approach transforms the essence of border
controls in Europe and reframes the EU travel documents policy by moving
away from a nationality-based approach of border controls towards another
based on risk and profiling.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 69-84
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1012737
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Ikechi Onah
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel Ikechi
Author-X-Name-Last: Onah
Title: The Role of Trans-Border Ethnic Groups in Intra-State and Inter-State Conflict in Africa
Abstract:
Trans-border ethnic relations in Africa have led to intra-state conflicts,
including those between the state and the fraction of the trans-border
ethnic group falling within its borders, and, others between the fraction
of the trans-border ethnic group and the other ethnic groups in the state.
Trans-border ethnic relations have also led to inter-state conflict
between the state and other neighboring states that also have fractions of
the trans-border ethnic group. Making use of case studies, the paper found
that fractions of trans-border groups are driven to conflict whenever they
are deprived from meaningfully participating in the affairs of the state.
These conflicts can thus be handled only when the state system and
individual states ensure that all citizens, irrespective of ethnic
grouping, can participate effectively in the affairs of the state.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 85-95
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1012734
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Author-Name: Daniel Meier
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Meier
Title: (B)ordering South of Lebanon: Hizbullah's Identity Building Strategy
Abstract:
This paper examines the importance of the Lebanese southern borderland
area in the political strategy of Hizbullah's identity building. It
highlights how Hizbullah succeeded in its quest to become a major
political player in Lebanon by using South Lebanon. The main hypothesis is
that this borderland area has been ordered and bordered by Hizbullah to
create a common identity among the Lebanese Shi'i population based on a
Shi'i religious involvement and the "duty" of armed resistance against
Israel. To support this idea, I will rely on a theoretical framework
articulating space and identity building and will refer to concepts
provided by Middle Eastern studies. In the first part of the paper, I will
discuss the conditions of the emergence of the group of solidarity and how
it articulates to the religious Shi'i ideology. Then, I will highlight the
"lebanonization" process Hizbullah undertook at the end of the civil war
and how during the 1990s it transformed the South into a sanctuary.
Finally, I will show how Hizbullah enforced the national legitimacy of its
social, political and military actions before targeting the state
apparatus.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 97-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1012735
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Author-Name: Holger Pötzsch
Author-X-Name-First: Holger
Author-X-Name-Last: Pötzsch
Title: Art Across Borders: Dislocating Artistic and Curatorial Practices in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region
Abstract:
The present article investigates the role of artworks in processes of
bordering in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. Drawing upon a neo-formalist
framework, it firstly analyzes works that were exhibited during the
X-Border Art Biennial to identify disruptive potentials vested in the
artistic pieces' formal properties, before it, secondly, addresses
potential performance effects of these works and of the curatorial
decision to distribute exhibition space across three cities in Sweden,
Finland, and Russia. I argue for an ambivalent role of artistic and
curatorial practices that have the inherent potential to articulate
opposition and de-familiarize established frames for perception and
cognition, and at the same time inhere the capacity to reinforce regimes
of exclusion and facilitate processes of commodification and
capitalization.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 111-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1036099
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Author-Name: Christopher Kenneth Green
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Kenneth
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Title: De-bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 127-128
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Year: 2015
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Author-Name: George T. Díaz
Author-X-Name-First: George T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Díaz
Title: From the Republic of the Rio Grande: A Personal History of the Place and People
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 129-130
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Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1030763
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Author-Name: Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Laure
Author-X-Name-Last: Amilhat Szary
Title: Transnationalism, Activism, Art
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 131-132
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1031406
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Author-Name: Cathal McCall
Author-X-Name-First: Cathal
Author-X-Name-Last: McCall
Title: Divided Nations and European Integration
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 133-134
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1030764
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Author-Name: Keina Espiñeira
Author-X-Name-First: Keina
Author-X-Name-Last: Espiñeira
Title: Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain: Markets, Citizenship and Rights
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 135-136
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1032431
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Author-Name: Miguel A. Vicens-Feliberty
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vicens-Feliberty
Author-Name: Francisca Reyes
Author-X-Name-First: Francisca
Author-X-Name-Last: Reyes
Title: Female Labor Force Participation and Dependency Ratios in Border States
Abstract:
Researchers have identified some of the factors affecting female labor
force participation (FLFP) as: economic dependency, income inequality,
family structure, and fertility, among others. This paper will study the
impact of dependency ratios on female labor force participation in the US
Border States with Mexico (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California). We
use dependency ratios to measure the role of females' as economic
producers and active members of the labor force. The most important
finding was that changes in population age structure, affects the female
labor force participation rate in the Border States. By following Kelley's
approach on dependency ratios, we found that children have a negative
effect on the female labor force participation rate. The constant care and
attention required by children seems to impede females' participation in
the labor force. However, the elderly population was found to have a
positive effect on female labor force participation rate, which could
suggest that the elder's involvement in the household promotes female
economic activity.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 137-150
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1042009
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Author-Name: Stef Jansen
Author-X-Name-First: Stef
Author-X-Name-Last: Jansen
Title: Anticipation, Interpellation and Confession on the Road to the Border
Abstract:
This article explores the role of anticipation in border crossing,
foregrounding the spatiotemporal location of would-be border
crossers--carrying state-issued documents--in relation to sovereignty and
mobility regulation. Working from two contrasting episodes of people
approaching inter-state borders it explores the analytical potential of
two concepts developed to theorize contemporary social
configurations--interpellation and confession. The article argues that
these concepts can be useful tools for empirical analyses of
border-crossing if deployed in a limited, precise, and pragmatic-material
manner that avoids the assumptions of circularity and affective investment
that their use often entails.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 151-162
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1036302
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Author-Name: Anthony Jesuale
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: Jesuale
Author-Name: David K. Jesuit
Author-X-Name-First: David K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jesuit
Author-Name: Ian Roberge
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberge
Title: Multilevel Governance in North America: The Case of the Detroit River International Crossing
Abstract:
Although the notion of multilevel governance stems from research on the
process of European integration, in recent years, scholars have applied
this notion to a variety of places and contexts, diminishing the
theoretical utility of the concept. In order to address recent criticisms,
this article lends support to a recently revised conception of multilevel
governance and explores the recent case of the Detroit River International
Crossing, and the efforts to build a new bridge between Detroit and
Windsor, Ontario. As part of this confirmatory case study, this article
includes a close examination of the coordinated lobbying campaign that
sought to defeat a ballot proposal in the state of Michigan (Proposition
6) that could have blocked the initiative. It will be shown that this case
exhibits multilevel policy coordination across an international border and
at various levels of government in both Canada and the United States.
Moreover, public and private policy actors both played a substantial role,
indicating that "Type II" best characterizes the mode of multilevel
governance. In addition, this case also demonstrates the crucial role that
effective public management plays in ensuring the success of these complex
modes of policy formulation and implementation. Finally, the paper
concludes with speculation about whether these types of multilevel
governance arrangements promote or inhibit democratic accountability.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 163-174
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1036098
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Author-Name: Randy William Widdis
Author-X-Name-First: Randy William
Author-X-Name-Last: Widdis
Title: Looking Through the Mirror: A Historical Geographical View of the Canadian-American Borderlands
Abstract:
Canada's collective biography since 1784 has had one consistent theme
addressed in each of its chapters, and that is its relationship with the
United States. The country has been profoundly affected by this
connection, and any attempt to understand the development of Canada and
its constituent regions must recognize this factor. This paper has four
goals: to reflect briefly on the relative importance of the border in
Canadian and American society; to consider the relative importance of the
transnational perspective and the borderlands concept in light of the bias
shown in both countries towards nationalist interpretations of history; to
address some of the conceptual, theoretical, and data challenges that
confront those who attempt to study the evolution of the Canadian-American
borderlands; and to argue briefly that those who deliberate on the future
public policy implications of political, economic and security
developments currently affecting the Canada-United States border and,
consequently, Canadian-American relations, need to situate these issues
and relations in historical and geographical context in order to gain
necessary perspective and avoid making statements and policies that
promote resentful cultural divisions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 175-188
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1045921
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Author-Name: Dhananjay Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Dhananjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Title: Interrogating Linkages Between Borders, Regions, and Border Studies
Abstract:
The paper is an attempt to understand the impact of regions on border
studies. It has been argued that even in this era of globalization borders
exist but the conceptual understandings of borders are region specific. In
an integrated region, the meaning of the border is different and border
studies are more interdisciplinary in their approach. Whereas in regions
where regional integration is still in its nascent stage, borders are
regarded as dividing lines between two states and studies related to
borders commonly linked with security studies; barring the development of
a multidisciplinary approach towards the subject. In this paper, examples
from Europe and South Asia are taken to substantiate the main arguments.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 189-201
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1042010
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Author-Name: Jorge Ibarra Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge
Author-X-Name-Last: Ibarra Salazar
Author-Name: Lida Sotres Cervantes
Author-X-Name-First: Lida
Author-X-Name-Last: Sotres Cervantes
Title: Property Tax Collection of Sonora Municipalities: Does Border Location Make any Difference?
Abstract:
Article 115 of the Mexican Constitution was modified to grant Mexican
municipalities prerogatives in order to improve their financial position
through own-source revenue collection. This reform made it possible for
the municipalities in the same state to face a different institutional
fiscal framework without contradicting the corresponding legal framework.
This paper relates the institutional framework and the municipal
geographic location to property tax collection. Mexican northern border
municipalities have experienced higher economic and demographic growth
compared with non-border municipalities. This has resulted in a higher
demand for public services and infrastructure. In the face of this
pressure, and given that they are allowed to modify their institutional
framework, the central hypothesis in this article is to test whether the
border effect helps to explain the differences in property tax revenue
across municipalities, and if that effect results in higher property tax
collection. These hypotheses are analyzed for the municipalities of the
Mexican state of Sonora. We estimate a number of econometric
specifications using a panel of annual data (2000-2005) for the 72
municipalities of Sonora. We find evidence that both institutional
differences, and the identification of the northern border municipalities
of Sonora help to explain variations in revenue from property tax.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 203-225
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1046471
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Author-Name: Alana Saulnier
Author-X-Name-First: Alana
Author-X-Name-Last: Saulnier
Title: Racialized Borders: Hypothesizing the Diasporic Implications of Discriminatory Surveillance at Canadian Borders
Abstract:
Surveillance systems are an element of everyday life in Canada,
implemented through a variety of strategies for a multitude of reasons.
Regardless of differences in orientation and purpose, surveillance systems
wield considerable influence over individuals and groups. Given this
influence, surveillance studies are an important area of sociological
inquiry that have garnered substantial theoretical development. However,
relatively little theorizing has approached experiences with surveillance
from a diasporic perspective. In order to support such inquiries, a
theoretical model is constructed that examines experiences during Canadian
border crossing in relation to race, invasive surveillance practices, and
diaspora development. Based on the model presented, I maintain that
perceptions of treatment during border crossing experiences are a means by
which individuals structurally position themselves based on identity
characteristics such as race and religious orientation within the broader
cultural identity. Specifically, in the post 9/11 era of intensifying
border surveillance, persons of particular racial heritage have been
targeted by surveillance efforts at the Canadian border and this
differential treatment is more likely to produce problematic diasporas.
Negative experiences with actual or perceived omnipresent and oppressive
surveillance systems may foster the development of problematic diasporas
by accentuating difference. The model draws together existing theoretical
frameworks to call attention to central components associated with the
application of discriminatory surveillance systems and provides a
foundation for future research. This area of inquiry is particularly
relevant given the changing face of Canadian immigration and, as such, the
Canadian population as a whole.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 227-245
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1045922
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Author-Name: Karen Ross
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Ross
Author-Name: Na'amah Razon
Author-X-Name-First: Na'amah
Author-X-Name-Last: Razon
Title: Interrogating Boundaries and Acknowledging Fluidity: Shifting Identity Markers in Palestine/Israel
Abstract:
In this article we problematize the taken-for-granted nature of the
dichotomy between Palestinian and Israeli, or Arab and Jew by illustrating
how these identity categories are referenced and navigated by Israelis and
Palestinians (Arabs and Jews) in their daily life. Using examples from our
observations and conversations with individuals in the region, we argue
that while the categories of Jewish/Arab and Israel/Palestine serve as
dichotomous organizing frameworks, the lived experiences of individuals
reveal complexity, variability, and tensions in how these categories are
navigated, negotiated, and inhabited. Rather than clear and natural
categories, by attending to the specificity of how these categories are
discussed and used in everyday life we highlight a middle ground
questioning the firmness of this assumed dichotomy. We suggest that
attending to the contingent and varied nature of this dichotomy can serve
as a starting point to create more inclusive means to discuss identity in
the region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 247-262
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Laia Soto Bermant
Author-X-Name-First: Laia
Author-X-Name-Last: Soto Bermant
Title: The Myth of Resistance: Rethinking the "Informal" Economy in a Mediterranean Border Enclave
Abstract:
Against claims that, with globalization, state borders are becoming
increasingly obsolete, a growing number of scholars have called for a
return to the consideration of borders as the symbols of the power of the
state, and of the state, in turn, as the principal agent in the
configuration of territorial boundaries. The study of border regions, in
this view, should be conceived as an investigation into the ways in which
state power is enforced, resisted, contested or negotiated. With this
question in view, cross-border smuggling and other "informal" economic
activities typical of border areas are construed as movements of
resistance and subversion. This essay examines the "informal" economy that
exists across the Spanish-Moroccan border of Melilla and argues that the
state/resistance approach precludes a nuanced understanding of the complex
dynamics at play across borders, and prevents us from asking questions
about the meaning of cross-border exchanges, connections and transactions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 263-278
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1046993
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Author-Name: Cristina Giudice
Author-X-Name-First: Cristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Giudice
Title: Curating at the Edge: Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 279-280
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1048812
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Author-Name: Kolar Aparna
Author-X-Name-First: Kolar
Author-X-Name-Last: Aparna
Title: Conflicting Borders of Modern Governmentalities in the 21st Century? Criminalization of Immigration Versus Combating Human Slavery Along the U.S./Mexico Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 281-282
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1046472
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Author-Name: Akihiro Hirayama
Author-X-Name-First: Akihiro
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirayama
Title: On The Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 283-284
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1048271
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Author-Name: Karli-Jo Storm
Author-X-Name-First: Karli-Jo
Author-X-Name-Last: Storm
Title: Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 285-286
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1046473
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Author-Name: Penelope J. E. Quintana
Author-X-Name-First: Penelope J. E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Quintana
Author-Name: Paul Ganster
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ganster
Author-Name: Paula E. Stigler Granados
Author-X-Name-First: Paula E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stigler Granados
Author-Name: Gabriela Muñoz-Meléndez
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Muñoz-Meléndez
Author-Name: Margarito Quintero-Núñez
Author-X-Name-First: Margarito
Author-X-Name-Last: Quintero-Núñez
Author-Name: José Guillermo Rodríguez-Ventura
Author-X-Name-First: José Guillermo
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez-Ventura
Title: Risky Borders: Traffic Pollution and Health Effects at US--Mexican Ports of Entry
Abstract:
Delays and community traffic problems associated with US--Mexican border
ports of entry have been criticized for causing economic losses and
increasing social stressors. This paper draws attention to an overlooked
issue, the potential for adverse health effects associated with being
exposed to localized high levels of traffic pollutants on border crossers
and nearby communities at ports of entry along the US--Mexican border. The
literature on health effects of exposure to near-road traffic pollution is
incorporated into an analysis of the situation along the US--Mexican
border. This paper synthesizes the information available regarding
excessive wait times at the border and describes preliminary studies
linking these delays to elevated traffic pollution levels. We frame
exposure to traffic pollutants at US--Mexican ports of entry as an
environmental justice issue in that the burden of exposures and associated
risks of health effects is borne by nearby low income minority
communities. Mitigation strategies are explored and reduction of border
crossing wait times is identified as the most feasible action. Adverse
effects of exposure to near traffic pollution are likely applicable to
congested borders throughout the world.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 287-307
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1066697
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Author-Name: Frédéric Durand
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric
Author-X-Name-Last: Durand
Title: Theoretical Framework of the Cross-border Space Production -- The Case of the Eurometropolis Lille--Kortrijk--Tournai
Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to outline a theoretical reflection on the
production of cross-border space to capture its complexity and to analyze
its structure. A conceptual framework has been developed to understand
this issue. It reveals firstly that contextual factors are involved in the
production of cross-border space, because they influence the territorial
dynamics within it. On the other hand, two processes intervene: the
bordering highlights the paradoxical relationship between the
(geo)political and societal approaches of the border while cross-border
integration appears as the engine of the production of the cross-border
space. In order to better understand the features and functioning of the
latter process, the concept has been deconstructed, highlighting four
dimensions (structural, functional, institutional and ideational). The
last part of this paper consists of the application of the grid analysis
on the production of the cross-border space through the example of the
cross-border metropolis of Lille--Kortrijk--Tournai.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 309-328
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1066701
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Author-Name: Mariya Polner
Author-X-Name-First: Mariya
Author-X-Name-Last: Polner
Title: Customs and Illegal Trade: Old Game - New Rules
Abstract:
Globalization is an opportunity and a threat to international trade. Lower
trade barriers, tariffs and protective measures and the evolution of
technology, communication and logistics have been extremely beneficial for
many countries and their businesses, however these fruits of globalization
are also being actively used by criminals. Moreover, in a globalized world
some types of criminals have become not solely a challenge to the
authority of a particular state, but a threat to the global community as a
whole. In order to tackle this ever evolving transboundary threat, the
work of specialized agencies has proven to be insufficient. There is a
growing need for cooperation and exchange of information on all levels, as
well as a totally different operational approach. This article offers an
analysis of the phenomenon of illegal trade and the ways in which Customs
authorities deal with this global challenge. Apart from the literature
review, a critical analysis of the context in which illegal trade has
evolved as well as challenges for Customs are provided. The strategic
positioning of Customs authorities in the global policy dialogue on
illegal trade along with other recent developments such as globalization
of enforcement and burden-sharing with other actors provide for some
optimism when looking into the future of the global enforcement against
illegal trade.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 329-344
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1066702
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Author-Name: Choen Krainara
Author-X-Name-First: Choen
Author-X-Name-Last: Krainara
Author-Name: Jayant K. Routray
Author-X-Name-First: Jayant K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Routray
Title: Cross-Border Trades and Commerce between Thailand and Neighboring Countries: Policy Implications for Establishing Special Border Economic Zones
Abstract:
Regional economic integration leads to closer interdependence within the
Greater Mekong sub-region (GMS) especially for trade and commerce.
Contributing factors to cross-border trade expansion between Thailand and
four neighboring countries, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia and Myanmar (CLMM)
have been studied, as well as an analysis of its pattern and trend
utilizing time series data from1996--2012. This study found a rapid
increase of local and regional cross-border trade, cross-border shopping
and mobility of people. Cross-border traded goods are mainly produced in
Bangkok and its vicinity and the eastern region of Thailand. Thai border
cities currently play major roles as distribution centers; while
industrial development along Thai border regions has not progressed enough
to capture the full potential of this trade. The development of emerging
border economic zones (BEZs) could be a means as well as a strategy not
only to minimize interregional and intra-regional disparities within
Thailand but also to foster integrated borderland development with less
developed countries surrounding Thailand. Therefore, this study aimed to
identify prospective locations for joint border economic zones across
Thailand to suggest an enabling policy in realizing BEZs.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 345-363
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068209
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Author-Name: Thomas Cantens
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Cantens
Author-Name: Robert Ireland
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Ireland
Author-Name: Gaël Raballand
Author-X-Name-First: Gaël
Author-X-Name-Last: Raballand
Title: Introduction: Borders, Informality, International Trade and Customs
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 365-380
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068207
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Author-Name: Nancy Benjamin
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Benjamin
Author-Name: Stephen Golub
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Golub
Author-Name: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye
Author-X-Name-First: Ahmadou Aly
Author-X-Name-Last: Mbaye
Title: Informality, Trade Policies and Smuggling in West Africa
Abstract:
In West Africa, recorded intra-regional trade is small but informal
cross-border trade (ICBT) is pervasive, despite regional integration
schemes intended to promote official trade. We argue that ICBT must be
understood in light of two features of West African national boundaries:
divergent economic policies between neighboring countries and the ease
with which informal operators can ship goods across borders. We focus on
two ICBT clusters: Senegal--The Gambia and Nigeria--Benin--Togo. Nigeria
and Senegal have protected their domestic industries with high import
barriers, whereas Benin, Togo and The Gambia have maintained lower import
taxation. These differential trade policies, together with high mobility
of goods and people across borders, lead to widespread smuggling, with
goods imported legally in low-tax countries and re-exported unofficially
to countries with higher import duties.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 381-394
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068203
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Author-Name: Sylvie Ayimpam
Author-X-Name-First: Sylvie
Author-X-Name-Last: Ayimpam
Title: Informal Trade, Cross Border Networks and Contraband of Asian Textiles from Brazzaville to Kinshasa
Abstract:
A river port organizes trafficking between two border cities, Brazzaville
and Kinshasa, situated on either side of the Congo River in Central
Africa. In a span of some 10 years, it has become a notorious center of
trafficking in which a vast system of small-scale contraband—known
to all, but both visible and hidden—has been organized for the
import of Asian printed textiles to Kinshasa via Brazzaville. Through an
analysis of fraudulent practices in a river port supervised by various
state services supposedly responsible for enforcing the law, this paper
looks at how the actors working or circulating in the border post
establish together the rules for the illegal passage of goods.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 395-403
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068204
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Author-Name: Peter D. Little
Author-X-Name-First: Peter D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Little
Author-Name: Waktole Tiki
Author-X-Name-First: Waktole
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiki
Author-Name: Dejene Negassa Debsu
Author-X-Name-First: Dejene Negassa
Author-X-Name-Last: Debsu
Title: Formal or Informal, Legal or Illegal: The Ambiguous Nature of Cross-border Livestock Trade in the Horn of Africa
Abstract:
In this article, we address cross-border trade from the perspectives of
state institutions and their agents, on the one hand, and private
merchants and pastoralists, on the other. It will be shown that at times
their agendas strongly conflict, but in other situations workable
accommodations and policy interpretations are found even while
acknowledging the illegality of the actions. Because of the extensive
border zones in the Horn with few custom posts and banking facilities, the
state often has no recourse but to turn a “blind eye” to
cross-border trade. Throughout the paper, it is shown how vastly different
border policies and international relationships among neighboring
countries (i.e. Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia) in the region challenge
generalizations about informality and cross-border trade. In the
conclusion we assess recent attempts by government authorities to coerce
the trade into formal channels, but with minimal success.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 405-421
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068206
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Author-Name: Gordon Mathews
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: Mathews
Title: Taking Copies from China Past Customs: Routines, Risks, and the Possibility of Catastrophe
Abstract:
This paper seeks to add to our understanding of “low-end
globalization” by exploring the processes through which copy goods
are transported from China to various African countries. It begins by
discussing low-end globalization and high-end globalization, different
forms of globalization involving different forms of regulation and
morality. It then considers copies, knock-offs, and contraband and their
distinctions, and discusses African logistics agents in south China, and
their major concerns in their work. It then examines the specific issue of
how to get copies past customs in China. It then explores corruption,
particularly in Kenya and Nigeria, and how this serves as an ongoing
burden as well as aid for traders and logistics agents. Finally, it
returns to the issue of copies—within the context of low-end
globalization, copies may represent something beneficial to many of those
who consume them, as a cheaper alternative to the goods of Global-North
luxury that they cannot afford.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 423-435
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068210
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Author-Name: Chang-Ryung Han
Author-X-Name-First: Chang-Ryung
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Author-Name: Hans Nelen
Author-X-Name-First: Hans
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelen
Author-Name: Yeonho Kang
Author-X-Name-First: Yeonho
Author-X-Name-Last: Kang
Title: A Case Study on Shuttle Trade between Korea and China
Abstract:
Informal trade exists in almost all countries and thrives in some regions.
As many countries suffer from fiscal deficits, their governments seek
hidden revenue sources. Informal cross-border trade that is non-compliant
with regulatory revenue requirements such as the payment of customs duties
is one source that is currently being targeted. This study, which employs
case study methodology, examines shuttle trade between Korea and China
from the perspective of the Korea Customs Service (KCS). While examining
the connotation of informal trade, drawing on legality and tolerance, this
study characterizes casual shuttle trade in Korea as
illegal-but-tolerable. The study, drawing on Killias's theory of breaches,
demonstrates that the shuttle trade in Korea emerged due to a combination
of factors, namely trade quotas rates and the emergence of ferry lines
between Korea and China, and has grown as a result of both the economic
downturn and an increase in the demand for express delivery service
between Korea and China. This study illustrates how the KCS has
criminalized shuttle trade as a result of tax evasion, health concerns,
and protection of Korean industries.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 437-451
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068205
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Author-Name: Luzma Fabiola Nava
Author-X-Name-First: Luzma Fabiola
Author-X-Name-Last: Nava
Title: Water without Borders?: Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 453-454
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1067897
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Author-Name: Miika Tervonen
Author-X-Name-First: Miika
Author-X-Name-Last: Tervonen
Title: Foreigners, Refugees or Minorities? Rethinking People in the Context of Border Controls and Visas
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 455-456
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1067898
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Author-Name: Dhananjay Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Dhananjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Title: Sikhs Across Borders: Transnational Practices of European Sikhs
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 457-458
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1067826
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Author-Name: Maria Lähteenmäki
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Lähteenmäki
Title: Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region: Norden Beyond Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 459-460
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2014.982986
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Author-Name: Harlan Koff
Author-X-Name-First: Harlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Koff
Title: Survival Strategy, Victimless Crime or Challenge to Nation-states? Exploring Informality in Cross-Border Regions
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 461-467
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1165134
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Author-Name: Harlan Koff
Author-X-Name-First: Harlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Koff
Title: Informal Economies in European and American Cross-border Regions
Abstract:
<bold>ABSTRACT</bold>Informality is often linked to
borderlands in both academic scholarship and political debates. On one
hand, border regions are known for the flow of goods, services and labor
and, of course, borders represent state attempts to control or regulate
these flows. At the same time, scholars of border politics often discuss
the weakness of state administrations in border regions where authorities
are far from central governments. Despite the clear relevance of informal
sectors for borderlands studies, there is a dearth of analysis of this
topic in border areas, especially in comparative terms. This article
presents a comparative cross-regional study of informality in European
(the Eurométropole and Bari, Italy--Durres, Albania) and continental
American (San-Diego, USA--Tijuana, Mexico and Cúcuta, Colombia--San
Crístobal, Venezuela) cases. It responds to the following research
questions: How can we compare informality in cross-border regions? How
does informality relate to illegality in these regions? How can regional
organizations respond to the social impacts of informality?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 469-487
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1165133
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Author-Name: Travis Du Bry
Author-X-Name-First: Travis
Author-X-Name-Last: Du Bry
Title: Agribusiness and Informality in Border Regions in Europe and North America: Avenues of Integration or Roads to Exploitation?
Abstract:
Agribusiness is a globalized industry typified by capital-intensive,
large-scale production for domestic and foreign markets. The employment of
both migrant and immigrant laborers, and the informality that surrounds
use of these laborers, are important components to such production. This
paper examines the adaptation to and negotiation of farm laborers in
informal markets in conjunction with the socioeconomic development of
rural communities in border regions. I present ethnographic research from
two important border production zones: the Coachella Valley of Southern
California in the United States, and the Campo de Dalías in
Almería Province, Andalucía, Spain. Through comparison of these
cases, I explore two interrelated aspects of informality in the
agribusiness industry: obtaining work and finding a place to live.
Establishing and maintaining social networks are key to overcoming social
consequences that arise out of agribusiness practices, but their
resolution differ in the Coachella Valley and Campo de Dalías. I
conclude by discussing the implications of the comparison and possible
avenues for further research.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 489-504
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1165132
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Author-Name: Daniel M. Sabet
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Sabet
Title: Informality, Illegality, and Criminality in Mexico's Border Communities
Abstract:
Intellectual property rights groups and formal industry associations have
long argued that the avoidance of taxes and regulations and the increase
in the sale of counterfeit, contraband, pirated, and stolen goods in
countries like Mexico contribute to a climate of illegality that
incentivizes crime and benefits organized crime. Such informality could
play a contributing factor to explain the rise and persistence of violence
in Mexico. This concern is particularly relevant in border regions where
organized crime controls illicit transnational flows and where many
counterfeit and contraband goods cross national boundaries. This paper
asks to what extent the informal sector facilitates illegality and
criminality more broadly and explores three potential hypotheses: (1)
organized crime might find a business opportunity in mitigating the
opportunity costs to operating outside the formal economy; (2)
intermediaries who manage the state's contradictory strategy of
enforcement and tolerance might exploit their structural positions for
private gains; and (3) criminals and organized crime might benefit from a
climate of illegality. Through an exploration of the informal market for
used cars illegally imported from the U.S. and the pirated and
counterfeited goods business in Mexico's northern border communities, I
find only limited support for the first hypothesis but considerable
evidence for the second and third.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 505-517
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1101704
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Author-Name: Marcela Ceballos Medina
Author-X-Name-First: Marcela Ceballos
Author-X-Name-Last: Medina
Author-Name: Gerardo Ardila Calderón
Author-X-Name-First: Gerardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ardila Calderón
Title: The Colombia--Ecuador Border Region: Between Informal Dynamics and Illegal Practices
Abstract:
This paper examines two different phenomena in the Amazonian border
region, taking into account the analytical framework of international
relations to understand the way in which States face them: (1) the
informal dynamics of everyday life that have been part of the State
formation process, and (2) illegal practices. We argue that they are
different but not independent processes. First, informal sectors are part
of the “political economy of war,” due to the incipient
consolidation of the State, linked to historical isolation and the strong
influence of the internal armed conflict in Colombia’s border
region and its transnational dynamics in Ecuador. Legal activities often
finance illegal activities of non-state armed actors and depend on it.
Second, public policies in the region are based on a national or regional
security point of view without articulating with regional integration
policies. Finally, States act individually in the Andean region with no
policies of cooperation at all. This lack of articulation has had a
negative impact on human security. States’ responses to illegal
activities have failed, leading to a capturing of the political system.
Nonetheless, guerrilla and Colombian government peace talks have opened a
new path to think differently on how to consolidate the State control and
to build social linkages based on regional integration, social inclusion
and consolidation of democratic rule.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 519-535
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1179208
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Author-Name: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Changwe
Author-X-Name-Last: Nshimbi
Title: Networks of Cross-border Non-State Actors: The Role of Social Capital in Regional Integration
Abstract:
This paper examines the contribution of networks of cross-border
grassroots non-State actors to regional integration. It uses three
assumptions to determine whether sub-regional schemes augment regional
integration: (a) networks of grassroots non-State actors connect
communities that share common backgrounds, histories and cultures; (b)
interactions in the networks generate a trust that stabilizes them and
contributes to network efficiency; and (c) where these networks straddle
State boundaries, they integrate the economies that host the communities
of actors in the networks and thus enhance integration. The paper achieves
its objective by illustrating these assumptions in the context of
sub-regional integration in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. A thorough
review of the literature on regional and sub-regional integration,
borderland studies, etc. is conducted along with the use of social capital
and historical, socioeconomic and political accounts to illustrate the
role of informal networks in integration. Because networks, norms and
trust dominate conceptual discussion of social capital (Schuller, T., S.
Baron, and J. Field. 2000. Social capital: A review and critique. In
Social capital: Critical perspectives, eds. S. Baron, J. Field, and T.
Schuller, 1--38. Oxford: Oxford University Press.), the paper
conceptualizes the terms in the context of social capital. Participant
observations, face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions
conducted during extensive fieldwork between September 2013 and November
2014 at selected border posts, in the major border towns of the adjacent
provinces of the ZMM-GT, in markets and villages in the contiguous border
areas of the growth triangle also provide the primary data employed in the
analysis. Sub-regional initiatives contribute to development, as does
macro-regionalism. Unlike Southeast Asians, people in southern Africa are
primarily driven by the need for survival and operate less on ethnic
lines. However, a clear demonstration of social capital and cohesion is
evident here. Leaders in Africa should encourage cross-border ethnic and
kinship ties rather than abuse ethnicity for political gain.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 537-560
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1165131
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Author-Name: Tony Craig
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Craig
Title: Ireland's Violent Frontier: The Border and Anglo-Irish Relations During the Troubles
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 561-562
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1101706
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Author-Name: Margit Fauser
Author-X-Name-First: Margit
Author-X-Name-Last: Fauser
Author-Name: Anne Friedrichs
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrichs
Author-Name: Levke Harders
Author-X-Name-First: Levke
Author-X-Name-Last: Harders
Title: Migrations and Borders: Practices and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Abstract:
Current media images of a “fortress Europe” suggest that migrations and borders are closely connected. This special issue brings together scholars from history, sociology and anthropology to explore cross-border mobility and migration during the formation, development, and transformation of the modern (nation-)state explicating the conflictive and fluctuating character of borders. The historical perspective demonstrates that such bordering processes are not new. However, they have developed new dynamics in different historical phases, from the formation of the modern (nation-)state in the nineteenth century to the creation of the European Union during the second half of the twentieth. This introduction explains the dynamic relationships between borders and migratory movements in Europe from the nineteenth century to the present by approaching them from four different, overlapping angles, which the articles analyze in more detail: (1) the multiple actors involved, (2) scales and places of borders and their crossings, (3) the instruments and techniques employed, and (4) the significance of social categories. Focusing on the historical, local specificity of the complex relations between migration and boundaries will help denaturalize the concept of the border as well as further reflection on the shifting definitions of migration and belonging.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 483-488
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1510334
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Author-Name: Fırat Genç
Author-X-Name-First: Fırat
Author-X-Name-Last: Genç
Author-Name: Gerda Heck
Author-X-Name-First: Gerda
Author-X-Name-Last: Heck
Author-Name: Sabine Hess
Author-X-Name-First: Sabine
Author-X-Name-Last: Hess
Title: The Multilayered Migration Regime in Turkey: Contested Regionalization, Deceleration and Legal Precarization
Abstract:
Against the background of the research project on “De-and Re-stabilizations of the European Border Regime”, analyzing the recent political attempts by the EU and its member states to regain control over its borders and the movements of migration after the so-called “European refugee crisis” in 2015, this article discusses Turkey’s role and position within international migration flows and the EU-driven border regime. Reflecting on the recent history of Turkey’s migration and border politics, we argue that academic accounts, which tend to reduce Turkey’s role to a simple extension of the EU border regime, are insufficient to explain the current state of affairs in Turkey. Rather, the article sheds light on the contested and multilayered nature of the Turkish migration regime, which can be partly read as reactions to the European Union, but also as an effect of its own foreign and national policy interests. The outcome is a highly hybrid political formation causing ambiguous legal, social, and political limitations for migrants and refugees, reflected in their journeys and in social and political realities, which are discussed as exemplified in the migratory stories of two migrants.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 489-508
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1344562
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Author-Name: Bettina Bruns
Author-X-Name-First: Bettina
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruns
Title: Homogenous and Extra-territorial Border Regime? Migrations and Control Efforts Across the Eastern EU External Border
Abstract:
In light of the high amount of refugees wishing to cross the EU’s external borders into the Union, the border regime is becoming more and more standardized and, to a great extent, involves the EU neighbor states. These are confronted with a double strategy with regard to their involvement in the EU’s migration policy. On the one hand, the EU tries to guarantee its own security by setting up a tough border regime. On the other hand, the EU strives for a closer connection with its neighbors by including them more and more into its migration regulations. By having a look at Ukraine and Moldova, the paper asks what this involvement in EU policies means for the mentioned countries and focuses on their perspectives. How does their participation in EU extra-territorial migration regulation look like? What does the extra-territorialized border regime mean for those actors wishing to cross the border? For this purpose, a concept of the EU’s eastern external border regime will be developed first, including its targeted homogeneity and its partly extra-territorial functioning. By discussing the results of an ethnographic border regime analysis, the paper will present the perspectives of specific actors in third states who implement EU migration regulations on a local level by carrying out concrete EU-driven projects. Furthermore, voices from refugees and inhabitants of the border regions in third states are taken into account.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 509-526
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402194
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Author-Name: Michael Schubert
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Schubert
Title: The Creation of Illegal Migration in the German Confederation, 1815–1866
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This article puts the control, regulation and management of migration into the historical context of Germany’s nascent statehood in the 19th century. Underlying the discussion is the basic premise that regimes of illegal migration are characterized by the interrelation between migration movements and the way the state administration deals with them: “Illegal migration” crystallizes around the ideological and political principles of migration and sedentariness which exist at a given time, and those authorities and tools which are used for its administration. In the German states, migration and migrants were gradually illegalized in the first half of the 19th century and became a driving force in the formation of the German state. “Individuals without legitimation” and “homeless people” were to be tracked down, expelled and, wherever possible, accepted back by their “home states.” The search for “domestic security” and “welfare” was one of the core motivational factors for the German states, expressed in the three patterns of argumentation regarding the demarcation of borders: economy, cultural identity, and political danger. As a result, the ensuing criteria for illegalization consolidated ideas of desired and undesired populations and gave rise to a regime of illegal migration, the structure of which was essentially characterized by inter-governmental “cartel conventions” on expulsions, culminating in the Gotha Treaty in 1851. This article provides the first systematic evidence for the utilitarian mechanisms which led to the illegalization of migration and migrants during the process of state formation and analyses the related discourse on “desired persons,” “tolerated persons” and “troublesome persons.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 527-545
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402197
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Author-Name: Lutz Karl Häfner
Author-X-Name-First: Lutz Karl
Author-X-Name-Last: Häfner
Title: Engines of Social Change? Peasant Migration and the Transgression of Spatial, Legal and Cultural Divides in Late Imperial Russia
Abstract:
Prior to the First World War the polyethnic and multiconfessional Russian Empire was well known for its high scale internal peasant migration. Against the background of the popular historical master narrative that Imperial Russia was characterized by the dual culture of westernized urbanites on the one hand and “backward” villagers on the other, this article discusses how peasants overcame various spatial borders, legal boundaries, social barriers, and cultural divides not only in order to secure livelihood and to improve their lot but also to make new experiences and widen their individual horizon. Based on a wide array of sources the article shows to what extent migration changed the practices, perceptions, and attitudes of the migrants on the one hand and of society on the other. It therefore explores the interdependencies between the destination areas and the native hamlets.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 547-570
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402196
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Author-Name: Levke Harders
Author-X-Name-First: Levke
Author-X-Name-Last: Harders
Title: Belonging, Migration, and Profession in the German-Danish Border Region in the 1830s
Abstract:
Migration in the early 19th century was governed not only by the state, but also by regional and local actors. The article discusses the migration of professionals to the German-Danish border region in the first half of the 19th century. Using a case study of a migrant teacher, I will analyze how state, regional, and local actors as well as migrants themselves negotiated belonging. I apply the sociological concept of belonging to historical processes, demonstrating that in the context of legal and political debates in the early and mid-19th century, the construction of belonging was shaped along different axes, such as local membership or professional affiliation. The article emphasizes the diversity of actors in the negotiation of belonging and analyzes one migrant's perspective on it.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 571-585
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402193
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Author-Name: Anne Friedrichs
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrichs
Title: A Site of Shifting Boundaries: Fostering and Limiting Mobility in the Ruhr Valley (1860–1910)
Abstract:
In recent decades, our perception of borders has become increasingly complex: 30 years after the Schengen Agreement, EU citizens’ freedom to travel is largely taken for granted, yet contemporary debates on refugees and the external borders of the European Union suggest that borders resemble semi-permeable membranes, enabling the influx of “desired” persons while excluding “undesirable” migratory flows. However, these trends in “filtering” movements of people are hardly unique to the 21st century. This article treats the Ruhr Valley as an example of early migration to Germany and the associated rights and restrictions placed on movement there in the second half of the “long” 19th century. The author argues that limits on migration and settlement also shifted in zones of increasing mobility and migration like the Ruhr region, where they excluded Russian “Poles” in particular. However, migration control by the higher authorities was never total. The paper first shows how the actions of different groups (political authorities, entrepreneurs, migrants, and their networks) were intertwined with one another in a way that made the Ruhr region into a preferred destination for migrants within a transatlantic migration system. It then critically analyzes the hitherto little discussed expulsions and naturalization procedures as political means of population control and illuminates the importance of latent divergent interests at different levels of government. Overall, the study intends to contribute to a better understanding of the different social mechanisms on the local level that were part of migration control in the context of the nascent (nation) state.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 587-603
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1332489
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Author-Name: Margit Fauser
Author-X-Name-First: Margit
Author-X-Name-Last: Fauser
Title: The Emergence of Urban Border Spaces in Europe
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Over the past few decades, nation state borders throughout the world have been undergoing major transformations. These changes are perhaps particularly salient in the supranational space of the European Union, where new, diverse governance arrangements have emerged for the control of borders and migrations. This governance now involves national and supranational, state and non-state actors and territories beyond the external borders of the European states. At the same time, transformations are affecting the city and urban spaces where a plethora of new mechanisms of control are emerging. Cities are considered key sites for the inclusion of migrants, affording them substantial (urban) citizenship. Nevertheless, little attention is being paid to the role of cities in the exclusion and control of migrants. Through devolution from above, as well as through urban autonomy, both public and non-state actors in cities are increasingly engaged in matters such as migrants’ legal status, removal, and deportation. Thus, an account of the city in such control has to take issue with the notion that the urban scale is simply nested in, subordinate to, and bounded within the national state space. Rather, scales are constructed and produced, which includes the historically changing relationship of urban and national scales. Drawing on migration, border, and urban studies, this paper develops a theoretical approach that locates the city within contemporary border transformations, identifies several mechanisms of urban border control, and provides some empirical examples to illustrate these points. Against this backdrop, the paper suggests considering urban space as border space.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 605-622
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402195
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Author-Name: Andreas Fahrmeir
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Fahrmeir
Title: Conclusion: Historical Perspectives on Borderlands, Boundaries and Migration Control
Abstract:
This conclusion relates the articles in this special issue—which focus on European migration control regimes from the 19th century to the present—to two recent trends in the historiography of migration regulation: the impact of research on the early modern period and of global perspectives. Both can lead to a conceptualization of borderlands beyond zones surrounding a frontier, which may lead to additional research questions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 623-631
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1414625
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Author-Name: Natalia Taksami
Author-X-Name-First: Natalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Taksami
Title: Writing at Borders. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 633-634
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294500
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Author-Name: Katarzyna Stokłosa
Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Stokłosa
Title: Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 635-636
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1332490
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Author-Name: Edward Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: The line becomes a river: dispatches from the border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 637-638
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1555051
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Author-Name: Élisabeth Vallet
Author-X-Name-First: Élisabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Vallet
Author-Name: Charles-Philippe David
Author-X-Name-First: Charles-Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: David
Title: Introduction: The (Re)Building of the Wall in International Relations
Abstract: The fall of the Berlin Wall and the emergence of a new international landscape ushered in an era of globalization in which states appeared irrevocably condemned to obsolescence, a world without borders. The advent of an international system in which the state was relegated to secondary importance in international relations, coupled with the disappearance of physical borders, left little reason to expect a return of the wall. However, borders, walls and barriers, symbols that were thought to have perished with decolonization and the disappearance of the bipolar world, made a comeback in the aftermath of 9/11. The wall as object embraces a heterogeneous range of structures built with diverse motivations on a variety of borders. Meanwhile, the wall as phenomenon has proliferated over the past 10 years, encircling both democratic and authoritarian states, failed states and healthy ones. This special issue investigates both the empirical and symbolic facets of the erection of structures designed to keep away (and keep away from) the Other, from the “near abroad.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 111-119
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687211
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Author-Name: Elia Pusterla
Author-X-Name-First: Elia
Author-X-Name-Last: Pusterla
Author-Name: Francesca Piccin
Author-X-Name-First: Francesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Piccin
Title: The Loss of Sovereignty Control and the Illusion of Building Walls
Abstract: This paper addresses “walls” as a traditional tool used to establish and preserve sovereignty in different political contexts. By discussing the process of the loss of sovereignty control by states, attention is placed on the impact of phenomena, such as interdependence and integration, on the redefinition of sovereignty repositories. The main hypothesis of this paper is the appearance of an unorganized hypocrisy of sovereignty. Accordingly, states, despite their efforts put into preserving their control on sovereignty, cannot really build walls anymore.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 121-138
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687212
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Author-Name: Heather Nicol
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicol
Title: The Wall, the Fence, and the Gate: Reflexive Metaphors along the Canada–US Border
Abstract: The reading of “common legacy” has recently developed as the dominant discourse defining Canada–US relations throughout the 20th century. It supports the politically expedient perception that the “interconnected” status of the Canada–US border is a historical fact. Yet viewed historically, this is not so clear. Historical narratives tell two equally compelling stories, one of facilitation and cooperation along the Canada–US border, and the other of one of resistance to a “borderless” North America. This paper traces the story of the border from a Canadian perspective. It argues that there is a strong perceptual component and reflexivity in Canada–US relations, even those now brokered through common security arrangements. Such perceptions are linked to national border-building discourses and mobilized through popularized as well as formal geopolitical discourses: that is to say via newspapers, political cartoons as well as formal political texts and agreements. Historically such images and discourses have emphasized the differences, as well as commonalities, along the line. The result has been a significant degree of reflexivity, and this has created a somewhat unique context for North American cooperation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 139-165
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687213
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Author-Name: Fabio Mattioli
Author-X-Name-First: Fabio
Author-X-Name-Last: Mattioli
Title: Conflicting Conviviality: Ethnic Forms of Resistance to Border-making at the Bottom of the US Embassy of Skopje, Macedonia
Abstract: This article focuses on the role of ethnicity as resistance in Skopje, Macedonia. I interrogate the presence of the American embassy in Skopje as a physical manifestation of US hegemonic power in the Balkans. I show that the American embassy and the discourse that legitimize its existence constitute a form of border-making that fragments the built environment of the city. I then analyze how the US embassy's border-making discourses are reverberated in my interlocutors' words. The ethnic repertoire they resort to for describing the embassy both re-inscribe the US hegemonic power and yet displace it: I show how the process of border-making is appropriated, negotiated and resisted or displaced by the citizens of Skopje. I propose to discuss the complex relations of ethnicity presented by my informants under the rubric of “conflicting conviviality”, that is the deep sharing of a common language and sensibility although with conflicting purposes and meanings.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 185-198
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687214
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Author-Name: Said Saddiki
Author-X-Name-First: Said
Author-X-Name-Last: Saddiki
Title: The Sahara Wall: Status and Prospects
Abstract: Although, the Sahara Wall was built, at first, in a specific context and for a specific goal, today it reflects multidimensional aspects of a long-term conflict—the Western Sahara issue that still threatens the stability of the Maghreb region. The future of the Sahara Wall is closely related to the original issue itself which needs a negotiated, realistic and equitable solution due to its complex dimensions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 199-212
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687215
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Author-Name: Anne-Laure Szary
Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Laure
Author-X-Name-Last: Szary
Title: Walls and Border Art: The Politics of Art Display
Abstract: This detour through art aims at demonstrating the performative function of contemporary walls and barriers, designed to impose a geopolitical vision through landscape changes. The text assesses the link between art and borders by formulating the hypothesis that a “border art” (art on the border, art born from the border, art against the border, etc.) is emerging. It tries to understand how the closing up of a border not only reactivates cultural production on an international border, but also transforms the latter's meaning. On the US–Mexico border, for instance, the building of the security fence since 2006 seems to have been accompanied by a strong artistic upsurge. This can be nuanced by analyzing the changes in the nature of artistic production, with more mobile works, marked by a strong presence of videos and performances, as if the fixity imposed by the line requires a fluid creative answer.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 213-228
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687216
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Author-Name: Simon Dalby
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Dalby
Title: Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 241-243
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687217
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Author-Name: Simon Falke
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Falke
Title: Peace on the Fence? Israel's Security Culture and the Separation Fence to the West Bank
Abstract: This article examines the role of the separation fence as a metaphorical reflection within Israeli society. Two points of view examined are the construction of the separation fence and the historical idea of separation. Since the founding of Israel, the goal of the political maxim has been to construct internationally approved borderlines. Starting from a historical perspective and continuing to modern day, the development and establishment of various differentiation concepts, the latest in the form of a separation fence, are represented within Israeli society. The search for a boundary and security is questioned as a possible psychological and social bonding component of Israel. Different approaches to the design of the state border are subjected to the sociology of space, as understood in a short analysis by George Simmel. The construction of the separation fence is the political implementation of the Delimitation Theories. Questions regarding recognized borders, security in the country, and the determination of the Palestinian population's identity are fundamental for Israeli society. The separation fence is the physical expression of these perceptions. Fear, as a collective theme, plays an important role in this debate, and the prospect of a future boundary is a step closer to positively influencing social sense. The need for Israeli security is linked to the search for identity and cohesion. Separation is also linked to Israeli identity, an identity that functions as a basic cohesion of Israeli society. The separation fence can serve as a solution to the historic, territorial conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. However, the separation fence provides no possible solutions for global changes in the Middle East. Against the background of the American withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the regional rise of Iran the purpose and function of the separation fence is, and remains, determined solely by Israeli society.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 229-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687504
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Author-Name: Alexander Izotov
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Izotov
Title: Mental Walls and the Border: Local Identity Construction in Sortavala
Abstract: This article attempts to examine local identity formation in a border town in the Soviet and post-Soviet era. Exploring new critical geopolitical approaches and analyzing discourses, the article utilizes newspaper and archive material. The main focus is on the activity of the local political elite aiming at constructing a homogenous Soviet identity in a particular place. The article also analyzes how post-Soviet geopolitical realities, the national identity crisis and liberalized border regime have impacted these processes
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 167-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.688279
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Author-Name: Evelyn Mayer
Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer
Title: Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America. With a new afterword by the author
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 239-240
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.712906
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Author-Name: Martin Klatt
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Klatt
Title: Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 413-414
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1116460
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Author-Name: Christophe Sohn
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Sohn
Title: Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 415-416
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1165078
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Author-Name: Victor Konrad
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Konrad
Title: Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 417-419
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174609
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Author-Name: Artyom Lukin
Author-X-Name-First: Artyom
Author-X-Name-Last: Lukin
Title: Russia and East Asia: Informal and Gradual Integration
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 421-422
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174614
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Author-Name: Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Wassim
Author-X-Name-Last: Aboultaif
Title: The Leviathan Field Triggering a Maritime Border Dispute Cyprus, Israel, and Lebanon
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The discovery of the Leviathan field on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean has triggered a maritime dispute between Lebanon, Israel, and Cyprus. The aim of this paper is to construct the maritime borders based on the Law of the Seas Convention and previous rules by the International Court of Justice. Equidistant lines and the concept of equity will be applied to the method of drawing the maritime borders. In addition, theories of conflict resolution will be utilized in order to manage the natural resources between the three states.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 289-304
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195700
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Author-Name: Joan B. Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Joan B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Author-Name: James Gerber
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerber
Title: The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2010
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This paper updates the Border Human Development Index (BHDI), a quality of life index for comparing well-being in municipios [Mexican sub-state administrative units] and counties along the US-Mexico border from 1990 to 2010. The index, first published in 2004, is updated to include the 2010 census data. Empirical estimations show that the gap between the US and Mexican BHDI increased during the 2000–2010 decade. Many of the employment and income advantages of Mexican border communities have been lost due to a combination of internal and external pressures including US recessions, competition from China, US security measures that slow trade and other cross-border interactions, and drug-related violence that scares off tourists and shoppers from the US.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 275-288
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195707
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Author-Name: Pedro Figueiredo Neto
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Figueiredo
Author-X-Name-Last: Neto
Title: The Consolidation of the Angola—Zambia Border: Violence, Forced Displacement, Smugglers and Savimbi
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The Angola-Zambia borderlands remain a territory of scarce research—a scientific vacuum largely justified by the uncertain history of this region. Thus, based on fieldwork conducted along both sides of the border between Zambia and Angola, this paper aims to introduce some of the key events on the genesis of the international demarcation and its gradual consolidation. The purpose is to analyze the substance of the border, the borders—old and new—within that same territory. If in the past the border was virtually non-existent, today a myriad of not always evident mechanisms and situations compose and give meaning to this borderscape. Over time, slavery, forced labor, violence and high taxes accentuated the colonial limits by establishing a very clear demarcation between dispossession and survival. After five centuries of Portuguese rule, Angola endured one of the deadliest conflicts in recent history (1961–2002). Wartime episodes, forced displacement, border smuggling and the spectrum of Jonas Savimbi—the deceased Angolan rebel leader—enlarged the border imaginary.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 305-324
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195708
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Author-Name: Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva
Author-X-Name-First: Gutemberg de Vilhena
Author-X-Name-Last: Silva
Title: France-Brazil Cross-border Cooperation Strategies: Experiences and Perspectives on Migration and Trade
Abstract:
This article analyzes the Cross-border cooperation (CBC) strategies between France and Brazil, highlighting two main issues: migration and trade. The questions that guided the study are: (1) what are the uses of the Franco-Brazilian border by the means of CBC initiatives-actions-programs in relation to migration and trade? and (2) what are the main barriers that compromise the development of the CBC in the studied area? The methodology of the study was comprised of: (a) bibliographic research; (b) documental research; and (c) field work. The data allowed an evaluation of the experimentations and expectations provoked by the CBC since the 1990s. A series of new strategic uses of the border were observed as a result of binational meetings, cooperation proposals and, in a smaller scale, concrete actions in the last 20 years. Debates and effective actions, such as the combat of the illegal migration to French Guiana, regarding migration, and the formulation of institutional mechanisms for commercial cooperation on the Franco-Brazilian border are examples of the initial attempts of cooperation between Brazil and France within the geographical space they physically share.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 325-343
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1197788
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Author-Name: Laura Huttunen
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Huttunen
Title: Protective Barriers and Entrapping Walls: Perceptions of Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Bosnian Diaspora
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This article analyzes the violently changing border regime in the ex-Yugoslavian territories, particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the 1990s from the point of view of those who lived through the period of transformation. The focus is on the ways in which local people conceived of the borders during this period and how they describe them in textual form in life-stories and poetry. The impact of both violence and (forced) mobility on imaginaries of borders is analyzed in order to understand how the violent transformation of the border regime affects individuals’ relationship to the political landscape. The central argument is that such periods of change allow us to see the temporalities and process-like character of borders more clearly. In this particular case the perception of borders changes from non-visible to leaky and insecure and finally to entrapping walls between life and death. Border crossing is seen as an act that changes the status of the individual; simultaneously the violent changes in the border regime change the identities of places in dramatic ways. The case highlights the importance of analyzing the effects of rapid political changes to the bordering processes and to the ways in which variously positioned putative border crossers encounter them.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 345-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1202775
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Author-Name: Giorgia Bressan
Author-X-Name-First: Giorgia
Author-X-Name-Last: Bressan
Title: Power, Mobility and the Economic Vulnerability of Borderlands
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The political boundary between Italy and Yugoslavia, superimposed after the Second World War, extended through lands with a common historical, cultural and economic trajectory. The boundary constituted an ideological divide but the pre-existence of deeply entrenched relations promoted, from the outset, the establishment of a local permeable border. This article explores how, in the context of freedom of movement, borderland residents experience the convenience of border proximity and—by expressing their preference for the foreign market—create major drawbacks for their own domestic economy. Specifically, the low excise duty in Slovenia incentivizes Italian consumers to refuel abroad. How does an open border impact on the dynamics of the fuel market in the high-tax country? Applying the Global Production Network analytical framework, I assess how the attractiveness of the foreign fuel market poses specific challenges both to Italian institutions and economic actors who have vested interests in the local economy. This analysis also reveals how daily international shopping practices are a mass behavior difficult to eliminate. The explicit inclusion of non-corporate actors into the study of the fuel production network offers an important contribution to current understandings of international market outcomes. In fact, the border management policy does not restrict residents’ mobility and the redistribution of competencies and functions amidst multiple institutional actors make it difficult to develop a policy able to defend borderland needs.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 361-377
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222871
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Author-Name: Filippo Celata
Author-X-Name-First: Filippo
Author-X-Name-Last: Celata
Author-Name: Raffaella Coletti
Author-X-Name-First: Raffaella
Author-X-Name-Last: Coletti
Author-Name: Andrea Stocchiero
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Stocchiero
Title: Neighborhood Policy, Cross-border Cooperation and the Re-bordering of the Italy–Tunisia Frontier
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This article focuses on the contents and outcomes of the cross-border cooperation program between Italy and Tunisia in light of a review of the limits of the European Neighborhood Policy and of its impact on the construction of the EU external frontiers. The transfer of the CBC policy model to this and similar cases, it is argued, produces ambivalent results due to various asymmetries and the lack of a proper multi-level governance of trans-border relations. Some suggestions are proposed about how a renewed approach may increase the political relevance of the program, support the democratic transition in Tunisia and contribute to a rethinking of Euro-Mediterranean policies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 379-393
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222872
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Author-Name: Jacob C. Jurss
Author-X-Name-First: Jacob C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jurss
Title: Borders of Authority: Power in the Canadian Borderlands at the 1844 Jesuit-Anishinaabeg Debate
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In 1844 a debate took place between a venerated Anishinaabeg orator and an ambitious Jesuit priest over who possessed the authority to harvest timber from Walpole Island. Though scholars have taken notice of this unique debate recorded in the Letters from the New Canada Missions the circumstances and backgrounds of the central orators, Anishinaabeg ogimaa Oshawana and Jesuit priest Father Pierre Chazelle, has not been analyzed. The debate centered on how each society viewed the natural world and the natural resources necessary for survival. The power struggle represented by each man in the Canadian borderlands highlighted the differences between European Jesuit understanding and First Nation Anishinaabeg understanding of their place and relationship to the greater world. How each society understood power and how to wield said power was illuminated in the contested discussion between the two men. Thus the debate, while containing strong themes of religious and spirituality, has much to say about the larger goal of Euro-Canadians to “civilize” First Nation peoples while providing an equally compelling argument made by Oshawana for cultural pluralism and a defense of First Nation sovereignty.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 395-411
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222877
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Author-Name: Martin Deleixhe
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Deleixhe
Author-Name: Magdalena Dembinska
Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena
Author-X-Name-Last: Dembinska
Author-Name: Julien Danero Iglesias
Author-X-Name-First: Julien
Author-X-Name-Last: Danero Iglesias
Title: Introduction to the Special Issue: Securitized Borderlands
Abstract:
Borders have recently attracted a lot of academic scrutiny. Two very distinct types of literature have attempted to capture the current evolution of borders. The first one, leaning more toward the field of security studies, puts the emphasis on the rampant securitization, the coercive dimension of borders, and their divisive consequences. The second, looks at the rich environment surrounding borders, where boundaries are seen as the meeting point of a variety of cultures and communities. Those social spaces, known as borderlands, are the cradle of hybrid identities and transnational networks that contest the State’s claim to ultimate sovereignty over its territory. Against this backdrop, the ambition of this special issue lies in its aim to fill theoretically and empirically this gap by looking at securitized borderlands. This introductory article delineates the contours of and puts together the main findings of both security studies on borders and borderlands studies. It announces the objectives of the subsequent articles, which together look into the interaction between the securitized borders and the social spaces they both obstruct and dynamize. In spite of and within this peculiarly adverse environment of “securitized borderlands,” cross border societies remain in existence, resist, comply, and adjust.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 639-647
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1445547
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Author-Name: Martin Deleixhe
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Deleixhe
Title: Biopolitical Sovereignty and Borderlands
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Lately, it has been suggested in several corners of the “border studies” that Giorgio Agamben’s influential description of a new form of sovereignty—what one might call a biopolitical sovereignty—would provide an apt conceptual framework to tackle the ever-evolving nature of contemporary borders. My contention however is that border and borderland studies should approach Agamben’s conceptual framework carefully. For his depiction of a biopolitical sovereignty suffers from a conceptual flaw and could therefore prove misleading as a critical tool of enquiry to apply to borders. The forced pairing of Michel Foucault’s biopolitics and Carl Schmitt’s state of exception is, I will argue, unsustainable. I will first make that case at a strictly conceptual level. I will then substantiate my claim that Foucault’s and Schmitt’s views on sovereignty have different political implications by presenting two distinct conceptual developments on borders based on their respective work. I’ll show that while Foucauldian political sociology is mostly concerned with a diffuse network of control apparatus that substitute themselves to the physical border, neo-Schmittians rather turn their attention towards coercive materializations of the border. In conclusion, I will contend that, while control apparatus currently operates alongside militarized borders since the beginning of the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe, it is nonetheless wrong to assume that those two border regimes are mutually reinforcing.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 649-664
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1414623
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Author-Name: Alexandra Liebich
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Liebich
Title: The “Boomerang Effect” of Kin-state Activism: Cross-border Ties and the Securitization of Kin Minorities
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The kin-state phenomenon is often understood as unifying and inclusive: states reach out beyond their borders to engage with co-ethnics living abroad, thus maintaining historic “national” ties, and fostering connections and contacts. But kin-state activism may also be dangerous and conflictual, when a kin-state's transborder projects anger neighboring governments, leading to the securitization of kin minorities and the destabilizing of inter-ethnic and regional relations. Moreover, certain types of kin-state behavior may divide the very communities that it seeks to unite. In post-communist East-Central Europe, Hungary and Russia have been pursuing kin-state activism since the early 1990s, using a range of tools and strategies. In recent years, the actions of both kin-states have had a “boomerang effect,” producing unexpected outcomes for kin minorities and for the kin-state itself. Drawing on evidence from the two cases, this paper explores how kin-state activism can backfire and trigger a securitization of cross-border relations.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 665-684
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402202
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Author-Name: Ramona Coman
Author-X-Name-First: Ramona
Author-X-Name-Last: Coman
Title: Values and Power Conflicts in Framing Borders and Borderlands: The 2013 Reform of EU Schengen Governance
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In recent years, the preservation of the Schengen as a borderland has generated heightened tensions between domestic and European actors. Drawing on a qualitative analysis, this article illustrates how EU institutional actors frame the EU's internal and external borders and how said frames have shaped the EU's Schengen governance. To do so, it scrutinizes the debates that took place from 2011 to 2016 on the reintroduction of internal border controls. The analysis allows us to observe the salience of four frames: the values frame, the conflict frame, the market frame, and the securitization frame. To explain the dynamics of these frames, the article draws on the theoretical arguments of the new intergovernmentalism. The analysis concludes that the framing of borders in European debates is conditioned by the institutional setting of the EU and reflects the spread of the new intergovernmentalism in this policy area.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 685-698
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402201
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Author-Name: Sharon Weinblum
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Weinblum
Title: Conflicting Imaginaries of the Border: The Construction of African Asylum Seekers in the Israeli Political Discourse
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Between 2005 and 2013, around 50,000 migrants from Sudan and Eritrea crossed the Egyptian border to seek refuge in Israel. While some of them were originally perceived as survivors of genocide entitled to claim asylum, border crossing has quickly become an object of concern and technologies obstructing it have been deployed (including a 250 kilometer-long fence, detention centers, and criminalization of unauthorized border crossing). Against this backdrop, this article analyzes the competing political narratives that have underpinned these policies of containment and bordering towards African migrants and asylum seekers. Based on the study of political debates, political speeches, and several months of fieldwork, it investigates the discursive construction of these newcomers’ entry into the territory, focusing on the role of the border in this construction. The article shows that the dominant political narrative has resorted to securitizing discursive strategies involving the notions of threat, flood, and crime which have enabled the formulation of exclusionary policies framed as tools of border and boundaries control and protection. The analysis further reveals that a more marginal counter-narrative has attempted to challenge the dominant securitizing strategies but has failed to articulate an effective alternative discourse.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 699-715
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1436001
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Author-Name: Léa Lemaire
Author-X-Name-First: Léa
Author-X-Name-Last: Lemaire
Title: The European Dispositif of Border Control in Malta. Migrants’ Experiences of a Securitized Borderland
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With its accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004, Malta became a part of a European dispositif of border control. Maltese policy-makers are now charged with preventing migrants from reaching the EU mainland. Malta has thus implemented a mandatory detention policy towards people rescued at sea. When migrants arrive on the island, they are detained in military barracks for a period of up to 18 months. Subsequently, they are released from detention. Some settle in Malta, while others manage to leave the island. This paper combines critical security studies with borderlands studies to examine the construction and reinforcement of a border through social practices and government apparatuses. It explores migrants’ own experiences of what is conceptualized as a securitized borderland. The securitized borderland concept, which simultaneously refers to a space of control, a zone of transit and a place of living, is ambivalent enough to capture the ambiguous situation of migrants in Malta. Empirical data is based on fieldwork carried out in Malta and Brussels, which included observations and interactions with migrants, and interviews with national and European policy-makers, as well as with representatives from international and non-governmental organizations. Finally, this paper offers an ethnography of the social construction of an island-border which epitomizes the concept of a securitized borderland.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 717-732
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1457973
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Author-Name: Julien Danero Iglesias
Author-X-Name-First: Julien
Author-X-Name-Last: Danero Iglesias
Title: Behind Closed Doors: Discourses and Strategies in the European Securitized Borderlands in Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine
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Since the enlargements of 2004 and 2007 European integration has brought about major changes for the citizens of Central and Eastern Europe, such as a process of re-bordering. The accession of countries in the region to the EU, and for some to the Schengen Area, has strengthened borders where there was previously fluidity. This is the starting point of a research on the populations located on the non-EU side of the EU border. The paper takes as a case study Romanian populations living in border regions in Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine to investigate local discourses of the border and strategies put forward to overcome what is often perceived as an artificial obstacle. Collected through an ethnography of “ordinary citizens,” the data demonstrate how the securitization of the EU border has led to the development of instrumental identities and practices of those living on the “wrong” side of the EU borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 733-748
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1414624
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Author-Name: Sarah Sajn
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Sajn
Title: Securitizing a European Borderland: The Bordering Effects of Memory Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Historically located at the crossroads of multiple political entities, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been constructed as a European borderland. Since the war of the 1990s, its ethnic and religious diversity has been framed as a security threat. European institutions and Member States are politically, economically and military involved in the state-building and reconciliation processes, set as part of BiH’s path towards the Union. In 2014, Sarajevo was placed at the “heart of Europe” in the opening commemoration of the First World War organized by European embassies and their Bosnian partners. The official narrative that pledged for a century of peace after the century of wars suggested the positive impact of European integration on BiH’s violent past. However, local activists claimed divergent interpretations, be it from a nationalist, anti-imperialist or emancipatory perspective. While the commemoration exulted national divisions, it contributed to the construction of BiH as an unstable borderland, which needs to be pacified. Relying on memory and border studies, this article demonstrates that the attempt to institutionalize a pacified memory of the war resulted in legitimizing the European institutions’ domination over Bosnian polity. In fine, it shows how memory politics participates in the securitization of a European borderland.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 749-765
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1462238
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Author-Name: Caleb Bailey
Author-X-Name-First: Caleb
Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey
Title: An Alternative Border Metaphor: On Rhizomes and Disciplinary Boundaries
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The border is an inherently transnational nexus of cultures and identities yet, when approached and articulated from within the discipline of American Studies, often results in a re-entrenchment of singular national histories, cultures, and identities. This essay seeks to address the propensity of the discipline to remain sited within and focused upon the nation-state of the United States of America and its hegemonic ideology at the expense of more wide-ranging hemispheric analyses that account for the fluid, transnational, and borderless identities that America—in its continental configuration—has always been home to. Invoking Deleuze and Guattari’s critical metaphor—the rhizome—the paper develops and deploys analytical techniques which seek out and highlight connections and alternative configurations of existing material, often obfuscated by the supposed territorial integrity of nation and its inhabitant’s identities. Two key texts (Laurie Ricou’s The Arbutus/Madrone Files (2002) and Guillermo Verdecchia’s Fronteras Americanas (1993)) are offered as examples of the ways in which positioning the border itself as a possible rhizomatic line of flight can ensure that borderlands cultural productions retain the multiplicity of the identities that they enact as both spatially and temporally (in)distinct and as challenges to the perpetuation of the border as a static and dichotomous entity.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 767-781
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222875
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Author-Name: Jaleen Grove
Author-X-Name-First: Jaleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Grove
Title: Bending Before the Storm: Continentalism in the Visual Culture of Canadian Magazines
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This essay analyzes the shared visual culture of the United States and Canada in Anglophone magazine illustration 1900–1950, in the context of cultural nationalist rhetoric and continentalism. Focusing on “pretty girl” illustration, it demonstrates how the picturing of women (stemming from patriotic “American Girl” imagery in the US) in Canada signified “the Canadian Girl” in contrast to the well-known Canadian wilderness trope. Although cultural nationalist polemics characterized such imagery as an “invader,” evidence indicates Canadians sought and produced this material eagerly and gave it special Canadian attributes. Both a “British” identity and a modern American identity can be discerned in publishing and authorship contexts, even when the Canadian artwork’s physical appearance is indistinguishable from American counterparts. Visually similar illustration production in the US and Canada suggests that “American” influence should be considered a legitimate facet of Canadian cultural identity, just as British or French influence is, but Canadian art history has neglected it, something this study is meant to rectify. The essay suggests that the flexibility of tropes to be adapted to varying circumstances—to bend—has allowed Canadians to negotiate national identity in degrees of hybridity, reflecting the experience of living in a print culture that transcends the border. Such continentalism has helped to preserve Canada’s autonomy by providing a non-threatening similarity to the United States; by helping Canadians stay culturally literate in Americana, which enables their potential intervention into it; and by providing economic and social advantages to those who partake in its production or reception.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 783-806
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222876
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Author-Name: Katharina Koch
Author-X-Name-First: Katharina
Author-X-Name-Last: Koch
Author-Name: Vilhelmiina Vainikka
Author-X-Name-First: Vilhelmiina
Author-X-Name-Last: Vainikka
Title: The Geopolitical Production of Trust Discourses in Finland: Perspectives from the Finnish-Russian Border
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This article investigates the formation of trust discourses in Finland towards the Finnish-Russian border. The concept of trust has been neglected in previous border studies literature although it is a significant factor in de- and re-bordering processes. Trust is conceptualized as a social practice which derives from actor relations over time. The article investigates the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on Finnish trust perceptions towards Russia and identifies key discourses of trust informing geopolitical knowledge production. The research material consists of newspaper articles and ten semi-structured interviews with Finnish cross-border cooperation actors who operate under the European Neighborhood Instrument (ENI) at the Finnish-Russian border in South and North Karelia. The material is analyzed using a critical geopolitics approach by identifying professional discourses of trust. The research suggests that trust in the local North and South Karelian border regions is based on a complex assemblage of discourses which derive from a geopolitical knowledge production informed by the shared border. This is a continuous practice of various actors negotiating the interlinkage of trust and threat.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 807-827
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646152
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Author-Name: Katarzyna Stoklosa
Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Stoklosa
Title: Grenzen. Räumliche und soziale Trennlinien im Zeitenlauf
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 829-830
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1555050
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Author-Name: Puttaporn (Jip) Areeprachakun
Author-X-Name-First: Puttaporn (Jip)
Author-X-Name-Last: Areeprachakun
Title: Border capitalism, disrupted: precarity and struggle in a Southeast Asian industrial zone
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 831-832
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1669484
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Author-Name: Bruno Charbonneau
Author-X-Name-First: Bruno
Author-X-Name-Last: Charbonneau
Title: African border disorders: addressing transnational extremist organizations
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 833-834
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1666733
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Author-Name: Fawad Poya
Author-X-Name-First: Fawad
Author-X-Name-Last: Poya
Title: The regional security puzzle around Afghanistan: bordering practices in Central Asia and beyond
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 835-836
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1666732
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Author-Name: Vicken Cheterian
Author-X-Name-First: Vicken
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheterian
Title: The Ottoman-Iranian borderlands, making a boundary, 1843–1914
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 837-838
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1666731
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Title: Note
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 839-839
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1649025
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Author-Name: Stephen F. Wolfe
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wolfe
Title: Border Modernism: Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 181-182
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174612
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Author-Name: Aija Lulle
Author-X-Name-First: Aija
Author-X-Name-Last: Lulle
Title: Children and Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 179-180
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174615
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Author-Name: Minerva Campion
Author-X-Name-First: Minerva
Author-X-Name-Last: Campion
Title: The Construction of the Amazonian Borderlands through the longue durée: An Indigenous Perspective
Abstract:
This paper discusses the fragmentation and reconstruction processes of the Amazonian borderlands of Ecuador and Peru. We focus on the Chicham indigenous group, also known by the colonial term jibaro, which has historically offered resistance in the Amazonia. We consider the longue durée a productive perspective to address these borderlands. Most of the bibliography about this particular border region relies on a State-centred approach, so in this paper we stress the indigenous borderland perspective silenced by subalternisation mechanisms.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 123-140
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226926
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Author-Name: Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Author-X-Name-First: Debidatta Aurobinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Mahapatra
Title: From Alienation to Co-existence and Beyond: Examining the Evolution of the Borderland in Kashmir
Abstract:
The article applies Oscar Martinez’s theory of borderland evolution to the case of Kashmir. The India–Pakistan border in Kashmir is a violent and contested South Asian border with implications for the states and the people living along the contested geographical space. The article challenges the premise that the borderland is static in Kashmir. It contends that though it is difficult to predict the course of evolution of the borderland in Kashmir, it is equally imprudent to ignore the evolution of this borderland from being highly rigid to being relatively flexible. Drawing from historical analyses and ethnographic data collected over the last decade, the article makes a case for an engagement with the borderland in Kashmir, and argues that such a reorientation will bring this contested landscape to the center of borderland discourse in South Asia and beyond.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 141-155
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1238316
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Author-Name: Brenda Matossian
Author-X-Name-First: Brenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Matossian
Author-Name: Laila Vejsbjerg
Author-X-Name-First: Laila
Author-X-Name-Last: Vejsbjerg
Title: Mountains and Borders, Geographical Approaches from the South. An Araucanía–North Patagonia Case Study
Abstract:
Argentina and Chile share the third world’s longest international land boundary (5,150 km) delineated by the mountains of the southern section of The Andes. Complex relationships, migratory and commercial exchanges, as well as imaginaries/representations and policies concerning nature conservation and cultural heritage preservation have either divided or brought both countries together, throughout their history as Nation States and neighbors.Argentine and Chilean academics have studied regional borderlands as rather watertight compartments. This tendency to reproduce in the scientific research field the social construction of borders as a limit or division has been modified over the last two decades. Critical and binational studies, from multiple disciplinary perspectives and scales, have explored the transformation of this space shared throughout history. This article collects and systematizes background studies on the Araucanía (Chile) and North Patagonia (Argentina) frontier to identify the main theoretical contributions from Geography and other Social Sciences which have improved debates on space in this borderland. This descriptive research is based on a theoretical and thematic analysis of both recent academic production and activities. Some of the conclusions are: (1) Currently, studies focus on the subjective dimensions of borders. (2) The notion of region as a living space enables us to give center stage to the treatment of border subnational areas. (3) The notion of scale permits us to connect power relations to the dialectics nationalism/internationalization, at interregional and intraregional level. (4) The concept of landscape unveils the importance of imaginaries/representations in the processes of territorialization and frontierization.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 157-177
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257363
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Author-Name: Frank Peck
Author-X-Name-First: Frank
Author-X-Name-Last: Peck
Author-Name: Gail Mulvey
Author-X-Name-First: Gail
Author-X-Name-Last: Mulvey
Title: Cross-Border Collaboration in Economic Development: Institutional Change on the Anglo-Scottish Border
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This article considers how changes in institutional structures affect the motivations of policymakers towards collaboration across borders. The Anglo-Scottish Border is used to illustrate the varied motivations for cross-border collaboration using models of partnership working. Adapting recent frameworks of analysis based on the concept of cross-border regional innovation systems, the Anglo-Scottish border is used to show how institutional changes can alter the balance between symmetries and asymmetries that tend to characterize cross-border relationships. Due to progressive devolution of functions to the Scottish Parliament since the 1990s, there are increasing contrasts in institutional settings and policy frameworks across this sub-state border. The nature of cross-border collaboration in two time periods is compared and contrasted. The first took place during 2000–2004 under the banner of “Border Visions.” This is contrasted with the more recent attempts to stimulate cross-border collaboration in the context of the Referendum on Scottish Independence in 2014. It is shown that the motivations for cross-border working can shift in response to changes in the economy and also in response to interactions between policy debates that occur simultaneously at different spatial scales.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 69-84
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257365
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Author-Name: Claire Colomb
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: Colomb
Title: A European Perspective on Anglo-Scottish Cross-border Cooperation: Lessons from EU-funded Territorial Cooperation Programs
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The article aims to reflect on the development and prospects of cross-border cooperation between Scotland and England in a European perspective. Over the past 25 years the EU has supported specific programs of cooperation across the EU’s internal borders (INTERREG), which have allowed thousands of local and regional actors to work on common actions, projects or strategies to overcome long-standing processes of conflict, competition or lack of cooperation. The paper first discusses the added-value and shortcomings of these EU territorial cooperation initiatives, before considering recent developments and future options for cooperation across the Anglo–Scottish border. In capturing how the drive for local and regional actors within the EU to engage in trans-boundary cooperation is shaped by both the a priori existence of strong, historically-rooted cross-border relationships and by more pragmatic concerns to access new resources and policy ideas, the article goes on to examine how such motivations have played out across the Anglo–Scottish border. While acknowledging the benefits of trans-boundary co-operation, the article provides a more cautious assessment of the various barriers and asymmetries that can hinder cross-border co-operation and, in focusing on the area of spatial planning, highlights a particular challenge for economic and social collaborations across the Anglo–Scottish border. The article ends with a brief reflexion on the implications of the results of the 2016 Brexit referendum, before concluding with the most relevant lessons from European territorial cooperation initiatives for Anglo–Scottish cross-border cooperation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 103-122
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267585
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Author-Name: Ysanne Holt
Author-X-Name-First: Ysanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Holt
Title: Performing the Anglo-Scottish Border: Cultural Landscapes, Heritage and Borderland Identities
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Recent times have seen much reflection on the nature of the Anglo-Scottish border region; its past, present and potential future. Political concerns have rightly absorbed much of the attention, but at the same time important light has been shed on the legacy of cultural engagements and forms of interaction that might be said to perform and produce this border over time and render it particularly distinctive. A soft, internal border, the territory considered in this article is one with an ancient feudal past and a heavily conserved, preserved and, in parts, still militarized present. It is predominantly rural and characterized by large swathes of forestry, agriculture, and moorland, all of which raise issues of aesthetic and environmental, as well as social and economic sustainability. The concern in the case studies presented in this article is how, through the relational and processual perspectives of border studies and cultural landscapes, we might comprehend the over layered and sedimented histories, the nature of identities, heritage and experience of place here. I consider too the ways in which recent forms of creative practice are contributing to a wider investigation of this region and re-conceptualizing the cultural significance of the border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 53-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267586
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Author-Name: Keith Shaw
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw
Title: “Northern Lights:” An Assessment of the Political and Economic Challenges Facing North East England in the Context of Greater Scottish Autonomy
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Drawing on recent research on the Anglo-Scottish border, this article examines the social and economic impact of a more powerful Scotland on its “nearest neighbors” in the North East of England. In examining a series of competing narratives that shape how the significance of the Anglo-Scottish border and borderlands have been understood, the discussion begins by highlighting the longevity of a traditional conflictual narrative that a more powerful Scotland will undermine the North East’s economic fortunes. The article will further consider the strength of a competitive narrative by capturing how North East reactions to the independence referendum north of the border have been used as a springboard to argue for greater powers to be devolved to the North East itself— and has led directly to a new generation of “Devolution Deals” being offered by the UK Government to the English regions. Thirdly, the article will examine how the discursive space created by the referendum campaign (and outcome) has created the conditions within which a collaborative narrative—highlighting how Scotland and the North East of England have a shared history and common social and economic challenges—has emerged. The article will conclude by considering whether the emergence of a new cross-border relationship between the “Northern Lights” allows the Anglo-Scottish border to be conceptualized more as a “bridge” than a “barrier,” particularly given the UK’s recent decision to leave the EU.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 35-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1270170
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Author-Name: Keith Shaw
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw
Title: Bringing the Anglo-Scottish Border “Back in”: Reassessing Cross-border Relations in the Context of Greater Scottish Autonomy
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This special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies “brings the Anglo-Scottish border back in” by drawing upon six of the contributions from an ESRC Seminar Series on the nature of the cross-border relationship between Scotland and its “closest cousins,” in Northern England. The seminars, which took place in 2014–2015, involved a range of contributors including academics, policy-makers and practitioners, with the academics drawn from a range of disciplines, including politics, cultural history, visual culture, economic geography, sociology, and planning. This introduction will examine the main characteristics of the Anglo–Scottish border and capture the nature of contemporary border change. It will then focus on the cross-border relationship between Scotland and the North of England before highlighting the key themes of the six articles contained in this special issue. It will conclude by examining how debates on the Anglo–Scottish border, and its borderlands, can be located within recent attempts to reconceptualize borders and bordering.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-18
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294023
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Author-Name: Iain McLean
Author-X-Name-First: Iain
Author-X-Name-Last: McLean
Title: The No-men of England: Tyne & Wear County Council and the failure of the Scotland and Wales Acts 1978
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The Scotland and Wales Acts 1978 failed on multiple criteria. Although devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales was a principal policy of the UK Labour governments in office from 1974 to 1979, it was defeated in a guillotine vote in 1977. That defeat was orchestrated by the leaders of Tyne & Wear County Council, angry that a government of their own party was apparently neglecting their region in favor of Scotland. The project was rescued in two separate bills, but a further rebel amendment inserted a minimum assent condition in the required referendums. The people of Wales rejected the devolution they were offered. The people of Scotland accepted it, but by a margin that failed to cross the threshold. The resulting vote of confidence brought down the Labour government in March 1979. The role of Tyne & Wear County Council in killing the bills has never been fully acknowledged. The lessons of the story for current devolution policy are explored. Its lesson for relations between Scotland and the north of England are as fresh now as then. The border between Scotland and England is permeable while the United Kingdom remains a single country. Therefore any policy for tax transfers and public expenditure differentials must be fair to the English as well as to the people of the other three territories. The main relevant findings from fiscal federalism are presented.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 19-33
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294024
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Author-Name: Ruth Taillon
Author-X-Name-First: Ruth
Author-X-Name-Last: Taillon
Title: Cross-Border Issues in Ireland: Lessons for the Anglo-Scottish Border
Abstract:
Many of the core socio-economic, cultural and political issues which have for long, and continue to, afflict the Irish border region, whether directly attributable to or intensified by the conflict, or those that reflect economic imbalances due to geographical factors, do not respect jurisdictional boundaries. Indeed, the varied obstacles associated with the border or issues which are innately cross-border in nature, cannot be effectively addressed by either jurisdiction in isolation from the other. However, while cooperative action on a cross-border basis, based upon partnership towards the mutual exchange of experiences and the pooling of resources, offers potential for the effective achievement of shared objectives, there are also a number of challenges facing cross-border collaboration. This article endeavors to examine the different forms of cross-border co-operation across the Irish border, while evaluating the successes and failures of the approach institutionalized by the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. In particular, and reflecting on Anglo-Scottish experiences, it will argue for the importance of systemic capacity-building for the efficacy of cross-border cooperation. The article concludes by emphasizing the increasingly complex nature of cross-border cooperation across the United Kingdom and Ireland, particularly in the light of the impending withdrawal of the UK from membership of the European Union.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 85-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294493
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Author-Name: Anastasia Bezverkha
Author-X-Name-First: Anastasia
Author-X-Name-Last: Bezverkha
Title: Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation
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The study examines the patterns of media representation of the Crimean Tatars’ deportation of 1944, in particular discursive strategies of exclusions and inclusions based on territorial and ethnic markers of collective identity. The study puts forward the argument that the Russian political and cultural dominance prevails in the media discourse of Crimea, often suppressing the voice and agency of the ethnic minority groups, such as the Crimean Tatars. The public debate over the collective memory of deportation, its historical significance for the Tatars and its consequences is often framed in terms of the post-Soviet “official” version of historical meta-narrative, the issue of the political responsibility is omitted, while Soviet-molded images of the “treachery” of the Crimean Tatar people are being reproduced in the media. This study demonstrates how the Crimean Tatar ethnic media outlets develop their own counter-discourse of deportation by means of publicizing personal narratives of the deportation survivors, thus promoting their alternative version of the memory of deportation portrayed as mass repression against the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet totalitarian regime. Even though the recent events in Crimea show that borders may change de facto, without changing de jure, this study, conducted during the period of 2010–2012, could still shed light on the logic behind the social borders constructed within the Crimean multiethnic society.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 127-139
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1066699
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Author-Name: Kevin Grieves
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Grieves
Title: “Our Troubled Neighbour Across the River”: Transborder Journalism in a Canadian–US Border Region
Abstract:
Coverage of the city of Detroit's 2013 bankruptcy by international and national journalists has been criticized for its sensationalism and distortion. Journalists from Windsor, Ontario, just across the river, cover the Detroit story as simultaneously international and local news. Analysis of Windsor newspaper and broadcast content indicates general avoidance of those tendencies. Elements of strong transborder connectedness, but also complex and sometimes conflicted sentiments appear in professional journalistic narratives as well as in user comments on a humorous online news poll.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 141-155
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1066700
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Author-Name: Georgie Wemyss
Author-X-Name-First: Georgie
Author-X-Name-Last: Wemyss
Title: Placing the Border in Everyday Life
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 269-270
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1101707
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Author-Name: Pádraig Carmody
Author-X-Name-First: Pádraig
Author-X-Name-Last: Carmody
Title: Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 271-272
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1114008
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Author-Name: Chiara Brambilla
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Brambilla
Title: Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 273-274
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1115735
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Author-Name: Noura S. Al Mazrouei
Author-X-Name-First: Noura S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Al Mazrouei
Title: The Revival of the UAE–Saudi Arabia Border Dispute in the 21 Century
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The revival of the UAE-Saudi border disputes in the 21st century brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, which were often dominated by scholars’ assumptions about the Treaty of Jeddah having ended the disputes. The past decade has witnessed a change in the political profile of the disputes. This paper addresses this change by tracing developments concerning the boundary question after the signing of the Treaty of Jeddah, and then by examining the treaty’s articles, in particular those relevant to the revival of the border dispute in 2004.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 157-172
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1124242
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Author-Name: Nimmi Kurian
Author-X-Name-First: Nimmi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurian
Title: How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 267-268
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174613
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Author-Name: Oscar Mazzoleni
Author-X-Name-First: Oscar
Author-X-Name-Last: Mazzoleni
Author-Name: Sean Mueller
Author-X-Name-First: Sean
Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller
Title: Cross-Border Integration through Contestation? Political Parties and Media in the Swiss–Italian Borderland
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This article analyzes how, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, regional integration across an international border took place through political contestation. Although the crisis has been interpreted as leading to a revival of state borders, we show its differentiated impact on cross-border relationships at the heart of Western Europe, namely the Swiss–Italian borderland. A database encompassing over 1,800 articles published in 11 different print and online newspapers over two years (2010–2012) allowed an analysis of the role played by political parties and the media as drivers of contestation. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses trace processes of both re-bordering (“Switzerland vs. Italy/the EU”) and de-bordering (that is, integration across the border) through discourses prioritizing “the region.” The wider implication from this study is that borderlands are subject to the same push- and pull-factors as states but that, additionally, a third dimension is present. Ignoring this intra-state center-periphery dimension means not fully capturing borderland dynamics, all the more so if political entrepreneurs skillfully seize spatial contention to advance their own conception of regional identity distinct from that of their nation-state.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 173-192
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195698
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Author-Name: Juha Ridanpää
Author-X-Name-First: Juha
Author-X-Name-Last: Ridanpää
Title: Culturological Analysis of Filmic Border Crossings: Popular Geopolitics of Accessing the Soviet Union from Finland
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Recent studies in popular geopolitics have emphasized how films and the film industry play a significant role in the process of constructing politically charged worldviews, stereotypes of the “other,” as well as in the cultural reproduction of world politics. The production and screening of films takes place within certain social and geopolitical circumstances, which set the limits and the scope of perspective as far as what is a permissible, advisable or correct manner for film makers to approach certain politically charged topics. This paper discusses the geopolitical circumstances through which the national border of Finland and the Soviet Union has become an elementary part of the content of films, and how films focusing on the problematics of border crossing have a certain operational function within the context of their own creating. The specific focus is on how world geopolitics, in this case the Second World War, sets the limits for a film industry concerning what topics are suitable for audiences, how the act of crossing a border becomes a filmic event through which national identity is constructed and maintained, and how films play an operative role in the game in which foreign relations are performed, in this case in the politics of Finlandization. The material discussed consists of three films: Yli Rajan [Over the Border] (Ilmari 1942), Tuntematon Sotilas [The Unknown Soldier] (Laine 1955) and Born American (Harlin 1986).
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 193-209
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195699
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Author-Name: Igor Ryabov
Author-X-Name-First: Igor
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryabov
Author-Name: Stephen Merino
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Merino
Title: Recent Demographic Change in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: The Importance of Domestic Migration
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The present study examines the role of domestic migration in a massive demographic change in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of Texas with a special focus on ethnic composition of migration flows. Specifically, using two datasets derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and American Community Survey (ACS), this project: (1) outlines demographic profiles of domestic inbound and outbound migrants; (2) identifies determinants of migration for different types of movers; and (3) predicts the change in the Index of Dissimilarity (IT) at the census-tract level in the RGV. Results indicate that: (1) compared to stayers, Anglos were overrepresented among all migrant categories in the RGV; (2) leavers were likely to be motivated by career/employment opportunities outside the Valley, while affordable housing in the Valley was the primary motivating factor for newcomers; (3) recently arrived Hispanic immigrants became more segregated. The most important finding is that, compared to Hispanics, Anglos were not ‘pushed’ from the Valley by a growing Mexican-American population but became more segregated.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 211-231
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195704
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Author-Name: D. Carolina Ramos
Author-X-Name-First: D. Carolina
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramos
Title: Identity Performances in a US–Mexico Border Celebration
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This analysis discusses how individuals living in Laredo, Texas, a city situated in the US–Mexico border region, celebrate and negotiate their identities through experiences in the annual Washington Birthday Celebration (WBC). The study provides insight into how a city that has been identified as the least diverse city in the United States, with 98% of its population being Latino (Lee, Barrett A., John Iceland, and Gregory Sharp. 2012. Racial and Ethnic Diversity Goes Local: Charting change in American Communities over Three Decades. Department of Sociology and Population Research Institute The Pennsylvania State University.) and about 91% of the population speaking Spanish (United States Census Bureau. 2013. Language use in the United States: 2011. [Data file]. http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf), celebrates US American figures in a patriotic event established in 1898. Through engagement in this celebration, individuals take part in performing and constructing their identities, with physical performances of US American historical figures being afforded only to a select few. In order to answer how the WBC serves as a site for performances and negotiations of identity, the focus of this analysis is on enactments observed in The Society of Martha Washington (SMW) and on the experiences and interpretations of seven focal participants whose social group membership distinguishes how and to what extent they can perform a specific identity. The findings of this study suggest that participants share in their understanding of the manner in which a patriotic event is celebrated through the inclusion of two border cultures, but also illustrate how a particular kind of identity performance is accessible only to some, establishing status differentials in what is meant to be a shared celebration.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 233-247
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195705
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Author-Name: Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Baptiste
Author-X-Name-Last: Harguindéguy
Author-Name: Almudena Sánchez Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: Almudena
Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez Sánchez
Title: European Cross-Border Regions as Policy-makers: A Comparative Approach
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This paper aims to quantify and compare the 177 European cross-border regions (CBR) according to their policy activity between 1959 and 2012. Different variables (number of cross-border regional partners, legal status, physical border effect, cross-border regional growth, domestic product per capita, level of territorial autonomy, integrated governance, and geographic location) were tested in order to analyze their impact on the CBR’s policy activity. It is demonstrated that only three independent variables have a significant effect on the policy activity of CBR: their period of creation, the socioeconomic level of participating members, and the integrated governance of the CBR.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 249-265
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195706
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Author-Name: Henry Curtis
Author-X-Name-First: Henry
Author-X-Name-Last: Curtis
Title: Constructing Cooperation: Chinese Ontological Security Seeking in the South China Sea Dispute
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Chinese actions regarding disputes in the South China Sea have varied between complacence, use of force, and active engagement in attempts to forge cooperative relationships with disputant nations. In this paper, I argue that analysis of China's actions centered on the material and strategic importance of the Sea does not adequately account for the broad changes in China's behavior. Instead, I apply the theory of Ontological Security, arguing that changes in China's behavior in the dispute can best be explained as an attempt by China to maintain security of its national identity. In particular, I argue that China's historical understanding of its self, the expectations that arise from this, and the alignment of South East Asian state's actions with these expectations, inform China's attitude and actions in the dispute.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 537-549
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1066698
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Author-Name: Anthony I. Asiwaju
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony I.
Author-X-Name-Last: Asiwaju
Title: Scars of Partition: Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 565-566
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1067825
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Author-Name: María Dolores París-Pombo
Author-X-Name-First: María Dolores
Author-X-Name-Last: París-Pombo
Author-Name: Diana Carolina Peláez-Rodríguez
Author-X-Name-First: Diana Carolina
Author-X-Name-Last: Peláez-Rodríguez
Title: Far from Home: Mexican Women Deported from the US to Tijuana, Mexico
Abstract:
This article presents the results of a study on deported women in Tijuana, Mexico. It describes the experiences and post-deportation emotions of these women and analyzes the role of the shelter as an in-between space amidst the two countries, amidst the loss that deportation represents and the women's potential recovery process, considered as their return home. The paper discusses the emotions related to family separation and the motivations that lead migrants to attempt crossing back into the US. In their efforts to re-enter the country, many of these women put their lives or personal integrity at risk by having to take dangerous and unsafe routes. If they succeed and make it back to their homes, they would live in permanent fear of being arrested and imprisoned, for months or even years, for the “crime” of having returned to the US without authorization.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 551-561
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1068208
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Author-Name: Tamar Arieli
Author-X-Name-First: Tamar
Author-X-Name-Last: Arieli
Title: Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 563-564
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1101705
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Author-Name: Anusa Daimon
Author-X-Name-First: Anusa
Author-X-Name-Last: Daimon
Title: Commuter Migration Across Artificial Frontiers: The Case of Partitioned Communities Along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique Border
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This article engages the border perceptions and experiences/uses of partitioned African borderland communities along the Zimbabwe–Mozambique border so as to understand and explain the prevalence of cross-border commuter migration. Using ethnographic data gathered from the ethnic Shona communities straddled across the border, it observes that commuting is rampant due to subtle ethno-nationalist beliefs that have flouted official norms of sovereign nation-statism and control. Despite the fact that these trans-border communities are quite conscious of the border's existence, they have chosen not to recognize its juridical functions, claiming that it is artificial. Hence, they have viewed it as an imaginary boundary; a transnational environment or frontier where socio-economic-cultural inter-connections can be made without restrictions. Thus, many commute daily on foot using illegal crossing points scattered along the mountainous boundary. Those in Mozambique prefer shuttling to the better Zimbabwean schools and hospitals across the border, while those in Zimbabwe conduct kinship rites, shopping/trade and engage traditional authorities in Mozambique. In the process, the Zimbabwe–Mozambican border has been reduced to an artificial and arbitrary boundary which does not respond to what the local people believe to be rational boundaries. Consequently, the border has become highly fluid and elastic as it constantly shifts according to the dictates of the partitioned communities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 463-479
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174593
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Author-Name: Enrique G. Pérez-Nieto
Author-X-Name-First: Enrique G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez-Nieto
Title: Centralization as a Barrier to Cross-Border Cooperation? Some Preliminary Notes from an Iberian Approach
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This article explores the drivers and path of cross-border cooperation (CBC), a key—although relatively unexplored—part of the complex process of European regional integration. For Portugal and Spain, the promotion of certain cleavages by the political agency in different historical processes led to an opposite degree of (de)centralization after their long-lasting autocratic periods. Along with other related factors, this disparity in the current organization of both—unitary—Iberian States is hypothesized as a potential obstacle for the design and implementation of cross-border cooperation projects.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 481-495
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174597
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Author-Name: Kunal Mukherjee
Author-X-Name-First: Kunal
Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherjee
Title: Indo-Pak Relations and the Kashmir Problem: From 1947 to the Present Day
Abstract:
The paper looks at Indo-Pak hostility and the Kashmir problem in contemporary South Asia. The aim of the paper is to give readers an overview of the ongoing insurgency in Kashmir. After some theoretical and historical background, the paper looks at the current situation in Kashmir. The paper is especially interested in how the conflict in Kashmir has changed its character with the passage of time from the 1950s till 2015. Methodologically, the paper takes a strong bottom-up approach, and data for purposes of this paper was collected by interviewing people at the grassroots level. Finally, methods of peace building have been suggested as the way forward.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 497-520
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174607
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Author-Name: Ugur Yildiz
Author-X-Name-First: Ugur
Author-X-Name-Last: Yildiz
Title: “Precarity” of the Territorialized State: Immigrants Re-drawing and Re-mapping the Borders
Abstract:
Any narrative on borders at the outset tends to begin with the Westphalian inclusionary and exclusionary system of nation-state through oftentimes highlighting the constructed nature of the mapping and drawing territorially defined landscapes. In its general notion, the concretization of borders simultaneously brings the system of nation-state which has fundamentally divided world into societies and states and has represented the regime of border as historically natural. The aim of this article is to approach this concrete and historically constructed phenomenon from the perspective of migrants with a focus on their acts of border crossing. The rationale of the article is two-fold— first, theoretical exploration and conceptualization of the border: the border as a space of heterotopia, the border as a liminal space or liminality, and the border as representational space. Second, the article aims to combine theoretical conceptualization with the empirical case. The article aims to explore the way of re-mapping, re-drawing, and re-shaping of borders by the agency of Other through concentrating on the perception of migrants and asylum seekers who are seeking asylum in Turkey and waiting to be resettled to a third safe country, here Canada. Through focusing on the migrants’ mappings of these non-real and non-utopian places via semi-structured interviews conducted in Turkey, the paper aims to re-draw and re-shape the permeability and contingency of borders through visualizing phenomenological experience of individuals on the route and at the borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 521-536
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174608
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Author-Name: Inocent Moyo
Author-X-Name-First: Inocent
Author-X-Name-Last: Moyo
Title: The Beitbridge–Mussina Interface: Towards Flexible Citizenship, Sovereignty and Territoriality at the Border
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Located at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the Beitbridge border post aptly demonstrates border citizenship from below. Established as a result of the London Convention of 1884, the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe finds expression at the Beitbridge border post. However, Venda-speaking people on both sides of the border post who were “separated” when the border was drawn have always engaged in dynamic and agentive ways that defy the existence of the border. This interaction pre-dated and survived the colonial and apartheid years in the then Southern Rhodesia and South African Republic, respectively. After both countries attained independence, they have remained blind to the reality of border citizens. Consequently, the fact that Venda-speaking people have—against strict and successive regulatory regimes from colonial to postcolonial times—“defied” the border and continue to do so, establishes a case of their being de facto border citizens. This not only challenges the inflexible territoriality of citizenship at both the South African and Zimbabwean borders, but also presents a compelling case for the recognition of border citizens and the granting of easy and controlled movement based on best practices in other parts of the world.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 427-440
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1188666
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Author-Name: Arnon Medzini
Author-X-Name-First: Arnon
Author-X-Name-Last: Medzini
Title: Life on the Border: The Impact of the Separation Barrier on the Residents of the Barta'a Enclave Demilitarized Zone
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The route of the separation barrier between Israel and the Palestinian Authority does not coincide exactly with the border commonly known as the Green Line. As a result, a number of territorial enclaves have emerged along the length of the barrier that the State of Israel has not annexed but the Palestinian Authority is unable to administer and govern. These enclaves have become demilitarized zones of sorts, where the Palestinian residents live without any organized system of government. They have no effectual local government, no effective mechanism for collecting taxes, no organized planning, no labor laws and no veterinary supervision. The residents of these enclaves have been cut off from the West Bank, which had provided them with essential services in the past. The resultant situation should have had a deleterious impact on the residents’ economic development. In reality, however, the opposite took place. The citizens of the State of Israel see the separation barrier (and not the Green Line) as a security border and thus perceive the area as safe. Because of this sense of security, many consumers engage in lively commercial contacts with the Palestinian residents. As a result, business is booming in the villages within the enclave and the economy is flourishing. New shopping areas and stores are being built, along with garages, restaurants and factories, all benefitting from the low tax rates and cheap labor in an area where there is no established local government. The aim of this paper is to provide a multidisciplinary examination of how the residents of the village of Barta'a have coped socially, economically and politically with the changes that have taken place in their village. These changes have resulted from the remarking of the borderline, which has divided members of the same family between Israelis living in the State of Israel and Palestinians living in a territorial enclave. The paper examines how the residents cope with the geopolitical changes that have occurred along the ceasefire line over time.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 401-425
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1188667
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Author-Name: Amjad Naveed
Author-X-Name-First: Amjad
Author-X-Name-Last: Naveed
Author-Name: Nisar Ahmad
Author-X-Name-First: Nisar
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad
Title: Technology Spillovers and International Borders: A Spatial Econometric Analysis
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The borders of the EU are open for the movement of resources but still there can be some strong negative effects of international borders on productivity and knowledge spillovers compared to the internal regional borders. These negative effects could be due to language barriers, cultural differences, local rules and regulation, legal issues, property rights, etc. These effects of international borders have an economic significance that need to be controlled when analyzing the regional knowledge spillovers. This aspect related to international borders has not been fully taken into account in the existing literature related to knowledge spillovers, therefore, ignoring this effect might under- or overestimate the effect of knowledge and technology spillovers. The results show that technology and knowledge spillovers are mainly coming from internal neighbor regions only, whereas spillovers across the international borders are statistically insignificant. Moreover, the results show that not properly incorporating border effects will lead to inaccurate estimates of the spillovers.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 441-461
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1188669
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: ei-ei
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1248054
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Author-Name: Harlan Koff
Author-X-Name-First: Harlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Koff
Title: Limits to Globalization: National Borders Still Matter
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 121-122
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1052982
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Author-Name: Reece Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Reece
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones
Title: Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community, and Securitizing Space
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 123-124
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1189803
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Author-Name: Irina Busygina
Author-X-Name-First: Irina
Author-X-Name-Last: Busygina
Title: How Does Russian Federalism Work? Looking at Internal Borders in the Russian Federation
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The article examines the internal borders of the Russian Federation as a way of gaining greater understanding of the functioning of Russian federalism. With its huge territorial expanse, Russia seeks to achieve a dominant position in Eurasia. The mode of organization of Russian space can either facilitate or hinder this ambition. Formally Russia is a federation, but the practices of center-regional relations do not correspond with classical models of federalism. Analyzing whether the internal borders of the federation act in ways typical of federations in general sheds light on both the nature of federations, and the question of whether Russia is a true federation. After discussion of a number of accounts of the way borders work in a federation, the article looks at the institutional design of the Russian Federation in the 1990s before proceeding to examine the regional reforms of Vladimir Putin in the 2000s from the perspective of federal borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 105-119
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1197790
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Author-Name: Alexander Bukh
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Bukh
Title: European–East Asian Borders in Translation
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 125-126
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1201430
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Author-Name: Jeremy Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: The Transformation of Soviet Republic Borders to International Borders: Competing Concepts of the Kazakhstan-Russia Border
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The regime of Nursultan Nazarbayev has pursued two priorities in regard to its border regime since Kazakhstan became independent at the end of 1991: on the one hand maintaining an open border regime in respect to trade and other forms of economic activity, and on the other hand keeping control over the border in order to meet a variety of perceived security threats. The evident tensions between these two priorities have led to a shifting and unpredictable border regime, which is also conditioned by actions on the part of Kazakhstan’s neighbors. The article explores the two competing discourses of the border through examination of the 1992 Law on the Border and the documents of the Customs Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the early 2000s. The competing discourses are historically conditioned and are derived from three main considerations: the conviction that Kazakhstan could only survive and prosper if it maintained a continuation of the close economic relations of the Soviet Union; the function of the border in the nation-state building project; and perceived security threats which increased in influence at the end of the 1990s and in the early 2000s.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 91-104
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1211958
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Author-Name: Alena Vieira
Author-X-Name-First: Alena
Author-X-Name-Last: Vieira
Title: A Tale of Two Unions: Russia–Belarus Integration Experience and its Lessons for the Eurasian Economic Union
Abstract:
The present contribution explores the evolution of the Eurasian initiative against the background of a more distant integration project, namely the Russia-Belarus Union State. It demonstrates that in spite of the Eurasian integration project’s more solid economic foundation and constant engagement from Moscow, the former has demonstrated a persistent similarity to the latter. The article looks into the divergence of interests of the Eurasian project participants, which has been exacerbated by the Ukraine crisis. Contrary to the main idea underpinning both the Russia–Belarus and the Eurasian initiatives, their evolution has not led to a full abolition of borders and these have demonstrated a persistent tendency to find their way back into existence.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 41-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1211959
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Author-Name: Akihiro Iwashita
Author-X-Name-First: Akihiro
Author-X-Name-Last: Iwashita
Title: Borders Inside and Outside Alliances: Russia’s Eastern Frontiers During the Cold War and After
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This article examines the relationship between borders and alliances in Russian foreign policy. From the early 1990s, with the disintegration of the alliances and blocs of the Cold War, “national borders” reemerged and were either reactivated along the lines of pre-Soviet ones, or were created from the arbitrary lines of Soviet administrators. Yet, the remaking of alliances in recent years has shadowed these re-bordering processes. The enlargement of the EU and NATO in Europe, and the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union have created a new rivalry between alliances. This has resulted in a contradictory and complex geopolitical landscape, where the re-bordered space of the post-Cold War period is de-bordered under the new circumstances of these alliances. In the case of Asian borders, the situation seems different from European circumstances where East and West were divided by a “wall” that divided a continent and overlay national borders. In Asia, national borders became more naturalized through the so-called hub and spoke of alliance making centered on US bilateral security arrangements. This article turns to the Russo-Chinese and Russo-Japanese cases, and traces the emergence of a kind of European-Asian hybrid model of the relationship between borders and alliances. It examines the correlation between (b)order making and alliances through an analysis of the dynamics affecting Russia’s eastern borders vis-à-vis China and Japan.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 55-70
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222873
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Author-Name: Paul Benjamin Richardson
Author-X-Name-First: Paul Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson
Title: Geopolitical Visions, Globalisation, and the Remaking of Russia’s Eurasian Borders
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This paper traces how reconfigurations of Russia’s inter-state borders in post-Soviet space and in Asia are being rationalized through two distinct vectors: one which privileges modernization, cross-border flows, and is framed in terms of integration with the global economy; and an alternative vision, which is related to geopolitical imperatives and a response to shifts in Russia’s relationship with the West. The paper follows these two distinct narratives on integration in the rhetoric and speeches of the political leadership, as well as in the policy initiatives of the government. At times complementary, these world-views have combined to further cross-border flows and investment, yet at the same time they have also thrown up new contradictions and tensions. Recognizing a dialectic process behind regional integration initiatives can offer us new analytical insights and possibilities for understanding the unpredictable and uncertain reshaping of Russia’s borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 7-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222874
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Author-Name: Vicken Cheterian
Author-X-Name-First: Vicken
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheterian
Title: The Last Closed Border of the Cold War: Turkey–Armenia
Abstract:
In the post-Soviet Caucasus, a number of borders remain blocked as a result of ethno-territorial conflicts that emerged in the early 1990s. Yet, there is one closed border that does not fit the pattern: the Turkish–Armenian border. This border has not been the site of any conflict in that period, and belongs to an entirely different geopolitical space: the border that previously separated the Soviet Union from Turkey, as well as independent Armenia from the Republic of Turkey. To understand the nature of the conflict that keeps the Turkish–Armenian border closed, therefore, one has to look for historic references that go beyond the Soviet legacy and bring in Ottoman history, and specifically the Genocide of Ottoman Armenians in 1915–1916. This analysis sheds new light on understanding the modern conflicts of the Caucasus, which have previously been studied mostly within the context of the Soviet experience.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 71-90
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226927
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Author-Name: James Wesley Scott
Author-X-Name-First: James Wesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott
Title: Constructing European Neighborhood: Critical Perspectives from EU-Ukraine Interaction and Civil Society Actors
Abstract:
How can EU actorness be conceptualized within the context of Neighborhood? The central purpose of this essay is to contribute a “bottom-up” and more contextually sensitive perspective to the critical assessment of European Union actorness and, in this way, also contribute to a more inclusive understanding of Neighborhood as a regional cooperation project. In doing this, the essay also deals with local Ukrainian rather than EU-centric perspectives on the EU’s more general societal impacts. Based on research that specifically targeted civil society actors in Ukraine with clear pro-EU sympathies the essay explores the ambivalent nature of the European Union as a political actor on the international scene. This also includes perceptions of the evolving quality of the EU’s social and political influence. Rather than pre-supposing a specific geopolitical role for the EU within the so-called Neighborhood, this contribution will emphasize perceived contradictions and contested political and socio-cultural underpinnings of EU cooperation policies. At the same time, the paper will also indicate the ways in which local actors interpret the EU as a potential promoter of greater intercultural dialogue and social transformation. While the picture that emerges is one of a policy divide between the EU and Ukraine, spaces for social engagement and dialogue nevertheless exist and urgently need to be developed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 23-39
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1247651
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Author-Name: Jeremy Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Paul Richardson
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson
Title: The Myth of Eurasia—a Mess of Regions
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-6
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1266276
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Author-Name: Keegan Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Keegan
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: New Border and Citizenship Politics
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 311-313
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1201429
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Author-Name: Cuauhtémoc Mexica
Author-X-Name-First: Cuauhtémoc
Author-X-Name-Last: Mexica
Title: Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 315-316
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226928
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Author-Name: Scott R. Stephenson
Author-X-Name-First: Scott R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephenson
Author-Name: Rebecca Pincus
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Pincus
Title: Challenges of Sea-Ice Prediction for Arctic Marine Policy and Planning
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Sea ice presents an important challenge for trans-border coordination of Arctic maritime infrastructure. Widespread summer sea-ice melt and anticipated expansion of shipping and offshore oil and gas drilling have highlighted a need for seasonal forecasts and decadal projections of sea ice for strategic planning efforts. While the long-term trend in sea-ice extent is expected to remain negative, ice conditions exhibit large spatial and temporal variability, raising uncertainty and operational risks of navigation in seasonally ice-covered areas. Given the potential trans-border impacts of a maritime accident on the marine and coastal environment, predicting ice conditions is of critical interest to government, industry, and community stakeholders. Seasonal ice forecasts have shown promise for short-term operational decision-making, while decadal projections from general circulation models are increasingly being used for long-term planning of energy, security, and environmental policy. However, numerous issues complicate the application of sea-ice prediction methods for policy and planning. This paper examines the potential of sea-ice prediction as a tool to support strategic planning, with a focus on the trans-border marine space of the US and Canadian Arctic. The utility and limitations of seasonal and decadal sea-ice prediction are reviewed, followed by a discussion of the infrastructure and policy context within which sea-ice forecasts may be used to enhance safety and mitigate risk in the Arctic.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 255-272
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294494
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Author-Name: Jessica M. Shadian
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shadian
Title: Navigating Political Borders Old and New: The Territoriality of Indigenous Inuit Governance
Abstract:
This article looks at the ways in which borders have and continue to construct, define, and redefine Arctic collective political identities, the Arctic’s political geography and finally the implications of changing borders for Arctic policymaking. The article begins by engaging with critical international relations and geography literature regarding border construction as a physical entity and as an intellectual construct. The following two sections focus on the making and remaking of Inuit borders and the reconceptualization of political space which has accompanied this process. Through a case study of what is defined here as the Inuit polity (Shadian, J. M. 2014. The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty: Oil, Ice, and Inuit Governance. New York: Routledge), sections three and four re-examine the sedimented and traditional notions of borders, the newly created borders carved out of the land claims, those political entities which transcend state borders through Inuit Arctic politics, and the less well-defined borders that exist between water and land, ice and land, ice and water. The article then turns to the specific policy case of Arctic Search and Rescue and the tensions between conventional state-centered policy and Inuit political spaces. The point is to draw out the ways in which conventional thinking about borders limits the complex realities and challenges for Arctic Search and Rescue. Lastly, this paper brings this critical analysis of borders and territoriality to think about what critical political geography may impart regarding questions of governance, legal space, and policy in the Arctic.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 273-288
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1300781
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Author-Name: Scott R. Stephenson
Author-X-Name-First: Scott R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephenson
Title: Confronting Borders in the Arctic
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In this thematic issue, six papers and three short commentaries investigate the evolving nature of borders in the Arctic in an era of climate change and globalization. Together, they illustrate how processes unique to the Arctic, such as sea ice melt and Inuit self-governance, tell a larger story about the co-evolving relationship of people and the environment, and the physical and constructed borders that give them meaning. Arctic human–environment relations are embedded in distinct histories and materialities in which border-making is understood as a multi-scalar arena of subnational and transnational actors, rather than the exclusive domain of the state. At the same time, the Arctic is shaped by powerful agents of change whose impacts span national borders and reconfigure environmental barriers. The papers in this issue reveal the ways in which Arctic climatic, political, economic, and demographic change amount to a transformation in thinking about Arctic borders and bordered spaces. We hope that the Arctic case will stimulate further investigation in borderlands around the world undergoing similarly transformative changes to physical and human systems.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 183-190
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1302812
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Author-Name: Lassi Heininen
Author-X-Name-First: Lassi
Author-X-Name-Last: Heininen
Author-Name: Matthias Finger
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Finger
Title: The “Global Arctic” as a New Geopolitical Context and Method
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The term "GlobalArctic" was officially launched at the 2014 Arctic Circle Assembly (see: www.globalarctic.org). The idea for this term was not conceived in a vacuum; rather it was the outcome of a critical analysis on the state of Arctic geopolitics and security in the era of globalization with complex and deeply interdependent ecological, economic, environmental, cultural, political, and societal processes. It is important to note that global impacts in the Arctic are nothing new, since the region has historically been a part of the international system. Further, the discourse of regionalism, “the Arctic as a distinctive region”, of the 1990s is no longer sufficient and does not explain the current state of Arctic geopolitics. This article argues that the term “global Arctic” is not a discourse, but a new research and teaching method, an analytical means to study and examine significant changes both in the Arctic region and globally, as well as the current more complex geopolitical context with deeper and more obvious interdependence.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 199-202
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1315605
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Author-Name: Jessica M. Shadian
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shadian
Title: Finding the Global Arctic
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 195-198
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1319289
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Author-Name: Klaus Dodds
Author-X-Name-First: Klaus
Author-X-Name-Last: Dodds
Title: Global Arctic
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 191-194
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1332488
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Author-Name: Kristen L. Shake
Author-X-Name-First: Kristen L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shake
Author-Name: Karen E. Frey
Author-X-Name-First: Karen E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Frey
Author-Name: Deborah G. Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Author-Name: Philip E. Steinberg
Author-X-Name-First: Philip E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Steinberg
Title: (Un)frozen Spaces: Exploring the Role of Sea Ice in the Marine Socio-legal Spaces of the Bering and Beaufort Seas
Abstract:
Sea ice is a dynamic physical element of the greater Arctic marine system, one that has myriad connections to human systems on a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Changes to the spatial extent of sea ice simultaneously permits and endangers maritime operations, as well as impacts current debates over maritime boundaries, presenting an interesting challenge for international law. Sea ice is not a stationary object; it moves through time and space in response to the physical forces of wind, ocean currents, and heating. It has a tangible, material and substantive role in contestations over territory, resources and marine boundaries in both the Beaufort and Bering Seas. We suggest here that sea ice’s material nature in these marine regions continuously challenges stationary conceptions of law in complex and sometimes contradictory ways. Building on recent work on the human geographies of sea ice, the dynamic field of legal geography and recent contributions in ocean-space geography, we outline how the dynamism of sea ice could influence notions of boundary, resources and climate change in ocean-spaces of the greater Arctic region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 239-253
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1340847
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Author-Name: Rob Huebert
Author-X-Name-First: Rob
Author-X-Name-Last: Huebert
Title: Drawing Boundaries in the Beaufort Sea: Different Visions/Different Needs
Abstract:
The Arctic is in the process of massive transformation. From a changing environment due to the impacts of climate change; to new economic opportunities and development; to new environmental pressures; and to new geopolitical realties. Within this transformation are changing borders. This article examines how borders are being altered in the Beaufort Sea. It focuses on three distinct types of borders—state borders; land claim borders and ecosystem. While state borders—based on the Westphalian state principles remain the dominate form of borders, they are being transformed through their extension into the maritime domain. However, at the same time, there is also a growing importance and strength of new borders being created in the Beaufort Sea by Land Claims agreement and new environmental concerns. This analysis will examine how these border transformations are occurring and interacting in the Beaufort Sea.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 203-223
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1348908
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Author-Name: Mia M. Bennett
Author-X-Name-First: Mia M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett
Title: Singapore: The “Global City” in a Globalizing Arctic
Abstract:
Singapore’s Arctic interests are typically explained by its limited regional market and the government’s stakes in shipping, maritime infrastructure, and global governance. Yet the city-state’s polar pursuits also reflect the government’s strategy of crafting a global national identity in step with its expansion of overseas economic activities. In this article, based on reviews of government speeches, documents, and press releases, observations at Arctic development conferences, and expert interviews, I first describe three regional shifts in the Arctic that have made Singapore’s involvement possible: the globalization of the Arctic economy, a transition from national government to global governance, and the production of the Arctic region as an investment frontier. Second, I elucidate the export-oriented industrial drivers of Singapore’s Arctic interests. These have led to the economy’s deterritorialization, which state discourses projecting Singapore as a “Global City” support. Third, I analyze how these two transformations—the Arctic’s globalization and Singapore’s deterritorialization—have together created an opportunity for the Singaporean government to “jump scale” in Arctic cooperation, specifically by shedding light on its partnerships with indigenous peoples’ organizations. As climate change accelerates, the Singaporean government’s Arctic efforts suggest that it sees the increasingly maritime region as a new scalar fix for overseas investment that it is securing through unconventional partnerships while living up to its quest to view the world as its hinterland. Singapore’s involvement in the Arctic may globalize the region’s economy, but it may also deepen northern dependence on place-based sectors like natural resources and shipping.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 289-310
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1367708
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Author-Name: Heather Nicol
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicol
Title: Rescaling Borders of Investment: The Arctic Council and the Economic Development Policies
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This paper explores the developments that led to the creation of the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) by the Arctic Council, and its relationship to the larger structures of global investment as represented by the World Economic Forum’s Arctic Investment. It argues that the prioritization of environment, and the construction of a regional “map” based primarily upon environmental cooperation positions development as a lower order problem for regional actors to resolve and leads to a particular positioning of economic activities and networks at the regional scale. What this means for the scale of regional cooperation, especially in light of larger Arctic investment initiatives such as the World Economic Forum’s Arctic Investment Protocol (AIP), will be considered.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 225-238
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402192
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Author-Name: Mark Lusk
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Lusk
Author-Name: Griselda Villalobos
Author-X-Name-First: Griselda
Author-X-Name-Last: Villalobos
Title: The of Eva: A Mexican Refugee in El Paso
Abstract: As a result of the drug wars in Mexico and the associated widespread violence and lawlessness, hundreds of undocumented refugees have crossed the border into the United States to escape physical violence, death threats, extortion, kidnapping and other dangers in Mexico. The authors have been conducting in-depth interviews of Mexican refugees. Of those, Eva stands out as the most eloquent and poignant expression of injustice, suffering, fear, and invisibility. Her witness to the struggle of refugees from violence is told as a testimonio—a style of oral history that has deep roots in Latin America and which is characterized by a plea for justice.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 17-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.676321
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Author-Name: Darrin Rogers
Author-X-Name-First: Darrin
Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers
Author-Name: Katrina Meza
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Meza
Author-Name: Jennifer Sibley
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Sibley
Author-Name: Elida Decker
Author-X-Name-First: Elida
Author-X-Name-Last: Decker
Title: Sexual Abuse at the US–Mexico Border: Exploratory Analysis of the Borderlife Archive
Abstract: Hispanic populations in US border regions have been under-represented in the quantitative sexual abuse research literature, despite indications (including from ongoing qualitative studies) that sexual abuse may be prevalent, with unique characteristics in borderlands communities. The current study explored sexual abuse at the US–Mexico border through the Borderlife Archive, a collection of over 10,000 personal narratives from interviews conducted on the South Texas border. Over 100 incidents of sexual abuse were spontaneously reported in interviews on unrelated topics. The incidents showed broad patterns of abuse familiar from larger North American studies. In addition, unique factors related to life in the borderlands were reported in the narratives, such as the involvement of immigration and employment status in abuse situations. Discussion and recommendations for future research and public policy are offered.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-15
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.676322
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Author-Name: Gleb Yarovoy
Author-X-Name-First: Gleb
Author-X-Name-Last: Yarovoy
Title: The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 109-110
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.676323
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Author-Name: Elina Ihamäki
Author-X-Name-First: Elina
Author-X-Name-Last: Ihamäki
Title: Human Rights and Migration. Trafficking for Forced Labour
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 107-108
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.676783
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Author-Name: Franklin Knight
Author-X-Name-First: Franklin
Author-X-Name-Last: Knight
Title: Drugged Out. Globalization and Jamaica's Resilience to Drug Trafficking
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 105-106
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.676784
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Author-Name: Anasua Chaudhury
Author-X-Name-First: Anasua
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaudhury
Title: Remembering the Communal Violence of 1950 in Hooghly
Abstract: Are borders real or metaphors is the question addressed in this article. While arguing that borders are not just lines in the landscape but that they actively shape the societies and cultures they enclose, this article unravels the stories of three Muslim women of Hooghly district of West Bengal, an eastern state of India. The main purpose of the study is to enquire about how women negotiate borders—borders of sect, community, patriarchy, and of conflicts not only in their own land but also in an alien land away from their homeland. The essay analyzes the self-representation of the Muslims once displaced and focuses on their narratives of victimhood, which tends to be framed in rhetoric of Hindu–Muslim differences.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 45-59
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687206
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Author-Name: Anjuman Begum
Author-X-Name-First: Anjuman
Author-X-Name-Last: Begum
Title: Women and the Heat of the Barbed Wire
Abstract: The article deals with physical borders, which go on to create mental borders between people living in the area of the West Garo Hills. The border is between the tribal Garos and the non-tribal Muslims. Each community looks upon the other with extreme suspicion, thereby always making violence a possibility. This article discusses women's lives in the borderlines of the West Garo Hills and reflects on their sheer resilience, silent tears and a burning desire to put a step outside the line called border. It also reflects their sheer energy and will to overcome all inequity and injustice.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 73-82
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687207
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Author-Name: Paula Banerjee
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Banerjee
Title: Bengal Border Revisited
Abstract: This article deals with the notion of how borders have a penchant for becoming a marker of security. The moment borders become securitized the question of flows across them acquires particular importance. In the colonial period this was marked by concern over dacoits, thugees and hooligans who crossed the district border at will. In the post-colonial period concern remains over undocumented migrants and whether their arrival threatens the nation form. Against this background the article addresses the notion of flows and increasing violence at the borders, fencing as the most recent marker of such violence and how women and the evolution of their relationship to the border is shaped through the discourses of violence.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 31-44
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687208
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Author-Name: Sahana Basavapatna
Author-X-Name-First: Sahana
Author-X-Name-Last: Basavapatna
Title: Chins in Mizoram: The Case of Borders Making Brothers Illegal
Abstract: The Chins migrating to India are variously labeled “refugees,” “economic migrants,” “illegal foreigners” and “stateless.” This essay attempts to understand how the borders drawn following the independence of India and Burma from British rule have transformed the relationship between the Chins and the Mizos in contemporary times. This is important in the context of shared ethnic ties and the belief in common descent as well as the political, economic and social factors that affected their relationship. Further this essay also attempts to explore the existing perceptions about Chins and how their migration can feed into the immigration and/or refugee policy in India.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 61-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687209
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Author-Name: Sumona DasGupta
Author-X-Name-First: Sumona
Author-X-Name-Last: DasGupta
Title: Borderlands and Borderlines: Re-negotiating Boundaries in Jammu and Kashmir
Abstract: This article identifies the term border not just as a physical boundary that separates the sovereign writ of one state from another, but also as another fault line generated or accentuated by a conflict—a line that separates “us” from “them.” This article explores some of the fault lines/borderlines in the iconography of the contemporary conflict in Jammu and Kashmir using gender as a cross-cutting variable rather than as a separate, add-on issue.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 83-93
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687210
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Author-Name: Anuradha Jamwal
Author-X-Name-First: Anuradha
Author-X-Name-Last: Jamwal
Author-Name: Shuchismita
Author-X-Name-First:
Author-X-Name-Last: Shuchismita
Title: Women's Voices from Jammu and Kashmir
Abstract: The paper focuses on the India–Pakistan border at Jammu and Kashmir. Through narratives, the paper argues that violence and victimhood at the borders do not stop at the borders but percolate deep into the nation-form, in the process adding to the gendered dimension of the Indian nation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 95-104
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.687533
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Author-Name: Paula Banerjee
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Banerjee
Author-Name: Anusua Choudhury
Author-X-Name-First: Anusua
Author-X-Name-Last: Choudhury
Title: Introduction: Women in Indian Borderlands
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 27-29
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2012.711012
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Author-Name: Todd Hataley
Author-X-Name-First: Todd
Author-X-Name-Last: Hataley
Author-Name: Christian Leuprecht
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Leuprecht
Title: Determinants of Cross-Border Cooperation
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 317-328
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1482776
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Author-Name: Seth Pipkin
Author-X-Name-First: Seth
Author-X-Name-Last: Pipkin
Title: Cashable Value: Social Capital and Practical Habits in the Analysis of Collaborative Cross-Border Economic Development
Abstract:
Today’s climate of heightened border security has intensified a key challenge found on border regions: coordination across institutional regimes. For 30 years or more a popular concept for explaining groups’ abilities to handle such challenges has been social capital and its variants, such as collective efficacy. While in many respects useful, these concepts are hindered in their explanatory power due to the lack of precision in their definition and a misplaced analogy of group capacities to capital stocks. This paper therefore takes a dissenting view from the special issue’s premise that questions of cross-border collaboration are fully amenable to a social capital-based framework. Rather, it aims to contribute to the borderlands studies research community’s tools for moving beyond some widely-acknowledged limitations to social capital frameworks by introducing complementary concepts and methods that emerge from an historical ethnography of two US-Mexico border city pairs whose economic fortunes diverged after the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Although capital stocks cannot account for this divergence, local practices and habits of business and political elites’ policy implementation do, suggesting that researchers interested in these topics need to broaden their methods and concepts to help deal with the contradictory challenges of liberalized commerce and heightened security that today’s border regions face.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 329-350
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1197789
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Author-Name: Daniel Covarrubias
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Covarrubias
Title: Analyzing how a Social Base Impacts Economic Development and Competitiveness Strategies in a Cross-border Context: the Case of Region Laredo
Abstract:
It has been said that, “borders are the scars of history” (Schuman n.d. French Statesman, Founder of European Union), and while that may be true, borders might also be considered as living labs in which social interactions and the ability to coexist ultimately shape economic, social, and political prosperity. The socially-driven concepts of Social Capital, and more recently Social Innovation, are the basis of extensive research across a broad scope of academic arenas. From clusters (Wolfe 2002. Knowledge, Learning and Social Capital in Ontario’s ICT Clusters. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, May (http://www.utoronto.ca/progris/pdffiles/Ontario%27s%20ICT%20Clusters.pdf)) to health care (Global Health Innovation Guidebook), Social Capital and Social Innovation are increasingly considered as tools central to the creation of improved living environments and strong communities. The objective of this paper is to explore the impact that Social Capital and Social Innovation (a Social Base) have on economic development and competitiveness strategies in a cross-border context. To this end and through the application of our analytical framework, we set out to test how these social dynamics and links impact economic development and competitiveness strategies, specifically within Region Laredo.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 351-370
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1270168
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Author-Name: Robert Knippschild
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Knippschild
Author-Name: Anja Schmotz
Author-X-Name-First: Anja
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmotz
Title: Border Regions as Disturbed Functional Areas: Analyses on Cross-border Interrelations and Quality of Life along the German–Polish Border
Abstract:
Border regions are commonly perceived as disadvantaged areas marked by peripheral location. Most of them are indeed suffering from the distance to political decision centers and economic core regions. The main reason for this drawback can be found in barrier effects caused by the presence of state borders, leading to a truncation of potential catchment areas. This paper attempts to bring together two different approaches: a spatially oriented approach focusing on cross-border flows and a sociological survey on the perceptions of the border region’s inhabitants. Based on a research project on quality of life and on cross-border interrelations in the southern part of the German–Polish border region, the paper provides a first set of data in order to verify whether cross-border flows increase during the process of gradual opening of state borders. It gives an overview of cross-border interrelations in the fields of demography, employment, economy, education, and tourism. Moreover, it includes the inhabitants’ perception of border effects and their motivations for border crossings, differentiating between the response patterns of German and Polish interviewees. The paper closes with policy options for regional development policy in the investigated border region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 371-391
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195703
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Author-Name: Jarosław Jańczak
Author-X-Name-First: Jarosław
Author-X-Name-Last: Jańczak
Title: Integration De-scaled. Symbolic Manifestations of Cross-border and European Integration in
Abstract:
Cross-border cooperation nowadays plays a crucial role in Europe and is very attractive for the local authorities of border units and for border communities. It is especially visible in border twin towns—settlements located directly on a state border, and having a similar partner on the other side. This article aims at filling a gap that exists in border studies by answering the question of how the idea of European integration and cross-border integration is symbolically manifested in the border relations of these towns, and how border territorial units employ this in their development strategies, by scale change. The research is conducted in the context of collective efficacy theory, with symbols representing specific ideas considered to be explanatory elements belonging to two variables stimulating change: spatial dynamic and supportive institutions. It is asserted that border conflict and cooperation legacies frame the context for symbolic policies, alongside the duration of EU membership. The assumptions are verified against actual objects in public spaces, as well as in non-material symbols. This leads to the identification of three models of cross-border symbolism and also of the phenomenon of border re-demarcation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 393-413
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226925
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Author-Name: Emily Lange
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Lange
Title: Cross-border Cooperation in Action: Taking a Closer Look at the Galicia–North of Portugal European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation
Abstract:
The proposed hypothesis of this Special Issue is that the degree to which cross-border cooperation happens, results to some extent from the capacity the border community and/or a variety of social actors who exert some sort of influence over territorial matters have to reduce transaction costs. Cross-border cooperation has been going on for decades, and a lot has been theorized on the matter. This paper does not propose to contribute significantly towards the theoretical debate but to present some empirical conclusions using the Portugal–Spanish border, more specifically the Galicia–North of Portugal European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation. In this case study we consider the interaction between social actors and border community and how certain transaction costs have been addressed, seeking to identify variations in border effects and what has been the border community response. The debate will center on the aspect of the networks emerging over this border and their interaction with the borderland communities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 415-431
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195701
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Author-Name: Todd Hataley
Author-X-Name-First: Todd
Author-X-Name-Last: Hataley
Author-Name: Scott J. Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Scott J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Title: Collective Efficacy Across Borders: The Case of Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont
Abstract:
This article argues that cross-border communities can engage with one another to reduce the transaction costs associated with a securitized border. Using Collective Efficacy Theory to frame this argument, we propose that there are certain effectual variables that are important to successful cross-border community engagement. The paper concludes with some observations about the nature of borders, including the fragmented nature of international borders, and the role of competing values, norms, and discourse in defining the border as an institution.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 433-444
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1332487
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Author-Name: Ekaterina Mikhailova
Author-X-Name-First: Ekaterina
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikhailova
Title: Collaborative Problem-Solving in the Cross-Border Context: Learning from Paired Local Communities along the Russian Border
Abstract:
The article investigates governance structure and information sharing as managerial tools utilized by borderland communities to solve local problems coordinately. Focusing on three case studies of transfrontier intermunicipal cooperation on the Russian-Norwegian, Russian-Finnish and Russian-Chinese borders gave a chance to illustrate that selected instruments provide heterogeneous results in the cross-border context in terms of dependence on socio-economic and cultural circumstances of each locus and in the process of public value creation. Testing hypotheses revealed that governance structures of adjacent border municipalities tend to adjust to each other regardless the milieu, as well as majority of local mass media, tend to initiate collaboration with similar organizations across the border. However, these initiatives frequently remain unsuccessful as information sharing is a region-specific variable that relies on local communication culture, understanding of mass media mission and information production. Applying a ranging technique allowed visualization of carried out research.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 445-464
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195702
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Author-Name: Kean C. K. Ng
Author-X-Name-First: Kean C. K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ng
Title: Ugandan Borders: Theatre of Life and Death
Abstract:
This article analyzes the resilience of informal cross-border trade among the Bakiga people, living in the Kabale region. It argues that the state and its borders do not only frame economic realities, but are an intrinsic, at times inconvenient and at times profitable, part of cosmology of life on the border. Ugandan border-dwellers and traders are mostly not resisting the state, but living with and using the “system” as best as they can. The state is not always a foreign hegemon, but a frame of life.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 465-486
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222879
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Author-Name: Liz Przybylski
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: Przybylski
Title: Customs and Duty: Indigenous Hip Hop and the US–Canada Border
Abstract:
The production of Indigenous hip hop on both sides of the 49th parallel reveals a cultural complexity far beyond a stereotypical melting pot to the south and mosaic to the north. This article demonstrates multiple similarities in Canadian and USAmerican Indigenous hip hop through a parallel analysis of recent music videos by Canadian Cree and Saulteaux rapper Drezus and USAmerican Lakota rapper Frank Waln. Like earlier hip hop that inspires it, Indigenous hip hop on both sides of the border uses place as a central part of its messaging. These videos, with parallel visual narratives, demonstrate how place-based meanings are expressed around the borderlands through the fusion of traditional music into rap music. Building from hip hop scholarship on racially-coded evocations of place, this article argues that referencing place entails more than naming geographies. I analyze three overlapping functions of place: establishing a sense of connection between artist and land, conveying a specific type of authenticity, and forging intergenerational connections. Together, these underline the ongoing relevance of transnational exchange, particularly as relevant to Indigenous popular music. Place in these two contexts offers an anchoring function, yet continues to demonstrate a fluidity upon which artists draw for their music videos. Disparate political possibilities and social realities affect the ways that artists mark connections to land, community, and culture. The way place functions across the border explains how music videos are shaping public discourses around land rights, environmentalism, and global Indigeneity within and across the borders of the US and Canada.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 487-506
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222880
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Author-Name: Junaid Rana
Author-X-Name-First: Junaid
Author-X-Name-Last: Rana
Title: Undoing Border Imperialism
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 507-508
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174618
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Author-Name: Decha Tangseefa
Author-X-Name-First: Decha
Author-X-Name-Last: Tangseefa
Title: Border Economies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region,
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 509-510
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1204935
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Author-Name: Junxi Qian
Author-X-Name-First: Junxi
Author-X-Name-Last: Qian
Title: Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling Over Dilemmas in China’s Southwest Frontier
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 511-512
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1201428
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Title: Corrigendum
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: i-i
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1302645
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Author-Name: Matthew Longo
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Longo
Title: A “21 Century Border”? Cooperative Border Controls in the US and EU after 9/11
Abstract:
Since September 11, 2001 there has been redoubled interest in border security. This article examines trends in bordering in the US after 9/11, following two landmark agreements, the Beyond the Border Agreement with Canada (2011) and the 21st century Border Management Accord with Mexico (2010). This research reveals how US borders are getting thicker and are increasingly bi-national. First, borders are getting thicker infrastructurally, both in terms of their expansion inland and via increased surveillance. In this way, borderlines are expanding into zones. Second, there is a concomitant move towards the co-location and cross-designation of border forces across the border, thus making borders jointly-administered. These developments mirror a similar shift in thinking at the external frontier of the EU. In this way, contemporary bordering practice at the US perimeter is participant to a larger global trend of neighboring states behaving as partners in a joint effort at eliminating threats common to globalized mobility—immigrants, smugglers, terrorists—rather than adversaries linked by a thin line of truce. The article concludes by considering how the 21st century Border is not merely a space where states decide to “re-border,” but rather co-border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 187-202
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1124243
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Author-Name: Dirk Godenau
Author-X-Name-First: Dirk
Author-X-Name-Last: Godenau
Author-Name: Ana López-Sala
Author-X-Name-First: Ana
Author-X-Name-Last: López-Sala
Title: Multi-layered Migration Deterrence and Technology in Spanish Maritime Border Management
Abstract:
Until 2006 Spain witnessed growing irregular maritime immigration from the African continent. This intensification in irregular migration has led to the design and application of a migration control policy whose instrumental and institutional structures are becoming increasingly complex. Irregular immigration at maritime borders has been addressed through what we have referred to and characterized as a multi-layered deterrence strategy which has been gradually implemented and upgraded along the main entry points and migration corridors. The Spanish strategy is tightly intertwined with the unfolding of the EU Integrated Border Management approach and combines higher inputs of surveillance and border control technologies with multilateral cooperation agreements reached with transit and origin countries. High-tech border surveillance increases interception probabilities, but effective migration deterrence is conditioned by high expulsion rates once the border has been crossed. It is in the task of border implementation that technology appears as one of the pillars of the control structure and where its effect on deterrence depends on its embeddedness in a mix of instruments and actions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 151-169
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174602
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Author-Name: Federica Infantino
Author-X-Name-First: Federica
Author-X-Name-Last: Infantino
Title: State-bound Visa Policies and Europeanized Practices. Comparing EU Visa Policy Implementation in Morocco
Abstract:
This contribution focuses on the European border viewed from its margins: from the perspective of the western Mediterranean, specifically Morocco, the furthest western country of the area whose name, al-Maghrib, actually means “the west” in Arabic. It does so by tackling the bureaucratic enactment of the European border that is achieved by implementing EU visa policy. By delivering Schengen visa, bordering already occurs at consular windows in countries of departure. Hence I conceptualize visa policy as bordering policy and visa policy implementation as bordering practice. This article sheds ethnographic light on the making of EU visa policy on the ground by comparing the consulates of Belgium, France, and Italy in Casablanca. It argues that EU visa policy on the ground is state-bound. The analysis highlights visa policy as context-oriented: the means of implementing control must be tailored to its specific context. It shows the historical roots of the bi-lateral relations as factors differentiating this context. The article shows that Moroccan applicants learn cross-national differences and cope with shifting visa policies on the ground. Fieldwork exposes the strategic choices of consulates as an elite practice as well, and cross-national differences that encourage such practices. This empirically sound analysis criticizes the notion that Europeanization of visa policy implies diminishing cross-national differences in the day-to-day implementation and reveals instead Europeanized practices like those of coping with Schengen’s Europe.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 171-186
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174603
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Author-Name: Estela Schindel
Author-X-Name-First: Estela
Author-X-Name-Last: Schindel
Title: Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature
Abstract:
The sophisticated technology deployed for border control and surveillance at the EU borders poses a sharp contrast to the main causes for the deaths occurring in border areas, mainly due to abandonment to the elements. However, it is precisely the technology deployed at the borders which paradoxically pushes illegalized travelers to zones of greater exposure to “nature.” The article explores from a cultural-sociological perspective the new configurations of technology, “culture,” and “nature” that are emerging through the EU border regime. Drawing on Agamben's category of bare life, it claims that illegalized travelers are displaced into a sphere of mere biological survival. A content and discourse analysis of the narratives attached to technological products developed for border surveillance and control reveals a symbolical construction of the illegalized traveler as contiguous to “nature” while technology is depicted as if deprived of agency. Technology and nature are often perceived as neutral, ahistorical, and value-free, but are always socially and historically constructed. This construction expresses a certain understanding of the border scenario and an underlying definition of what is “human.” The paradox between the humanitarian and the securitization paradigms is thus only apparent: both rely on the construction of the illegalized travelers as bare life. A global biopolitical schism along the boundary between “nature” and “culture”—analogous to what Latour called the “great divide” between “moderns” and “others”—is being reproduced but also disputed and negotiated along the EU borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 219-234
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174604
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Author-Name: Francesca Zampagni
Author-X-Name-First: Francesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Zampagni
Title: Unpacking the Schengen Visa Regime. A Study on Bureaucrats and Discretion in an Italian Consulate
Abstract:
The article focuses on European Consulates as key institutions in the filtering of prospective travelers to the Schengen area. Through qualitative research at the Italian Consulate in Dakar, the article examines the administrative practices surrounding Schengen visas. The article retraces the path travelers have to face to travel with proper documents toward the Schengen area, identifying and analyzing the role of consular bureaucracy in the implementation of the common visa policy at the local level. It will be ascertained whether the notion of street-level bureaucrats can be applied to Consular officials in their daily routine as well as investigating practices of discretion in the decision-making process of visa issuance.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 251-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174605
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Author-Name: Vassilis S. Tsianos
Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsianos
Author-Name: Brigitta Kuster
Author-X-Name-First: Brigitta
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuster
Title: Eurodac in Times of Bigness: The Power of Big Data within the Emerging European IT Agency
Abstract:
Private and government sectors are operating hand in hand for biometric identity assurance solutions to meet security requirements at borders, for elections or for the private sector. Our paper will explore Eurodac, a large biometric information database concerning asylum applications and irregular border crossings, as part of the emerging European Big Data Economy. Drawing on the concept of the digital border and of the surveillance assemblage (Haggerty, Kevin D., and Richard V. Ericson. 2000. The Surveillant Assemblage. British Journal of Sociology 51, no. 4: 605–22) we understand Eurodac not only as a technological border but as inflected by social, symbolic, organizational and juridical cultures, practices, and imaginaries that are beyond the literal realm of the electronic space. Our paper investigates the dynamics of big data in the context of the integration of Eurodac within the larger framework of the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area freedom, security and justice (EU-LISA). EU-LISA is the operational platform of three large-scale European databases with regards to foreigners and their mobility within and towards Europe, namely Eurodac, the Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the Visa Information System (VIS). This paper tries to outline some of the problems brought about when processing big amounts of data for the purpose of European immigration and identification policies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 235-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174606
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Author-Name: Jeremy Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 267-268
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174610
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Author-Name: Kathleen Staudt
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Staudt
Title: Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren’t Making Us Safer
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 269-270
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174611
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Author-Name: Elin Palm
Author-X-Name-First: Elin
Author-X-Name-Last: Palm
Title: Conflicting Interests in the Development of a Harmonized EU e-Passport
Abstract:
Identity and evidence of identity in the form of identification documents, passwords, and codes are key features of the information age and identity infrastructures which are essential in delivering public services and in executing border-control measures. Although increasingly sophisticated, such infrastructures and digital identities are vulnerable to exploitation. Identity theft, offline as well as online, is a key concern for all law enforcement. Fraudulent use of passports from the European Union (EU) is prevalent and has been rather constant over the past few years despite enhanced security mechanisms in EU passports. In response, a harmonized EU-wide e-passport is currently under development, aimed at enhancing the security of identification processes and at stifling identity theft. In this paper, an assessment is undertaken, investigating ethical implications of the novel EU passport regime and how different stakeholders may be affected. It is argued that assessments should include the effects on third country nationals and not only on EU members.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 203-218
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1181982
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Author-Name: Albert Kraler
Author-X-Name-First: Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: Kraler
Author-Name: Maegan Hendow
Author-X-Name-First: Maegan
Author-X-Name-Last: Hendow
Author-Name: Ferruccio Pastore
Author-X-Name-First: Ferruccio
Author-X-Name-Last: Pastore
Title: Introduction: Multiplication and Multiplicity—Transformations of Border Control
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 145-149
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1201431
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Author-Name: Kostia Lennes
Author-X-Name-First: Kostia
Author-X-Name-Last: Lennes
Title: Constructing, Negotiating, and Performing Chicano Manhood as a Borderland Masculinity
Abstract:
In this article, I focus on the construction, negotiation and performance of Chicano masculinity and, more specifically, on its connection with the US-Mexico borderland. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s work on the borderland, this article introduces the term “borderland masculinity” as a concept to characterize the embedment of borderland subjectivity (performed through mestizaje in Anzaldúa’s approach) in Chicanos’ masculine identity. To achieve this, I discuss and compare various articles that illustrate different ways of constructing, negotiating and performing what I have called the “borderland masculinity.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257364
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Author-Name: Maria de Fátima Amante
Author-X-Name-First: Maria de Fátima
Author-X-Name-Last: Amante
Title: Performing Borders: Exceptions, Security and Symbolism in Portuguese Borders Control
Abstract:
The paper addresses the increasing importance of securitization processes within the framework of the Schengen Convention by dealing with the specific situation of “exceptional border closing.” The case is that of the Portuguese territory, which was closed in 2010 for a major political event, the Lisbon NATO Summit. In specific situations like this one, the border is a theatrical stage on which both the state and people are actors playing to national citizens and the international community. Through the analysis of this specific case I will discuss some of the circumstances and strategies that states are using to re-border, the political consequences regarding state sovereignty over its polity and territory and some implications regarding mobility rights. Throughout the paper I will discuss how reinstating internal border controls has raised some concerns over the Schengen regime itself. The data are the result of intensive research into the Portuguese state’s discourse on security and borders, an analysis of media coverage of the 2010 Lisbon NATO Summit and fieldwork conducted during the summit.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 17-30
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1270169
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Author-Name: Peter Hakim Justin
Author-X-Name-First: Peter Hakim
Author-X-Name-Last: Justin
Author-Name: Lotje De Vries
Author-X-Name-First: Lotje
Author-X-Name-Last: De Vries
Title: Governing Unclear Lines: Local Boundaries as a (Re)source of Conflict in South Sudan
Abstract:
South Sudan’s administrative boundaries stem from the colonial period. Since it gained independence in 2011, subsequent rounds of reshuffling of the political system, internal borders, and power relations have been a source of confusion, elite manipulation, and conflict throughout the country. This paper explores the impact of this confusion by focusing on multiple shifting linkages between administrative boundaries and identities and shows how the mobilization of ethnic identities has become central to territorial claims and creating territorial borders. We use three local conflicts in Central Equatoria State to illustrate how claims of belonging and entitlement are being used by elites for economic, political, and socio-cultural gains. The three cases also show how such manipulation increases the likelihood of ethnic division and conflict. Following the decision by the government in 2015 to increase the number of states from 10 to 28 in October 2015, further manipulation of borders and identities is likely to occur and could result in more violence, ethnic-based conflict, and human suffering.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 31-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294497
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Author-Name: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Changwe
Author-X-Name-Last: Nshimbi
Title: Life in the Fringes: Economic and Sociocultural Practices in the Zambia–Malawi–Mozambique Borderlands in Comparative Perspective
Abstract:
This paper examines the cross-border sociocultural and economic activities of the inhabitants of the contiguous border areas of Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique (ZMM), in order to compare perceptions towards each of these practices by various actors including informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), ordinary inhabitants of the borderland communities of these countries, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and state and local authorities, among others. The specific sociocultural practices in question include the accessing of social services, fulfillment of sociocultural needs/obligations, and the economic activities, informal cross-border trade. Legislations, policy reports and scientific publications are thoroughly reviewed and interviews with key policymakers, ICBTs, and locals are conducted. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected from the interviews is also performed. Various actors generally regard accessing social services (such as education and health) across borders by nationals of neighboring countries as normal and “acceptable” practices while some forms of informal cross-border trade are regarded “unacceptable.” However, both sociocultural and economic actors engage in cross-border activities out of necessity, convenience, for survival, and as practices which they, being inhabitants of the borderlands, have traditionally followed. Representatives of state and local governments in the adjacent provinces of the contiguous borderlands should form transboundary coordinating committees through which to establish sustainable and effective burden-sharing and service provision systems, to meet the socioeconomic needs of borderland inhabitants.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 47-70
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1300780
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Author-Name: Hans-Joachim Bürkner
Author-X-Name-First: Hans-Joachim
Author-X-Name-Last: Bürkner
Title: Scaling and Bordering: An Elusive Relationship?
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The emergence of theoretical approaches towards bordering and borderscapes entailed altered perspectives on scale. Borders are understood now to be shaped in variable manners by multiple and heterogeneous agents. However, the particular ways in which scales are continually created and rearranged through bordering have only occasionally been analyzed. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate a deeper contemplation of the emergence of border-related scales and related procedures of scaling. Starting from empirical observations of cross-border cooperation which exemplify the complexity of agent-driven scaling, the question is raised of how more theoretical explicitness might be achieved to account for the scalar implications of bordering. In particular, interdisciplinary scale theory is discussed for its potential contribution. An important task for future bordering studies is finally identified in the analysis of micro-scales.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 71-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1300926
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Author-Name: Loay Salhieh
Author-X-Name-First: Loay
Author-X-Name-Last: Salhieh
Author-Name: Metri Mdanat
Author-X-Name-First: Metri
Author-X-Name-Last: Mdanat
Author-Name: Mohammed Al-Shboul
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammed
Author-X-Name-Last: Al-Shboul
Author-Name: Ghazi Samawi
Author-X-Name-First: Ghazi
Author-X-Name-Last: Samawi
Title: Transportation Landed Cost as a Barrier to Intra-regional Trade
Abstract:
Barriers to trade are known to be large due to visible and invisible practices, which directly affect transportation landed cost. The intra-regional trade statistics clearly show the Israeli domination over Jordanian intra-regional trade with the West Bank (Palestine). The aim of this study was to show that the Government of Israel is imposing a non-tariff measure (NTM) on imports to the West Bank through King Hussein Bridge which is a higher landed cost than imports to the West Bank from Israel (through check points), which is evidence that the NTM is trade-restrictive.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 89-103
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1315606
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Author-Name: Jopi Nyman
Author-X-Name-First: Jopi
Author-X-Name-Last: Nyman
Title: Borders, Borderscapes, and Border-Crossing Romances in Contemporary Migrant Writing in Finland by TaoLin and Arvi Perttu
Abstract:
This essay examines the crossing of national and cultural borders in contemporary fictional narratives by first-generation immigrants in Finland. While immigrant writing has a long-standing status in countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany, the situation is different in Finland where mass immigration is historically more recent. Yet recent years have seen the publication of several novels, autobiographies, and anthologies by migrants with focus on border crossings and adaptation to a new life. This essay examines two recent novels written in Finnish by immigrants to Finland. Through an analysis of TaoLin’s Suomen taivaan alla [Under the Finnish Sky] (2008. Turku: Enostone), the first novel by its Chinese author, and Skumbria by the established migrant novelist Arvi Perttu (2011. Helsinki: Like) with roots in Russian Karelia, I will discuss the role that borders and borderscapes play in these two novels telling of cross-border romances between Finns and non-Finnish migrants. By paying particular attention to their use of the interethnic romance plot as a narrative convention characteristic of immigrant fiction, and its role in constructing and negotiating new Finnish identities, the essay will address the border crossings of the texts and place them in the context of nation and the conventional privileging of Finnishness. I will suggest that the two texts provide markedly different perspectives on the issue, TaoLin’s novel as a pedagogical and Perttu’s a performative narrative of nation. The paper shows how cultural encounters lead to the formation of new borderscapes as signs of emergent migrant identities that reflect on Finnishness and its transformation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 105-120
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1315608
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Author-Name: Jane Hanley
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanley
Title: Armada and Arranz’s Mobile Frontiers: The Problem of Travel Writing on the Mexico–US Border
Abstract:
Mexico, via its contentious border zone with the United States, operates within a global discourse of violence, trouble, and the trafficking of drugs, sex, and other fantasies. In El rumor de la frontera Alfonso Armada (text) and Corina Arranz (photography) travel the Mexican–US border, site par excellence of the confluence of global capital, economic and cultural difference, and mobility. The representation of violence is just one process among many which come into play in the global image of place, into which travel writing can offer a window. Using travel narratives, the visitor can solidify existing relations of inequality, the material terms of the narrated encounter can disrupt expectations and resist the interpretive schema of the writer, or both effects can mingle together. El rumor de la frontera is discussed as an example of these multiple modes in contemporary travel writing, with a focus on the effects of historical and intertextual reference.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 121-136
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1300779
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Author-Name: Lauren Derby
Author-X-Name-First: Lauren
Author-X-Name-Last: Derby
Title: On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 137-139
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267591
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Author-Name: Olivier Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: The Edge of the World. A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 141-143
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294026
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Author-Name: Shuaiying Cao
Author-X-Name-First: Shuaiying
Author-X-Name-Last: Cao
Title: Chinese Frontier Politics
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 145-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294496
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Author-Name: Tiina Sotkasiira
Author-X-Name-First: Tiina
Author-X-Name-Last: Sotkasiira
Title: Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia: Women, Migration, and the Diaspora
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 147-148
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294498
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Author-Name: Rodrigo Bueno Lacy
Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo Bueno
Author-X-Name-Last: Lacy
Title: The Cartographic State: Maps, Territory and the Origins of Sovereignty
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 399-400
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1115736
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Author-Name: Ahmad El-Atrash
Author-X-Name-First: Ahmad
Author-X-Name-Last: El-Atrash
Title: Implications of the Segregation Wall on the Two-state Solution
Abstract:
The two-state scenario is celebrated as the feasible solution to the geo-political conflict that spawns Palestine/Israel. The final status negotiation items between Palestinians and Israelis based on the two-state solution are mainly borders, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, water, and Palestinian refugees. This article argues that the Segregation Wall that Israel started building in the West Bank in 2002 has negative implications for the feasibility of the two-state solution, and would lead to unsustainable outcomes, especially for the Palestinian statehood. This article aims at unveiling the anticipated adverse reverberations of the Segregation Wall on the two-state solution by parsing the main items deferred to final status negotiations. The research methodology in this article used mixed research methods, drawing from both quantitative and qualitative approaches and using data from primary and secondary sources, including field observations, archived research of published documents by state and non-state actors, along with mapping interpretations using Geographic Information Systems. The article starts by introducing the current predicaments and by defining the Segregation Wall; its main elements and characteristics. Afterwards, the article squarely and substantially provides factual analysis and discussion of the anticipated negative implications on the question of borders, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, water, and Palestinian refugees, which are all key final status negotiations issues for a proposed two-state solution.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 365-380
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174594
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Author-Name: Marcello Di Cintio
Author-X-Name-First: Marcello
Author-X-Name-Last: Di Cintio
Title: In Jayyous: Notes from a Palestinian Village
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 281-286
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174595
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Author-Name: Emily Regan Wills
Author-X-Name-First: Emily Regan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wills
Title: Constructing a “Wall”: Discursive Fields, Social Movements, and the Politics of the [Wall/Barrier/Fence]
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The [wall/barrier/fence] built by Israel near the Green Line has produced a new object around which political actors, especially those engaged in contentious politics around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, can use to focus and shape their language and actions. Using the notion of discursive fields, this paper examines the use of the three terms wall, fence, and barrier among social movement actors from Israel, Palestine, and elsewhere to describe the object, arguing that the difference between wall-discourse and fence-discourse marks out separate discursive faces that embody different sets of assumptions about the conflict, relevant actors, and normative priorities. It also argues that, while barrier-discourse tries to stake out a ground outside this binary, its reception by those engaged in other discourses negates the attempt.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 305-318
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174596
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Author-Name: Damien Simonneau
Author-X-Name-First: Damien
Author-X-Name-Last: Simonneau
Title: Chameleon Wall. Inside Two Competing Coalitions of Pro-“Fence” Actors in Israel
Abstract:
Fourteen years after the start of the construction of the “security fence,” the idea of the West Bank Wall as a concrete separation from the Palestinians is a norm for the majority of the Israelis. The “security fence” represents a consensual security solution among the Israeli public opinion that is assumed to have stopped Palestinian attacks in Jewish-Israeli populated areas during the Second Intifada. This article explores the various meanings ascribed to the Wall by certain segments of Israeli society, specifically by pro-fence actors pressuring the Government between 2001 and 2005. Based on the identification of beliefs associated with the fence by such actors, the Wall appears to act as a Chameleon “solving” issues concerning security, identity, territory and separation. Beyond military and control purposes, the Wall also acts as a tool of reassurance on these issues to the Israeli public. The demonstration distinguishes between divergent and convergent meanings ascribed by pro-fence actors to the “security fence.” Nowadays, separation is favored over negotiations and territorial or political compromises. The Wall is thus a consensual public policy for most Israelis. It normalizes their daily life and perceptions of safety, and it moves them away from the Oslo period.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 287-304
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174598
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Author-Name: Reece Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Reece
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones
Author-Name: Christine Leuenberger
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Leuenberger
Author-Name: Emily Regan Wills
Author-X-Name-First: Emily Regan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wills
Title: The West Bank Wall
Abstract:
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignty, territory, and the state in border studies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 271-279
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174599
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Author-Name: Omri Grinberg
Author-X-Name-First: Omri
Author-X-Name-Last: Grinberg
Title: Radical Indeterminancies: Affirmations and Subversions of the Separation Wall—The Case of the Palestinian Children of the Junction
Abstract:
The Children of the Junction are Palestinians, mostly males ranging in age from 3 to 16 years, that slip in-between, below or over the various road blocks and walls that separate Israel from the occupied Palestinian territories. They are trying to make their way from their family’s homes in the territories to major traffic junctions in Israel. At the junctions, they attempt to provide for their families by cleaning windshields, begging for money, or selling various goods. In this paper, I discuss this phenomenon by analyzing two sets of Israeli representations of it: two short documentary films, and two transcripts from parliament sub-committee meetings about them. Following Reece Jones (2012. Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India and Israel. London: Zed Books), I consider how the main function of the spatial constructs of separation between Israeli and Palestinian territories is to establish the separation epistemologically and politically. By acknowledging the failures of Israel’s means of physical and geo-political separation as well as the children’s counter-performances that signify these, I display how these children at certain points subvert and at other points affirm these performances of separation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 319-337
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174600
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Author-Name: Christine Leuenberger
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Leuenberger
Title: Maps as Politics: Mapping the West Bank Barrier
Abstract:
The West Bank Barrier increasingly reshapes Israeli and Palestinian land- and cityscapes. Its physical infrastructure - which consists of walls and an elaborate fence system - is depicted prominently in some maps, but disappears or is omitted in others. This article examines how different Israeli, Palestinian, and international governmental and non-governmental cartographic institutions delineate the West Bank Barrier in maps. The focus is on how various visual and textual devices as well as spatial markers are used to communicate certain social and political concerns, construct particular spatial orders, and portray the West Bank Barrier as either a negligible feature of the landscape or as a significant obstacle to the freedom of movement. The cartographic construction of the barrier in maps shows how cartographers' assumptions concerning its function, the map's target audience, and the adequacy of various national and trans-national cartographic standards may provide an authoritative and legitimate, yet, an inevitably political and locally produced, representation of the West Bank Barrier.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 339-364
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174601
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Author-Name: Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Author-X-Name-First: Debidatta Aurobinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Mahapatra
Title: Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia: Non-State Perspectives
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 395-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1174616
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Author-Name: Nadia Abu-Zahra
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia
Author-X-Name-Last: Abu-Zahra
Author-Name: Philip Leech
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Leech
Author-Name: Leah MacNeil
Author-X-Name-First: Leah
Author-X-Name-Last: MacNeil
Title: Emancipation versus Desecuritization: Resistance and the Israeli Wall in Palestine
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Drawing on extensive fieldwork during the Israeli construction of the Wall in Palestine, we challenge the way in which state-centric—and implicitly hierarchical—discourses around the concept of security (a) underlie the real-world manifestations of restrictive apparatus and practises; and (b) effectively justify discriminate use of these practices along ethno-nationalistic lines. We argue that an alternative approach to security in this context is possible. We highlight how, “desecuritization”—a key tool advocated by the Copenhagen School of Critical Security Studies—may indeed bring back quotidian power negotiations to individuals and empower them, but in this and other contexts, much more is needed. We follow from the normative agenda articulated in the Aberystwyth School’s literature, toward “emancipation.” Namely, by challenging the basic assumptions central to a dominant—exclusivist—interpretation of security, it is possible to conceive of radically different alternatives to the status quo.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 381-394
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1188668
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Author-Name: Dorte Jagetić Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Dorte Jagetić
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Title: The European Union and Peacebuilding: The Cross-Border Dimension
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 397-398
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1195709
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Author-Name: Fernando A. Chinchilla
Author-X-Name-First: Fernando A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chinchilla
Author-Name: Tony Payan
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Payan
Title: Changing Minds: Understanding Collective Violence in the Southeastern US–Mexico Border from a Public Health Perspective
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Organized crime is usually approached as a criminal issue. Today, however, a rising number of scholars, political leaders, and policymakers accept that this strategy has failed. This bi-national study suggests that collective violence, the study of organized crime-related homicide, should be treated as a public health issue. Can organized crime violence along the US–Mexico border be considered an “epidemic”? Can epidemiological approaches to organized crime violence increase knowledge about the root of the problems? This paper answers these issues by applying the first two steps—describing, monitoring, and tracking the problem; and identifying factors that trigger violence—of the (four-steps) public health approach to the violence that has affected the Southeastern US–Mexico border from 2005 to 2013. The authors argue that the northern states of Mexico—Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas—experienced an epidemic of collective violence from 2008 to 2014. More specifically, they describe organized crime-related homicides, its patterns and trends in the four Mexican states mentioned above, plus Texas, through an analysis of homogeneity, incidence, predisposition, enabling and disabling factors, precipitating factors, and reinforcing factors. Public health methods allow researchers and policymakers to promote integrative leadership, identify best practices from learn-as-we-go approaches, and create policy evaluations for each agency meant to intervene on this issue. Consequently, further steps in this agenda call for expanding the study to the others phases of the public health approach: designing and evaluating prevention policies, and disseminating and executing prevention strategies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 281-297
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1259010
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Author-Name: Tatjana Lipiäinen
Author-X-Name-First: Tatjana
Author-X-Name-Last: Lipiäinen
Title: Bodies Without Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 317-318
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294499
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Author-Name: Dhananjay Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Dhananjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Title: Sino-South Asian Relations: Missed Opportunities?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 319-320
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1315607
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Hale
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Hale
Title: Borders Near and Far: The Economic, Geographic and Regulatory Contexts for Trade and Border-Related Issues in Landlocked Alberta
Abstract:
The landlocked Canadian province of Alberta is an anomaly in the study of Canadian borders and borderlands. Major export sectors are increasingly dependent on negotiated access to US and other foreign markets, and sometimes to conditions imposed by other provinces. Major Alberta-based firms and sectors have extensive international operations dependent on efficient borders and predictable rules-based regulatory systems at and beyond borders. Regulatory regimes governing border and trans-border regions vary widely across sectors. Key factors affecting cross-border trade and travel include dispersed markets and related trade corridors, highly segmented production and distribution processes across and within sectors, highly variable commodity price cycles, risks of significant political shocks and ongoing contestation affecting interprovincial and trans-border trade, investment and travel.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 157-180
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1315609
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Author-Name: Katarzyna Stoklosa
Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Stoklosa
Author-Name: Gerhard Besier
Author-X-Name-First: Gerhard
Author-X-Name-Last: Besier
Title: Crossings and Crosses. Borders, Educations, and Religions in Northern Europe
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 321-322
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1319290
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Author-Name: Raffaella Coletti
Author-X-Name-First: Raffaella
Author-X-Name-Last: Coletti
Title: Sicily and the Mediterranean. Migration, Exchange, Reinvention
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 323-324
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1319291
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Author-Name: Katherine Ann Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Katherine Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Title: Borderland Identities in Niagara: Craig Davidson’s Cataract City (2013)
Abstract:
This present article explores how border identities are narrated in Craig Davidson’s Cataract City (2013), a Canadian novel about friendship between two young men, set in Niagara Falls, Ontario and their involvement with a smuggler on the Tuscarora Reservation near Niagara Falls, New York. Drawing on research on the complex and contradictory nature of border identities in Canada and elsewhere, it examines how the novel’s Niagara protagonists negotiate identity and relationships in the region. My reading shows how the text’s protagonists engage in cross-border activities without forming ties on the other side of the border. The Native characters demonstrate a different rapport with the 49th parallel, positioning themselves outside of both the American and Canadian nation-state yet without forming pan-tribal alliances. In the end, Davidson’s fictional representation of the Canada–U.S. border region in Cataract City confirms and complements border studies research that finds increasing obstacles to cross-border cooperation and an absence of shared identity constructs along the Canada–U.S. border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 299-315
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1340848
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Author-Name: Yale D. Belanger
Author-X-Name-First: Yale D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Belanger
Title: Water Stewardship and Rescaling Management of Transboundary Rivers in the Alberta-Montana Borderlands
Abstract:
Surface water access in northern Montana and southern Alberta is an historic political and economic concern that continues to spark contentious debate. It has however also led to several innovative attempts to reconcile differences through regional cooperation in management of transboundary rivers. One attempt—the formation of a Joint Initiative Team (JIT) in 2008 (to 2011) to investigate opportunities for each jurisdiction to improve shared water access of the St. Mary and Milk River systems—failed in its efforts to rescale the Alberta-Montana borderlands water management model. This paper explores this development, and adds to the literature by presenting a study evaluating the JIT’s attempt, and the factors leading to its demise. These lessons will be of interest to scholars interested in similar issues in other border areas.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 235-255
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1367709
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Hale
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Hale
Author-Name: Cailin Bartlett
Author-X-Name-First: Cailin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bartlett
Title: Managing the Regulatory Tangle: Critical Infrastructure Security and Distributed Governance in Alberta’s Major Traded Sectors
Abstract:
This article outlines the multi-level governance of critical infrastructure (CI) as an expression of differentiated integration for three major, trade-dependent Alberta industries within North America: electricity transmission networks, oil and gas pipelines, and food safety systems. It notes the presence of overlapping layers of provincial, Canadian federal, US, and bilateral or trilateral regulation, and key variations within each sector. It summarizes the diverse bureaucratic networks responsible for regulatory oversight, and major contemporary challenges to effective network coordination—not least, widespread private sector ownership of CI networks. Finally, it identifies key priorities facing policy-makers, regulators and owners of CI in balancing core priorities of public safety, environmental protection, operational efficiency, and public responsiveness.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 257-279
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1367710
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Author-Name: Ian Urquhart
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Urquhart
Title: Borders, Boundaries, and the Politics of Petroleum Pipelines
Abstract:
Borders, both territorial and constitutional, have been a longstanding feature of petroleum politics in Alberta. This article suggests there is an important linkage between borders and interests. Raising borders, affirming borders, and eliminating borders may be viewed as political strategies actors will seek in order to realize their preferred outcomes. These strategies have figured importantly throughout the political history of petroleum and pipeline development in Alberta. Traditionally, the debates over natural gas and oil pipeline development were the prerogative of producer, consumer, and national security concerns. Today’s pipeline debates are joined by new interests, those of environmentalists and First Nations. Throughout these debates borders have remained an important political resource.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 181-200
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1414622
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Author-Name: Christopher J. Kukucha
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kukucha
Title: Alberta's Oil Sands Manufacturing Supply-Chain Imports: Evaluating Borders, Boundaries and Borderlands
Abstract:
Manufacturing supply-chains for Alberta's oil sands support the assertion that international and domestic bordering processes are not always territorial. In a previous study the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) determined that domestic exports to Alberta in this supply-chain originated primarily from Ontario and Quebec, and to a lesser degree Saskatchewan. The same study, however, also noted that an additional 50 per cent of sales came from international sources. This article examines trade statistics focusing on these specific Alberta imports, which are historically dominated by three U.S. states (Oklahoma, Illinois, and Texas) in a remarkably consistent range of product areas. Alberta's recent surge in trade with China, however, is not related to this supply-chain. As such, trade in Alberta's oil sands manufacturing supply-chain is driven by market considerations and expertise in manufacturing specific goods, as opposed to regional or borderland pressures. This supply-chain, however, is relatively underdeveloped compared to other GVCs, thereby supporting a conclusion of differentiated integration in this sub-federal sector.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 201-211
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1465353
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Author-Name: Kevin Wipf
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Wipf
Title: Shifting Figurative, Functional and Operational Borders: The Multiple Worlds of Agri-Food Trade and Border Regimes
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Alberta’s agriculture and agri-food sector can be understood using four conceptualizations of borders. Natural borders consisting of the Rocky Mountains to the West, the Canadian Shield to the East, and vast stretches of prairie land in all directions, have posed serious challenges for the movement of goods to and from external markets. Traditional territorial borders encapsulating political jurisdictions separate Alberta from its provincial neighbours to the East and West, territorial neighbour to the North, and American cousins to the South, have defined Alberta’s closest relationships. Functional borders consist of the meso-level social structures directly involved in policy making and ultimately border regimes. Finally, paradigmatic borders that have defined the major debates, issues and character of agriculture and trade policy. Using these conceptual tools to examine each major commodity subsector reveals an interesting mix of international, continental, and regional focuses. Increasing specialization among agricultural operations and increasing value-added food processing, have meant that the border focus of individual business operations is diverse. The main challenge for Alberta is simultaneously working to keep the US border open, while simultaneously gaining access to a greater diversity of trade partners. This will involve a focus on effective transportation, food safety, and competitiveness.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 213-233
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1471730
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Author-Name: Greg Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Author-Name: Geoffrey Hale
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Hale
Title: Borders in Globalization: Alberta in a BiG Context
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 149-156
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1481447
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Author-Name: Krystyna Adams
Author-X-Name-First: Krystyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Adams
Author-Name: Jeremy Snyder
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy
Author-X-Name-Last: Snyder
Author-Name: Valorie A. Crooks
Author-X-Name-First: Valorie A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Crooks
Title: Narratives of a “Dental Oasis”: Examining Media Portrayals of Dental Tourism in the Border Town of Los Algodones, Mexico
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The dental tourism industry situated along the northern Mexican border provides care primarily to American and Canadian tourists crossing the border to access dental treatments that cost less than domestically provided. This movement of patients across the Mexico–United States (US) border supports the practices of numerous dental clinics in northern Mexican border towns. The largest concentration of dentists per square kilometer in this region is situated in Los Algodones, Baja California. Media articles published in American and Canadian newspapers have described the services provided by the roughly 500 dentists working in this small border town. This paper outlines the overall narrative presented in media articles published in common dental tourists’ homes to identify how this industry site is portrayed to industry stakeholders. We argue in this paper that the common narrative presented by the media suggests that this particular industry site is necessarily improving access to dental care and economic development without discussing in detail for whom these health and economic benefits are provided and under what conditions or structures of control. We raise concerns regarding this overly simplified and unbalanced media portrayal of the industry as it fails to consider the perspectives of industry stakeholders on both sides of the Mexico–US border. In particular, this paper draws attention to the missing perspectives of individuals with continued poor access to dental care and/or economic resources despite involvement in dental tourism activities in industry sites like Los Algodones.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 325-341
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267584
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Author-Name: Pedro P. Orraca-Romano
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Orraca-Romano
Title: Cross-Border Earnings of Mexican Workers Across the US–Mexico Border
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This article studies the evolution of the earnings obtained by Mexican-born workers that live in Mexico but work in the US, with respect to the earnings obtained by Mexican-born workers that reside in Mexico in municipalities adjacent to the United States. Between 2000 and 2010 there was a significant decline in the quantity of cross-border workers, followed by a slight increase between 2010 and 2015. The study shows that cross-border workers earn nearly double what similarly skilled non-cross border workers earn, where these differentials are accentuated among women and the low-educated. Given that the two groups have similar human capital levels, the earnings gap is mainly a result of the different returns to their productivity related characteristics they receive in the US and Mexican labor markets, respectively. Besides their higher earnings, cross-border workers also have shorter workweeks and are more likely to be male, married and salaried employees.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 451-469
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294025
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Author-Name: Christian Lamour
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lamour
Title: Schengen Europe in State-national Museums: Immobile Europeans, Immobilized “Others” and the Meaning of Borders
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Museums are central places for participating in the territorial building of the nation-state. They can also play a key role in proposing a spatial structure of the European Union. Certain museums sponsored by member states of the EU have organized exhibitions that refer to the Schengen Treaty and its geographical implications in Europe. However, are these exhibitions promoting a territoriality based on the cross-border mobility of EU citizens favored by this Treaty? Based on a comparative analysis, the research shows that the representation of European integration in these museums can be above all the intensification of state-managed territoriality, meaning the expression of a public power that filters access in space through border controls. This representation can be explained by the specific context within which curators define their contents.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 343-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1340849
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Author-Name: Giacomo Orsini
Author-X-Name-First: Giacomo
Author-X-Name-Last: Orsini
Author-Name: Andrew Canessa
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Canessa
Author-Name: Luis Gonzaga Martínez del Campo
Author-X-Name-First: Luis
Author-X-Name-Last: Gonzaga Martínez del Campo
Author-Name: Jennifer Ballantine Pereira
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Ballantine Pereira
Title: Fixed Lines, Permanent Transitions. International Borders, Cross-Border Communities and the Transforming Experience of Otherness
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Beyond their most physical manifestations as fences, gates and border guards, international borders are social constructs experienced by individuals as they traverse them. Anchored on the ground as relatively fixed lines, international borders transform through time as the crossing is alternatively allowed or hindered depending on changing relations between countries. This is especially true given the social, cultural, and economic structures generated on either side of the border. In this article, we draw on three studies conducted since 2008: Melilla and Morocco, Lampedusa and Tunisia, Gibraltar and Spain. Looking at the recent history of local cross-border relations, this work analyzes how the tightening of previously porous borders altered existing sociocultural, economic and political relations on both sides of the frontier. As Lampedusa and Melilla became points on Europe’s external border, the almost osmotic cross-border relations previously experienced by locals diminished significantly: profound changes challenged their perception of identity and otherness. Similarly, throughout the 20th century, the Gibraltar/Spain border operated both as a bridge across related communities, and as an almost insurmountable barrier when it was closed (1969–1982). This work explores the many ways in which borders transform local linguistic, cultural and economic constellations of neighboring “Others.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 361-376
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1344105
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Author-Name: Maha Nassar
Author-X-Name-First: Maha
Author-X-Name-Last: Nassar
Author-Name: Richard Levy
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Levy
Author-Name: Noel Keough
Author-X-Name-First: Noel
Author-X-Name-Last: Keough
Author-Name: Nashaat N. Nassar
Author-X-Name-First: Nashaat N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nassar
Title: Agricultural Land Use Change and its Drivers in the Palestinian Landscape Under Political Instability, the Case of Tulkarm City
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Agricultural land-use change is unavoidable with population growth and economic development. This study investigated the causes and the consequences of agricultural land-use change in Tulkarm city in the West Bank of Palestine after the construction of the Separation Wall. With the aid of GIS data, the study found that urban and built-up areas increased by 54% during the period 1999–2009. About 80% of the new urbanization occurred on agricultural land. Further, the study presented views of the urban planners, decision makers and farmers in Tulkarm regarding the main factors affecting agricultural land-use change in the city using qualitative interviews. The study found that the political factors, especially the existence of the Wall and the division of land into areas A, B and C, have had a major impact on the city’s uncontrolled development and the diffusion of urban areas on the landscape around the city. At the same time, unprofessional planning, lack of experience, and lack of communication and coordination between different planning organizations are considered major factors leading to uncontrolled and unorganized expansion of the city. Other factors such as farmers’ socio-economic status, land fragmentation, and population growth play essential roles in selling-off agricultural land for urban uses. Studying the dynamics of agricultural land-use change and the factors that led to this change in the West Bank in general, and in Tulkarm in particular, might help shape more robust theoretical understandings of how factors of land change interact under different circumstances, including protracted conflicts.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 377-394
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1344561
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Author-Name: Anton A. Kireev
Author-X-Name-First: Anton A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kireev
Author-Name: Sergei E. Yachin
Author-X-Name-First: Sergei E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yachin
Title: Paradigms of Border Studies and the Metacultural Approach
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Reflection on the issues of paradigmatic foundations, the ontological, epistemological, and praxeological assumptions of border studies gives scholars an opportunity to identify and to overcome the limits of cognitive capabilities of this field. Contemporary individual-centric paradigm of border studies emerged as a result of the “anthropological turn” of the 20th century philosophy where the most important role was played by phenomenology, existentialism, post-positivism, and post-structuralism. However, a more profound effect on the content of the individual-centric paradigm was produced by its struggle against the nature-centric paradigm that prevailed in the study of borders before the 1960s. Post-non-classical revolution in science and philosophy, and the internal contradictions of border studies have created preconditions for the emergence of a new polycentric paradigm. The authors of this article offer the scholars and managers of borders to look at the metacultural approach, which is based on the principles of the polycentric paradigm. This approach can help solve an extremely acute problem of exhaustion of the EU integration capacities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 395-412
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1344563
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Author-Name: Bibek Chand
Author-X-Name-First: Bibek
Author-X-Name-Last: Chand
Author-Name: Lukas K. Danner
Author-X-Name-First: Lukas K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Danner
Title: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Border Minorities in China’s Foreign Relations with South Asia
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This article takes a closer look at how China’s government deals with border minorities in the foreign relations with its neighboring South Asian states. To secure its periphery, China has been known to push its neighbors to support border security, including repressive measures against refugee populations which could potentially threaten China’s domestic peace by inciting or supporting secessionist movements. This study highlights the roles of the Tibetan and Uighur minorities in the relations of China with adjacent states in South Asia. For the Tibetan minority, the article will analyze Sino-Nepalese as well as Sino-Indian relations; concerning the Uighur minority, Sino-Pakistani relations will be highlighted. These case studies promise to be interesting also because of the range of relationships between China and these countries, Pakistan being a relatively close ally, Nepal a buffer state in which China and India compete for power, and India being at least a competitor state, if not arch-enemy—given still existing border disputes. India and Nepal house the first and second largest Tibetan refugee populations worldwide, respectively, while only a small Uighur population lives in Pakistan. Expected results should show the relative importance of border minorities and therefore, Chinese domestic politics in foreign relations with the selected cases.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 413-431
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1348909
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Author-Name: Xolani Tshabalala
Author-X-Name-First: Xolani
Author-X-Name-Last: Tshabalala
Title: Hyenas of the Limpopo: “Illicit Labour Recruiting,” Assisted Border Crossings, and the Social Politics of Movement Across South Africa’s Border with Zimbabwe
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This article discusses the negotiation of undocumented cross-border movement, or assisted border crossings, at Beitbridge, South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe. By reading border practices as arising from a complex synthesis of state regulatory norms with social relations that shape everyday encounters with the Beitbridge border space, the article argues that assisted border crossings are temporally, structurally and experientially determined. The article proposes the local concept of ukutshokotsha as a way of understanding “border struggles” that shape this “morphogenesis.” Located in historical, regional, political-economic, as well as experiential contexts, assisted border crossings are analyzed as rooted in everyday encounters with a fraught border space, as opposed solely to the border’s official institutional norms. The article argues that a focus on border practices is important in as far as it privileges the complex agency of disparate border actors, of the border, and of the shifting meanings of borders that emerge from everyday practices. By describing the colonial style “illicit labour recruiting” and post-independence “assisted border crossings” as a socio-historical, phenomenological, and political process, the article emphasizes the active role of middlemen in shaping the nature and meaning of the Beitbridge border and of the political economic organization of cross-border movement in contemporary Southern Africa. The article argues that the social politics of movement across the Beitbridge border is as much a contingency of history, a material, social and existential aspect of contemporary border practices, and a characteristic of everyday forms of Southern African state formation in a general context of socio-economic crisis.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 433-450
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1348910
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Author-Name: Monica Verma
Author-X-Name-First: Monica
Author-X-Name-Last: Verma
Title: The Human Toll of the Kashmir Conflict: Grief and Courage in a South Asian Borderland
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 471-472
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1348911
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Author-Name: Henrik Dorf Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Dorf
Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen
Title: Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La Vida no Vale nada
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 473-474
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1486727
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Author-Name: Chiara Brambilla
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Brambilla
Title: EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management. Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 475-477
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1493942
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Author-Name: Victor Konrad
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Konrad
Title: State Avoidance and Frontier Adaptation: Engaging the Borderlands of Southeast Asia
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 479-482
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1493944
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Author-Name: Eric Tagliacozzo
Author-X-Name-First: Eric
Author-X-Name-Last: Tagliacozzo
Title: Jagged Landscapes: Conceptualizing Borders and Boundaries in the History of Human Societies
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The present paper discusses ways in which thinking about this paradoxical nature of boundaries might be broadened so that familiar, contemporary, and ultimately very Western notions of what a border actually “is” might be probed and challenged. Borders have histories just as peoples do, and the history of Western borders is only one category among many in global and historical scope. The first part of the paper will focus on conceptual approaches that scholars have taken in examining borders as a rubric of social scientific study. The second part of the paper turns to some of the newer methodologies for this inquiry, as a range of specialists have utilized varying tool kits to hone their analyses of these liminal spaces. The third portion of the essay will look at some regional variations of borders, and how these “lines in space” have appeared in different guises in various global landscapes, and at varying points in the historical continuum. Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Turkey, pre-modern China, and the early Americas are all referenced here. Finally, the last quarter of the paper will pay particular attention to the morphogenesis of Southeast Asian borders, as these delineations came into being only over the last several centuries.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1106332
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Author-Name: Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilie Vindal
Author-X-Name-Last: Ødegaard
Title: Border Multiplicities: At the Cross-Roads between Improvisation and Regulation in the Andes
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Focusing on illicit trade between Peru and Bolivia, this article is concerned with border-work as it unfolds at the cross-roads between improvisation and regulation. The argument of the article is two-fold. First, it argues that cross-border trade in this context must be understood as socially and spatially embedded. The trade involves a sense of local autonomy and networks of cooperation and exchange that not only facilitate illicit trade, but also adds legitimacy and value to cross-border trade, despite its illegal dimensions. Second, the article argues that commodity flows in this context actualize questions about what, where and when the border is. Due to the social and spatial embeddedness of cross-border trade and the authorities’ difficulties to limit the smuggling, border-work is multiplied, taking place in various sites beyond the delineated border. The article illustrates how the flow of a particular commodity, namely fuel, has resulted in an intensification and multiplication of border-work due to smuggling.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 23-38
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1115733
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Author-Name: William Bainbridge
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Bainbridge
Title: Debatable Peaks and Contested Valleys: Englishness and the Dolomite Landscape Scenery
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The toponym “Dolomites” qualifies a mountainous region in the north-east of Italy, located at the cultural and political frontier with Austria. They represent a unique borderland marked by competing ethnic and cultural divides, which are subtly obscured by their inclusion onto the World Heritage List (2009) and by the role they play within a globalized heritage of natural sites. It is the external voice of the first English travelers to the region during the 19th century that UNESCO has identified as central in initiating the promotion of the Dolomites’ status as geologically and aesthetically unique. Travelers to the Dolomites first appropriated the “bizarre” shapes of their mountain forms by attaching them to an utterly English gaze reflecting a particular “way of seeing” a landscape. In their “invention” of the Dolomites, Victorians elevated their peaks to a sublime abstraction of aesthetic “space,” while reducing their valleys to a cultural “place” in which life was enacted picturesquely. In charting this history, this paper asks how, why and to what extent this foreign voice contributed to overshadow the historically contested narratives of this region by transforming it into a “neutral” set of aestheticized English landscape symbols.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 39-58
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1115734
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Author-Name: Bhumitra Chakma
Author-X-Name-First: Bhumitra
Author-X-Name-Last: Chakma
Title: Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 143-144
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1115737
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Author-Name: Huston J. Gibson
Author-X-Name-First: Huston J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibson
Author-Name: Jessica L. Canfield
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Canfield
Title: The Non-gated Gated Community of Stapleton
Abstract:
Stapleton is an urban infill development with a master plan that calls for many ambitious and benevolent social, environmental, and economic goals: aiming to become a well-integrated, inclusive community; promoting internal diversity by providing an array of land-use and housing options; and integrating externally through fostered connections to surrounding, already established neighborhoods. However, through observations and walking interviews with residents, we have reason to question the fulfillment of these goals. Instead we found several physical and non-physical barriers that clearly divide the community, both internally and externally. This study is intended to advance discourse on community borders, particularly for infill developments integrating into already existing urban fabrics.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 73-89
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1124241
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Author-Name: Manuel Ramirez
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramirez
Author-Name: Nanci L. Argueta
Author-X-Name-First: Nanci L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Argueta
Author-Name: Yessenia Castro
Author-X-Name-First: Yessenia
Author-X-Name-Last: Castro
Author-Name: Ricardo Perez
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Perez
Author-Name: Darius B. Dawson
Author-X-Name-First: Darius B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dawson
Title: The Relation of Drug Trafficking Fears and Cultural Identity to Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants in Five South Texas Communities
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This paper reports the findings of research investigating the relationship of spill-over fears related to drug trafficking and of cultural identity to Mexican Americans’ attitudes toward recent immigrants from Mexico in five non-metropolitan communities in the US–Mexico borderlands of South Texas. A mixed methods design was used to collect data from 91 participants (30 intact families with two parents and at least one young adult). Quantitative findings showed that the majority of participants expressed the view that most people in their communities believed that newcomers were involved in drug trafficking and in defrauding welfare programs. A significant interaction indicated that Mexican cultural identity buffered the negative effects of drug trafficking fears as related to the view that the newcomers were creating problems in the communities and region. Qualitative data yielded positive and negative themes, with those that were negative being significantly more numerous. The findings have implications for intra-ethnic relations in borderlands communities as well as for immigration policy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 91-105
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1124244
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Author-Name: Randall W. Monty
Author-X-Name-First: Randall W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Monty
Author-Name: Alyssa G. Cavazos
Author-X-Name-First: Alyssa G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cavazos
Title: Building Rhetorical Theory through Discursively Constructed Borders
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The contacted disciplines of Border Studies, Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies, and Critical Discourse Analysis are each interested in how borders function and are constructed. However, since each discipline approaches the topic from individualized situations, the scholarship remains under-synthesized. As a result, few usable methodologies and theories for working across contexts, both in terms of physical space and disciplinary place, have been developed. By working within the contact zone of these disciplines, we aim to build a theoretical framework for analyzing the construction of borders through the ways local stakeholders compose and interpret discourses. With this approach, we find that the ways these stakeholders rhetorically construct their own border regions can align with scholarly representations, but at the same time, these constructions often contradict the prominent depictions encountered through popular culture, news media, and public policy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 59-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1124245
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Author-Name: Ian Slesinger
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Slesinger
Title: Alterity, Security and Everyday Geopolitics at Israel's Border with Lebanon
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This article reassesses themes in the present literature on borders in political geography by using the case study of Israel's border with Lebanon. This securitized landscape invites a definition of the border predicated on a neat dichotomy between one's own identity and a foreign and dangerous “Other.” However even this border is a complex and contradictory boundary, in which residents’ attitudes, beliefs and practices are ambivalent and defy neat categorization. This study provides a more nuanced account of geographical imagination at this border by treating the borderland as a heterotopic space, rather than perceiving the border as a fixed line, and by examining the everyday “micro-political” operations and materialities that inhabitants of the border region perform and experience. While there is clearly a relationship between security and identity at this border, the outcome of this research indicates that this relationship is non-linear and more complex than can be allowed for by a hostile cultural imagination solely based on a self/Other dyad.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 123-139
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1124246
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Author-Name: Thomas Ptak
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Ptak
Title: Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands: Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 141-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1153942
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Author-Name: Belete Belachew Yihun
Author-X-Name-First: Belete Belachew
Author-X-Name-Last: Yihun
Title: Setit-Humera: A Blister on Ethio–Sudanese Boundary Disputation
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Boundary disputations have contributed to the absence of an all-rounded rapprochement between Ethiopia and Sudan for a long time. Intermittent attempts to seek a comprehensive solution to the problem have often ended in failure. The tension has particularly remained intense along the fertile agricultural district of Setit-Humera, immediately south of the intersection of the Ethio–Eritrean–Sudanese boundaries. Regional geopolitical considerations have substantially dictated proceedings to demarcate/re-demarcate the frontier, which has been going on since the 1960s. Shrouded in secrecy, at least for Ethiopians, the two parties brokered a deal to settle the matter along this highly contested region in 2008. This paper assesses the process, outcome and implications of the deal, highlighting major developments in the past 50 years of negotiation. Archival materials from the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs have shed a new light on the whole affair, which still remains sensitive and is considered top secret.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 107-122
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1165077
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Author-Name: Isabella Soi
Author-X-Name-First: Isabella
Author-X-Name-Last: Soi
Author-Name: Paul Nugent
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Nugent
Title: Peripheral Urbanism in Africa: Border Towns and Twin Towns in Africa
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There has been a proliferation of research on Africa’s borderlands over the past decade, which reflects their centrality in regional systems of trade and the rapid growth of border settlements. The development of twin towns/cities at the border, which has attracted the interest of scholars in other regions of the world, has been a distinctive feature of Africa as well. This paper examines some of the particularities of peripheral urbanism in Africa, whilst seeking to avoid a resort to continental exceptionalism. It begins by tracing some broad patterns before homing in on two sets of case-studies along the Uganda/Kenya and Ghana/Togo borders. The paper argues, firstly, for the enduring importance of colonial infrastructural investments and the policy choices that were made after independence. Secondly, it highlights the markedly different variations of scale, ranging from the border capitals of Kinshasa and Brazzaville at one end of the spectrum, through growing towns like Busia-Uganda and Busia- Kenya, to a multiplicity of smaller border settlements at the other end. Thirdly, the paper argues that administrative logics and trade dynamics have been the main drivers in the expansion of twin cities/towns, although the flight of populations from insecurity have also played a significant role in the Great Lakes region and in West-Central Africa. Finally, the paper points to a feature that has been identified in other regions as well, notably the often marked asymmetries between border settlements, which reflects the influence of deeper historical trajectories and contemporary patterns of trade and population movement alike.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 535-556
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1196601
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Author-Name: Paul Ganster
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ganster
Author-Name: Kimberly Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Kimberly
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: Binational Cooperation and Twinning: A View from the US–Mexican Border, San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California
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Institutionalization of binational cooperation is an important precondition for twinning to develop in border cities. Through a historical review of the San Diego–Tijuana region’s growth and binational cooperation, this paper explores possible areas of twinning. Generally, the cities and municipalities along the US–Mexican border have not experienced twinning, unlike their counterparts in some parts of Europe. Systems of legal federalism in combination with the US and Mexican federal governments’ lack of will to support local transborder collaboration help explain the absence of twinning in the San Diego–Tijuana region. This article concludes that in the era of globalization and regional development, it is important for local governments to be able to fully enter into twinning arrangements to take advantage of opportunities and address challenges inherent in the binational regional context.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 497-511
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1198582
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Author-Name: Jarosław Jańczak
Author-X-Name-First: Jarosław
Author-X-Name-Last: Jańczak
Title: Town Twinning, Transnational Connection and Trans-Local Citizenship in Europe
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 577-578
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1198922
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Author-Name: Ekaterina Mikhailova
Author-X-Name-First: Ekaterina
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikhailova
Author-Name: Chung-Tong Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Chung-Tong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Title: Ersatz Twin City Formation? The Case of Blagoveshchensk and Heihe
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Border studies posit that twin cities represent aspirations to proactively and deliberately become one entity resulting in fundamental changes to the social, economic and political identity of the two communities involved. While some twin cities in the EU and between EU and Russia do follow this pattern, this is not the case in the Russian Far East. The cities of Blagoveshchensk (Russia) and Heihe (China) claim to be twin cities even though they have deliberately confined their twinning activities to trade and tourism and specifically excluded any change that may involve administrative boundaries or national security. Based on interviews and examination of public documents and relevant studies, we argue that the case of Blago and Heihe can be characterized as ersatz in the sense that their city twinning effort is deliberately compartmentalized. We argue that this approach is the local officials’ response to obstacles generated by nationalism, history, vast divergence in economic trajectory and population trends, and close scrutiny by respective national governments. In spite of these, the two cities regard twinning as a valuable marketing tool and have progressively, though asymmetrically, adopted this brand. We further argue that pursuing the rhetoric of city-twinning allows the officials to advance claims to opportunities in trade and tourism and potential access to additional national resources without tackling the difficult questions of more comprehensive cross-border interactions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 513-533
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222878
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Author-Name: Frédéric Durand
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric
Author-X-Name-Last: Durand
Title: European Border Regions in Comparison: Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-nationalization?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 579-581
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226929
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Author-Name: Virpi Kaisto
Author-X-Name-First: Virpi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaisto
Title: City Twinning from a Grassroots Perspective: Introducing a Spatial Framework to the Study of Twin Cities
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This article formulates a conceptual framework to analyze city twinning from the perspective of local inhabitants and applies it to the twin city of Imatra and Svetogorsk on the Finnish–Russian border. This “spatial framework” is inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad, which distinguishes between “perceived space,” “conceived space,” and “lived space.” These concepts are utilized to scrutinize the relationship between the concept of a twin city and the everyday life of the inhabitants. Thirty-seven inhabitants from Imatra and Svetogorsk participated in one of six focus groups discussing their life in the cities and the concept of a twin city. The present study indicates that individuals are likely to identify with the twin city if their spatial perceptions of and lived experiences in the twin city correspond with the associations they have of the concept. The article argues that paying more attention to how local citizens understand twin cities as concepts and as spaces for everyday lives contributes to unpacking the phenomenon of city twinning. This research approach—the spatial framework—is not limited to the study of city twinning but can be applied to cross-border region building in general.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 459-475
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1238315
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Author-Name: Andreas Langenohl
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Langenohl
Title: The Merits of Reciprocity: Small-town Twinning in the Wake of the Second World War
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This paper argues that the sociality of town twinning in Europe since the Second World War has been organized around relationships of reciprocal exchange, for instance, the exchange of visits, hospitality, and gifts. While the paper empirically refers to a qualitative study of forms of twinning sociality in small towns in Germany, it conceptually frames the findings in terms of anthropological theories of exchange. The latter are relevant for the paper because they articulate doubts regarding the capacity of reciprocal exchange to effect sustainable social cohesion. However, in the case of town twinning after the Second World War, this theoretical argument must be differentiated in order to account for a historical constellation in which twinning attempted to forge links between members of former enemy nations. Under such conditions, strictly reciprocal twinning exchange, although receding to the background today, proved to be functional because it required only minimal investments and expectations regarding mutual understanding, affectivity, or even communication. Thus, reciprocity was ideally suited to accomplish an, in historical terms, utterly unlikely result, namely, to forge and re-establish connections among people who were not only perfect strangers but also former enemies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 557-576
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1244648
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Author-Name: Pertti Joenniemi
Author-X-Name-First: Pertti
Author-X-Name-Last: Joenniemi
Author-Name: Alexander Sergunin
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Sergunin
Title: City-Twinning in IR Theory: Escaping the Confines of the Ordinary
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This article sets out to explore the analytical utility of city-twinning for International Relations theory. It does so by recognizing twinning as a relevant category to be explored despite of being part of the “low” rather than the “high,” its inherently ambivalent nature as well as the leaning on some rather unconventional constitutive claims with twinning resting on togetherness and similarity that transcends national borders. In essence, it disrupts crucial foundational claims integrally part of traditional IR theory and invites for the exploring of alternative avenues as well as the testing of the applicability of various new conceptual departures needed in accounting for what has ordinarily fallen between the dichotomies and clean-cut categories part of those theories. The interrogation does not lean on alignment with any particular strand of IR theory, although some avenues such as those provided by the concepts of marginality, liminality and hybridity are probed as departures that might over time facilitate the integration of twinning into IR theory.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 443-458
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257361
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Author-Name: Pertti Joenniemi
Author-X-Name-First: Pertti
Author-X-Name-Last: Joenniemi
Title: Others as Selves, Selves as Others: Theorizing City-Twinning
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The paper aims to account for city-twinning by focusing on the narratives employed and through a highlighting of its affective rather than instrumental aspects. At large, city-twinning is approached as an ideal case, one premised on togetherness and a desire to be like the other. It is noted that the pairing of cities engaged in twinning comes into being through an emphasis on similarity instead of being constituted against the other and with stress on difference as has usually been the case in the sphere of relations extending beyond national borders. These unconventional features integral to twinning as an identity that satisfies emotive desires of belonging are explored by drawing on the concepts of friendship and love. Both are arguably helpful in clarifying what city-twinning is about as a relational form of being in pointing to an opening up and moving beyond the ordinary through the establishment of we-ness and an embracing of the other, although love rests on togetherness and obliterates difference far more thoroughly than does friendship.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 429-442
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1260040
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Author-Name: Pertti Joenniemi
Author-X-Name-First: Pertti
Author-X-Name-Last: Joenniemi
Author-Name: Jarosław Jańczak
Author-X-Name-First: Jarosław
Author-X-Name-Last: Jańczak
Title: Theorizing Town Twinning—Towards a Global Perspective
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 423-428
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267583
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Author-Name: Jarosław Jańczak
Author-X-Name-First: Jarosław
Author-X-Name-Last: Jańczak
Title: Town Twinning in Europe. Understanding Manifestations and Strategies
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This paper categorizes various schemes of cross-border collaboration of European border twin towns. It is methodologically based on field work and data collected during semi-structured interviews with local actors involved in twinning processes, and answers why towns integrate across borders, and how it happens. The article presents empirical developments of twinning in Europe, categorizes it, and finally generalizes the phenomenon. It claims that the grand theories of European integration are too general to understand this process. Also, discipline-based approaches often do not suffice to grasp its peculiarity. It comes to the conclusion that theorizing about European town twinning is a challenging task, due to its multidimensional and varied character, as twinning results from various conditions in various times and places in Europe. Forms and manifestations of twinning differ significantly, resulting from the environment created by the relations between neighboring states (intergovernmentally driven by the center’s policies) as well as the local response (usually following a neo-functional logic). Consequently, towns employ one of the three strategies of twinning: “integration founders,” “integration forerunners” or “good marriages.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 477-495
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267589
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Author-Name: Deanna Fong
Author-X-Name-First: Deanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Fong
Author-Name: Janey Dodd
Author-X-Name-First: Janey
Author-X-Name-Last: Dodd
Title: Event and Archive: Remapping the Poetry Reading Series in Canada, 1957–1974
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Most contemporary critical accounts of the development of the poetic avant-garde in Canada focus on a combination of monographs and little magazines, and subjective, first-person testimony. We argue that these accounts exclude event-based materials in favor of constructing a cohesive, linear narrative of tradition. This paper provides a historical overview and empirical description of the poetry reading series as a burgeoning sociocultural phenomenon during an active period in Canadian literary history: 1957–1974. It discusses three prominent series of events as case studies: the Contact Poetry Reading Series (Toronto, 1957–1963), the Vancouver 1963 Poetry Conference and surrounding events (1959–1963), and the Sir George Williams University Reading Series (Montreal, 1966–1974). It identifies and interprets trends, assumptions, and antagonisms in what we term “first wave” or “traditional” criticism about the poetic avant-garde in Canada, and introduces quantitative and materialist methodologies to reframe the standard narratives of influence and tradition. The paper traces a more nuanced network of cultural exchange that accounts for local, regional, and longitudinal currents, rather than merely latitudinal ones.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-18
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1249903
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Author-Name: Kari Miettinen
Author-X-Name-First: Kari
Author-X-Name-Last: Miettinen
Author-Name: Maria Lähteenmäki
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Lähteenmäki
Author-Name: Alfred Colpaert
Author-X-Name-First: Alfred
Author-X-Name-Last: Colpaert
Title: Exile and Repatriation: Experiences from the Zambezi Region, Namibia
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The Namibian Zambezi region, formerly Eastern Caprivi, has an exceptional borderland geohistory. It resulted from the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty between Great Britain and Germany in 1890, to give Germany a corridor to the Zambezi River linking German East and South-West Africa. The Caprivi Strip as it was called proved useless, but has remained part of the geopolitical setting of Southern Africa to date. During the struggle for independence from the 1960s to 1989 the area soon became a strategic asset of the South African Defense Force and was heavily militarized. Due to increasing repression, many young adults, men and women, left the area to join SWAPO in Zambia. They crossed the border to Zambia and Botswana and were transported between camps to receive basic military training. Many were sent abroad to get additional training both military and civilian. Most also served in Angola, on the so-called northern front. The interviews of ten former exiles are the empirical data for this paper, most of them served in the armed struggle, but some served as nurses, teachers and as SWAPO envoys. The key concepts here are the experiences of the border people reflecting the decision to leave, the camp life, comradeship, and the common cause. After repatriation most suffered from a sense of being an outsider, and it took time to reconcile the leavers and remainers. The education and training in the Soviet Union, Finland, North Korea and elsewhere, were certainly beneficial for both the rebuilding of the new Namibia, but also for their personal life.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 19-39
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1349619
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Author-Name: Kaela Jubas
Author-X-Name-First: Kaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Jubas
Author-Name: Dawn Johnston
Author-X-Name-First: Dawn
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnston
Author-Name: Angie Chiang
Author-X-Name-First: Angie
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiang
Title: Public Pedagogy as Border-Crossing: How Canadian Fans Learn about Health Care from American TV
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This article discusses a research project about the pedagogical function of popular culture for adult audience members. We used the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy to investigate how American cultural texts cross the national border with Canada to inform what is seen as a distinctly Canadian social policy framework. Using Grey’s Anatomy as exemplar, we posed three policy-related questions that are raised in the show: Who is seen as the good or deserving patient? Which health care services are seen as desirable and viable? How is health care delivery structured or organized? In responding to these questions, we attend to how Canadian fans related the show’s representations and messages to their experiences with and understandings of health care, both in Canada and in the United States. After confirming that Grey’s Anatomy does function as a sort of teacher, we organize the remainder of our discussion into three sections focused on lessons: lessons about Canadian health care, lessons about American health care, and lessons about cross-border similarities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 41-54
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1367319
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Author-Name: Jorge Eduardo Mendoza
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendoza
Author-Name: Bruno Dupeyron
Author-X-Name-First: Bruno
Author-X-Name-Last: Dupeyron
Title: Economic Integration, Emerging Fields and Cross-border Governance: The Case of San Diego–Tijuana
Abstract:
The border cities of San Diego and Tijuana have experienced increasing cross-border economic, social and political relationships that have brought about the need for increasing governance of regional cross-border issues. Cross-border public, private and non-profit organizations have emerged on both sides of the border. The cross-border cooperation and governance in the San Diego–Tijuana region has promoted both the infrastructure and economic projects that have been required by different public and private organizations. The economic organizations that are considered incumbents are trying to develop a strategic action field in the area of cross-border economic activity. Challengers are represented by organizations looking to encourage educational, cultural and ecological cooperation and are considered actors interacting in an emerging field. Both incumbents and challengers have yet to develop more extensive networks in order to have greater influence in the region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 55-74
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1367711
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Author-Name: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Changwe
Author-X-Name-Last: Nshimbi
Title: The Human Side of Regions: Informal Cross-border Traders in the Zambia–Malawi–Mozambique Growth Triangle and Prospects for Integrating Southern Africa
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This paper examines the activities of informal cross-border traders (ICBTs) in the contiguous borderlands of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, in order to determine the replicability and feasibility of the growth triangle phenomenon, which was imported as a concept for economic development from Southeast Asia. It also seeks to establish whether ICBTs can satisfy their economic needs from cross-border trade. Apart from the thorough review of relevant literature, participant observations, face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions were deployed to collect the data for the analysis contained in the paper. Primary data from the fieldwork conducted at various locations in the borderlands is qualitatively and statistically analyzed. ICBTs in these areas include affiliates of traders’ associations and non-affiliates. The contiguous borderlands of the three countries comprise a young population of ICBTs with low incomes who have spent relatively few years in cross-border trade. ICBTs who have been longer in the informal trade business have graduated into formal traders. ICBT activities highlight their contribution to regional integration, from the bottom up. Informal cross-border trade provides employment and livelihoods, placing ICBTs outside extremely poor populations living below USD$1.25 per day. ICBTs also have innovative informal ways of accessing credit based on personal interactions and shared experiences with suppliers of goods. Legally establishing the growth triangle creates an environment that ICBTs exploit in order to satisfy their economic needs, especially with government facilitation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 75-97
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1390689
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Author-Name: Arthur Sementelli
Author-X-Name-First: Arthur
Author-X-Name-Last: Sementelli
Title: Fear Responses: Intersubjectivity, and the Hollow State
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Fear responses increasingly have driven both citizens and governments to make personalized “buy” or “sell” decisions in the context of the border for political and economic ends. These buy or sell decisions often serve as a “balm” to demonstrate government is taking action within prevailing political narratives. More explicitly, shifting narratives about what should be feared allow individuals, states, and economic actors to repackage “fears” to enable the sale and resale of responses to them. These consumption choices reinforce buy or sell decisions as reactions to fear rather than more traditional service provision. Sales imply market driven economic exchanges. In government, they represent the movement away from traditional service delivery practices to privatized or contracted goods and services which often have less oversight, possibly exacerbating issues of deinstitutionalization.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 99-112
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1392253
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Author-Name: Teresa González-Gómez
Author-X-Name-First: Teresa
Author-X-Name-Last: González-Gómez
Author-Name: Estrella Gualda
Author-X-Name-First: Estrella
Author-X-Name-Last: Gualda
Title: Disclosing the Relational Structure of Institutional Cross-border Cooperation in Two Cross-border Regions in Europe
Abstract:
Cross-border cooperation (CBC) has evolved as a crucial objective of the European Union and an object of extensive research. As an intrinsically relational process wherein networks and cooperation are integral to understanding the CBC, social capital and social network analysis offer a complementary perspective. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews with experts and secondary sources. This paper contributes using social network analysis to examine and describe the network structure of institutional CBC and Interreg programs in two different cross-border regions. The results address the importance of the visualization of less and more integrated areas and the identification of key institutional actors in CBC.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 113-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1399810
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Author-Name: Inocent Moyo
Author-X-Name-First: Inocent
Author-X-Name-Last: Moyo
Author-Name: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Changwe
Author-X-Name-Last: Nshimbi
Title: Of Borders and Fortresses: Attitudes Towards Immigrants from the SADC Region in South Africa as a Critical Factor in the Integration of Southern Africa
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South Africa attracts migrants from other parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas. However, the immigration debate within the country apparently revolves around immigrants from the other parts of Africa, including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and projects them as undesirable in a way best interpreted as discriminatory and exclusionary. This paper argues that this, coupled with South Africa’s immigration legislation, policies and practices amounts to forms of bordering and exclusion that starkly contradict the country and its neighbor’s aspirations for a regionally integrated Southern Africa. As one of the few SADC member states that have ratified the 2005 Draft Protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons in the SADC, immigrants and cross-border movers from the SADC region ought to be treated well in South Africa. Not doing so militates against the goal of an integrated Southern Africa and the commitments South Africa has made to the continental agenda of establishing an African Economic Community.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 131-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402198
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Author-Name: Howard Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Howard
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Author-Name: Michael Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Black Barrio on the Border: “Blaxicans” of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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Typically, analysts perceive the U.S.-Mexico border in terms of brown and white, that is, as the place where Mexican and (White) American cultures both come together as well as divide and conflict. Although the standard emphases are beginning to change, there is still a dearth of studies of border people of African descent. The article concerns a Black barrio in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, that existed from the 1950s to the 1990s. The life of Jerome Brown, a leader of the historical Juárez “Blaxican” neighborhood, forms the center of the article, which is supplemented by interviews and ethnographic observations concerning this exceptional and fascinating border community. The Juárez “Blaxicans” created an international solution (joining a society in Mexico that was less racist toward them) to the national problem of white racism in the U.S. Besides documenting the community, this article examines the community’s significance in terms of theorizing about the roles of race, ethnicity and nation in a border context in which two distinct, yet often intertwined, race/ethnic/color systems operate. This article also contributes to research on expatriate minorities, a relatively understudied topic, especially in relation to scholarship on migration, ethnography and borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 147-161
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1530130
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Author-Name: Frédéric Durand
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric
Author-X-Name-Last: Durand
Title: Les frontières de la mondialisation – Gestion des flux migratoires en régime néolibéral [The borders of globalization – managing migration flows under the neoliberal regime]
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 163-164
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646153
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Author-Name: Machteld Venken
Author-X-Name-First: Machteld
Author-X-Name-Last: Venken
Title: Citizenship participation and Global Migration. Implications for theory research, and teaching
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 165-166
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646154
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Author-Name: Matthew Longo
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Longo
Title: The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 167-168
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646155
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Author-Name: Paul Ganster
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ganster
Title: Transboundary environmental governance across the world’s longest border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 169-170
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1657482
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Title: Corrigendum
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 171-171
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1456792
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Author-Name: Dhananjay Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Dhananjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Author-Name: Sanjay Chaturvedi
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaturvedi
Title: South Asia: Boundaries, Borders and Beyond
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 173-181
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1669483
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Author-Name: Krishnendra Meena
Author-X-Name-First: Krishnendra
Author-X-Name-Last: Meena
Title: Borders and Bordering Practices: A Case Study of Jaisalmer District on India–Pakistan Border
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Borders facilitate interactions of various kinds. The nature of these interactions can be friendly or outright hostile. The adjacent states employ bordering practices commensurate to the relationship they have. In a scenario where the relationship happens to be benign, the borders and bordering practices may hardly exist and where there is hostility, the borders are very heavily guarded and the bordering practices severe. In both the scenarios however, the impact of the sheer presence of two different spheres of sovereignty impacts the lives of the people inhabiting the border zone. The line demarcates, if not cultures, traditions and economies, but the conscious of the people and leaves a deep imprint. The paper explores narratives from the border and the prevalent bordering practices at the Indo-Pak border. In the exercise, the paper evokes Chris Rumford’s formulation of Seeing like a State vs. Seeing like a Border (Rumford, Chris. 2011. “Seeing like a Border,” in “Interventions on rethinking the ‘border' in border studies” by Johnson et al. Political Geography 30: 61–9) to evaluate both perspectives from the State and the Border. The methodology is discursive wherein the narratives and stories from inhabitants of the border villages are juxtaposed with the perspective of the state and its apparatus at the border. The Case Study is located in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, a province at India’s border with Pakistan on its western expanse.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 183-194
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646148
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Author-Name: Dhananjay Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Dhananjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Author-Name: Vaishali Raghuvanshi
Author-X-Name-First: Vaishali
Author-X-Name-Last: Raghuvanshi
Title: Portraying the “Other” in Textbooks and Movies: The Mental Borders and Their Implications for India–Pakistan Relations
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Borders have been traditionally known just as physical cartographic boundaries on maps. However, the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of Border Studies have witnessed constant evolution in the past century. This has brought to the fore the importance of mental borders along with the physical borders. When it comes to a region like South Asia, the lack of regional integration is conspicuous. One of the reasons for this is the existence of mental borders along with rigid physical borders. The paper seeks to understand the process of creation of mental borders between the two South Asian neighbours by probing it from the point of view of school textbooks and cinematic narrative. School textbooks are the most fundamental building blocks of knowledge in any society. Analysis of these texts brings forward the metaphysical construction of mental borders at a very early stage. Subsequently, cinema as a mode of popular culture is an effective tool in order to understand social phenomena from people’s perspective. Here, the process of meaning creation is largely embedded in linguistics and is derived from people’s experiences. The deconstruction of these data sources leads to the understanding of the process of mental border formation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 195-210
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646151
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Author-Name: Lacin Idil Oztig
Author-X-Name-First: Lacin Idil
Author-X-Name-Last: Oztig
Title: Pakistan’s Border Policies and Security Dynamics along the Pakistan–Afghanistan Border
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After the US-backed international military alliance toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, most Afghan militants took shelter in neighboring Pakistan, blending into Pakistan’s tribal groups. Even though Pakistan took a variety of measures to control its border, the Pakistan–Afghanistan border has become a safe haven for Afghan and Pakistani militant groups. Despite mounting militancy along the border, especially after the fall of the Taliban, the Pakistani government opted for a defensive border strategy and started erecting a border fence. Left with few options, in 2017, the Pakistani government switched to an offensive border strategy by giving a shoot-to-kill order against anyone who illegally crosses the border. This article examines the rationale behind Pakistan’s different border strategies by analyzing the security dynamics along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 211-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1545598
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Author-Name: Fawad Poya
Author-X-Name-First: Fawad
Author-X-Name-Last: Poya
Title: The Status of Durand Line under International Law: An International Law Approach to the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier Dispute
Abstract:
The Durand Agreement, which gave birth to the Durand Line-the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, is one of the most controversial issues for Afghanistan. This Agreement resulted in the annexation of a part of the territory of Afghanistan to British-India (now in Pakistan). Although, the agreement was concluded by the direct participation of the ruler of Afghanistan, the consecutive governments of Afghanistan, in particular, those after partition of British-India, refused to accept Durand Line as an international border. They asserted that the territory of Afghanistan extends beyond the Durand Line, thereby giving rise to a dispute with the neighboring state of Pakistan. What course of action should be adopted by the government and the people of Afghanistan within the contours of international law in order to resolve the border dispute with Pakistan is always being pertinent. This necessarily entails two significant arguments- (1) whether the disagreement over the Durand Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan falls in a “dispute” situation and (2) if there exists a legal dispute, how it should be settled. The paper, therefore, tries to examine above-mentioned arguments and suggests legal/practical solutions within the international law framework to prevent further conflict, thus taking a momentous pace towards regionalism.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 227-241
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646147
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Author-Name: Nimmi Kurian
Author-X-Name-First: Nimmi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurian
Title: Re-engaging the “International”: A Social History of the Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
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The paper critically interrogates a central paradox in India’s emerging border discourse. Although a feel-good narrative of rethinking borders as bridges, it has been curiously resistant to step away from the reductionist logic of borders as barriers. The paper argues that this dualism can be traced to conflicting geopolitical and sociological notions of the international that have resulted in a range of contradictions and distortions at the borders. The paper will engage with the puzzle as to why the trans-Himalayan trader, historically the central protagonist has today become a rather forlorn metaphor of a conflicted discourse. It will draw inferences based on field observations in Dharchula, an ancient trading town in northern India located on the trans-Himalayan trading routes with Nepal and China. These offer interesting insights on how state power and regulation as well as new border alignments have affected everyday lives at the borders. The paper concludes by arguing for discursive cross-fertilizations as first steps towards recognizing the borderlands as the agentive sites that they are.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 243-254
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646149
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Author-Name: Jayashree Vivekanandan
Author-X-Name-First: Jayashree
Author-X-Name-Last: Vivekanandan
Title: No Mountain Too High? Assessing the Trans-territoriality of the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative
Abstract:
Regional efforts to preserve mountain landscapes that account for half of the world’s biodiversity hotspots raise pertinent questions for existing statist discourses and practices of territoriality. The paper focuses on the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI), a transboundary Himalayan collaboration involving China, India and Nepal that seeks to conserve an area of shared cultural heritage and rich biodiversity. The UNEP-supported initiative, aimed at integrating regional, national and local actors redefines the role of the state from policy control to policy coordination. This prompts three key questions that the paper seeks to investigate. Firstly, how will states and sub-state actors negotiate divergent interests and approaches to natural resource management? Secondly, to what extent can spatiality be read with citizenship within the framework of transboundary conservation? Thirdly, what are the prospects for cross-border initiatives to reconcile conservation strategies devised at the national and regional levels with indigenous value systems, which have traditionally regulated local resource use? The paper is an enquiry into the Initiative’s potential to redefine the spatial and operational remits of state capacity and its implications for mountain governance.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 255-268
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1646150
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Author-Name: Anubhav Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Anubhav
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Title: Gaining a Ghetto: The Resettlement of Partition-affected Bengalis in New Delhi’s Chittaranjan Park
Abstract:
The Bengali sufferers of the tragic partition of India in 1947 have arguably failed to garner the political, policy, and discursive attention received by their West Pakistani or Punjabi counterparts. A case in point, Chittaranjan Park – a sub-urban neighborhood or colony of New Delhi granted as a ghetto to the Bengalis rendered rootless by the formation of East Pakistan – is rarely a muse for forays in partition studies or borderscaping. This paper, as an attempt to fill this void, traces the civil society-led lobbying movement for the carving out of Chittaranjan Park at the heart of India’s national capital, by largely relying on archived editions of the colony’s first newsletter. The narrative is linked to its contextual undercurrents of identity consciousness, state rehabilitation policy, civil-state relations, and local politics and economics by historical-evaluation. First, after highlighting how the Bengal chapter of the partition is often overlooked, this paper highlights the benefits that the then expanding city of Delhi offered its refugees in India. Second, it contrasts the Indian state’s policy response to the partition’s refugees from West Pakistan to those from the east. Third, it unpacks the idea of, and lobbying bid for, Chittaranjan Park, and examines if the colony qualifies as an ethnically-exclusive bordered space within a city.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 269-286
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1653786
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Author-Name: Michel Foucher
Author-X-Name-First: Michel
Author-X-Name-Last: Foucher
Title: African Borders: Putting Paid to a Myth
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Africa’s borders have a poor reputation. Even today, some say that they are arbitrary and absurd, porous and undermined, indefensible and undefended. Yet the principle of intangibility of borders, agreed by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1964, has held, with rare exceptions. The time has come to put paid to the enduring myth that the scars of colonialism are responsible for all of Africa’s troubles. This assertion about the disadvantageous consequences of Africa’s borders is just one of a number of received ideas, others being the absence of any pre-colonial political boundaries, and the lack of consideration shown by Europeans to pre-existing geopolitical realities. Certainly, there is often too little demarcation, though much progress has been made, but Africa’s borders act as creative interfaces, which are exploited by the trading networks that drive globalization from the bottom up. The borders of Africa have become Africa’s borders, agreed as such and strengthened by a process of border reaffirmation supported by the African Union. The origin of the continent’s internal tensions lies elsewhere, the key issue being appropriation and control of the periphery and the external frontiers.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 287-306
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1671213
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Brunet-Jailly
Title: Why Read Michel Foucher’s African Borders: Putting Paid to a Myth?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 307-308
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1671212
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Author-Name: Anthony I. Asiwaju
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony I.
Author-X-Name-Last: Asiwaju
Title: An Appraisal of Michel Foucher’s African Borders: Putting Paid to a Myth
Abstract:
This review interrogates the apparently colonialist apology in the argument by the author of the publication under scrutiny, that the boundaries of independent African state territories, within and especially externally, are, after all, not the European contraptions they have hitherto been presumed in existing works. It argued in support of the status quo, that the boundaries are, in the main, European impositions, inherited with little or no modifications by the inheritance elites as at the at the dates of the independences.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 309-310
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1671210
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Author-Name: Olivier J. Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: Comment on African Borders: Putting Paid to a Myth
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 311-312
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1671211
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Author-Name: Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto Rodolfo
Author-X-Name-Last: Georg Uebel
Title: Border Odyssey: Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 313-314
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1657481
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Author-Name: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Author-X-Name-First: Guadalupe
Author-X-Name-Last: Correa-Cabrera
Title: Border politics in a global era: comparative perspectives
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 315-316
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1665471
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Author-Name: Abby Peterson
Author-X-Name-First: Abby
Author-X-Name-Last: Peterson
Title: Humanitarian Border Workers in Confrontation with the Swedish State’s Border Making Practices: “The Death of the Most Generous Country on Earth”
Abstract:
We most often talk about state bordering practices: those activities engaged in by states that constitute, sustain or modify borders between states. While the role of states is central in the study of migration processes this, however, underestimates the roles that non-state actors play in borderwork. State bordering practices are to a large degree performed in interaction with other types of non-state actors, processes and organizations. In focus for this study are the state’s border making practices in confrontation with the borderwork of humanitarian volunteers, which brought into sharp relief the underlying tension between the Swedish state’s humanitarian commitments and securitization. In this paper I will discuss the role of ordinary people in border practices on the basis of media sources, relevant websites and secondary sources collected in Sweden in autumn 2015 during what has been called the “refugee crisis.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 317-333
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402199
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Author-Name: Christian Lamour
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lamour
Author-Name: Renáta Varga
Author-X-Name-First: Renáta
Author-X-Name-Last: Varga
Title: The Border as a Resource in Right-wing Populist Discourse: Viktor Orbán and the Diasporas in a Multi-scalar Europe
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Europe and now the United States are characterized by the growing presence of populist parties and leaders able to attract a significant share of the electorate. The successful strategy of right-wing populist politicians consists in proposing a series of discourses based on a differentiation between an endangered “Us” and a threatening “Them.” The protection of the “Us” community from the evil “Them” is often expressed through the necessity of closing the national border. This measure is a key discursive resource incorporated in their speeches. However, is the border only presented by right-wing populist leaders as a boundary which has to be controlled, securitized, and sealed? Based on the analysis of discourses produced by Viktor Orbán, the only long-standing European populist leader in power, the research shows that right-wing populist discourses can be based on opposed and complementary conceptions of the state border to entrench the opposition between “Us” and “Them.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 335-350
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1402200
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Author-Name: Brit Lynnebakke
Author-X-Name-First: Brit
Author-X-Name-Last: Lynnebakke
Title: Dealing with Borderland Complexity. The Multisided Views of Local Individuals in the Norwegian–Russian Borderland
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Against the background of the transnational Barents Cooperation, the article explores the multisided views of borderland locals in Kirkenes. Based on semi-structured interviews, there were seven, partly contradictory, perspectives on Russians and a local orientation towards Russia. The same individuals expressed views that went beyond either endorsement, resistance or ambivalence on increased borderland integration. Rather, interviewees integrated several perspectives in different combinations to simultaneously express sentiments as different as skepticism, pragmatism, historical gratitude and local pride. The emphasis on multisided statements differs from some previous border studies that emphasize positioned and situational borderland identities and borderland experiences. Following Kurki (Kurki, T. 2016. Personal Trauma versus Cold War Rhetoric in the Finnish-Russian Borderland. In The Dynamics of Cultural Borders, ed. Anu Kannike and Monika Tasa. University of Tartu Press, 76), I argue that the repertoire of perspectives people related to conveyed layered meanings of the border that reflected a complex present and different historical periods. Beyond borderland contexts, paying attention to individuals’ expressions of different perspectives can contribute to increased understanding of seemingly contradictory attitudes.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 351-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1436002
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Author-Name: Estelle Evrard
Author-X-Name-First: Estelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Evrard
Author-Name: Birte Nienaber
Author-X-Name-First: Birte
Author-X-Name-Last: Nienaber
Author-Name: Adolfo Sommaribas
Author-X-Name-First: Adolfo
Author-X-Name-Last: Sommaribas
Title: The Temporary Reintroduction of Border Controls Inside the Schengen Area: Towards a Spatial Perspective
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Following the terrorist attacks in Paris (November 2015) and Brussels (March 2016), several EU Member States have decided to re-establish border controls or to build walls inside the Schengen Area. Although these decisions are temporary and legally framed by the Schengen code, their extent disrupts the free movement within the Schengen Area, in particular in border areas. While lawyers and economists have analyzed the impacts of this situation, the spatial perspective has remained rather neglected. This exploratory contribution aims to address this gap in the literature by outlining the spatial significance of reintroduced controls for border areas inside the Schengen Area. This contribution firstly undertakes a literature review of the different conceptual tools at hand. These are then compared with a set of exploratory empirical materials. The article focuses more precisely on the Greater Region where France and Germany have reintroduced border controls, thus disrupting in particular daily cross-border flows with Luxembourg and Belgium. The analysis demonstrates that the border acts as a filter, disrupting cross-border flows and cooperation. Also, it sheds some light on the important role played by the ideational perception of the border for practitioners and decision-makers. This contribution concludes by suggesting several paths for a future research agenda.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 369-383
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1415164
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Author-Name: Peter Teunissen
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Teunissen
Title: Border Crossing Assemblages: Differentiated Travelers and the Viapolitics of FlixBus
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The critical border scholar William Walters argues that although vehicles of mobility (e.g. coaches, boats, and airplanes) are important features of mobility and migration, there is relatively little attention paid to the relation between materiality and migration. This research follows Walters’ notion of viapolitics to approach the bordering of mobility from the middle, from the perspective of the vehicle and not just the state, to gain a more theoretical and comprehensive understanding of human mobility and its entanglement with power-relations. Building upon assemblage theory, mobility studies, and contemporary border studies this research aims to lay bare the viapolitics of FlixBus. Drawing upon a mobile ethnography, that combines my own FlixBus travels with the analyses of policy documents and international agreements, I illustrate how FlixBus represents and reproduces scattered borderscapes. The analysis results in a concluding call for differentiated understanding of body/vehicle relations in order to understand better the bordering of mobility within the European Union.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 385-401
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1452165
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Author-Name: Markéta Votoupalová
Author-X-Name-First: Markéta
Author-X-Name-Last: Votoupalová
Title: Schengen Cooperation: What Scholars Make of It
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The Schengen cooperation has been one of the most debated European issues since the migration flows into the EU increased in 2015. This survey article aims to give an overview of the scholarly literature on the Schengen Area which can help see the current issues in a broader theoretical and historical perspective. Often, researchers emphasize the difficulties the Schengen project experiences. They criticize that security is more important than human rights, EU citizens are more privileged than third country nationals, states use too much discretion in terms of interpreting the Schengen Acquis, etc. Regarding examined aspects of the Schengen cooperation, scholars focus predominantly on borders, security, agency, and the gap between legislation and practice. On the other hand, the issues of solidarity, resilience, and symbolism have been rather neglected so far. However, exactly these aspects could help clarify the current situation within the Schengen Area. To conclude, Schengen seems to be a resilient project, albeit full of ambiguities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 403-423
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1457974
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Author-Name: Denis Jallat
Author-X-Name-First: Denis
Author-X-Name-Last: Jallat
Author-Name: Sébastien Stumpp
Author-X-Name-First: Sébastien
Author-X-Name-Last: Stumpp
Author-Name: Julien Fuchs
Author-X-Name-First: Julien
Author-X-Name-Last: Fuchs
Title: “Playing with the Border:” Alsatian Sports Societies and Alsace’s Problematic Return to France after the First World War
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Annexed by the Germans in 1870, the Alsace region returned to France in 1918. Following a triumphal welcome for French troops, the Alsatians began timidly to showcase their new nationality after 47 years of German presence. In a country that promoted anti-Germanism, laying claim to German heritage on the political or professional scene was impossible. The situation was quite different however in the field of sport, which cultivated contradictions by playing on its neutral and apolitical image. Local sports associations maintained a special relationship with the border, characterized by porosity with regard to Germany and the partitioning of the French or even Alsatian side. Such ambiguous positioning led them to hesitate between two different approaches: either adopt a public position proclaiming their commitment to the Republic or take an infrapolitical stand and “play with the new borders.” The paper studies this phenomenon through the monograph of the rowing club “Cercle Nautique de Strasbourg.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 425-441
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1495096
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Author-Name: Melanie Plangger
Author-X-Name-First: Melanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Plangger
Title: De-and re-bordering the Alpine Space: how Cross-border Cooperation Intertwines Spatial and Institutional Patterns of Exclusion and Inclusion, Subordination and Horizontality
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During the last years, scholars have broken up dichotomies that have shaped our understanding of cross-border cooperation. In geography, the confrontation between a territorial and a relational reading of space has given way to approaches that stress their dialogue. In political science, a struggle between a focus on government and governance has shifted towards a recognition of their coexistence. In this sense, cross-border networks no longer appear as antipodes to territorial borders, scalar relationships, sectoral differentiation and political hierarchies. Rather, they constitute and condition each other. While both geography and political science stress how connections mingle with patterns of exclusion and subordination, scholars rarely bring spatial and institutional accounts together. This paper aims at bridging the gap between spatial and institutional approaches of cross-border cooperation. With regard to theory, it embeds similarities in their ontological focus on structures and strategies in a strategic-relational approach. Empirically, the paper examines the EU macro-regional strategy for the Alpine space. The conclusions imply that the macro-regional strategy embodies a dynamic balance of spatial and institutional boundlessness and boundaries.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 443-465
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1493943
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Author-Name: Alice Engl
Author-X-Name-First: Alice
Author-X-Name-Last: Engl
Author-Name: Verena Wisthaler
Author-X-Name-First: Verena
Author-X-Name-Last: Wisthaler
Title: Stress Test for the Policy-making Capability of Cross-border Spaces? Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino
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This paper focusses on the role of border regions in the governance of refugee flows. By analyzing the political discourse with regard to refugees and asylum seekers in the Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, the paper evaluates the strength of ideational ties and of ideological frames for cross-border, policy-making capabilities in a contested policy field. The paper further develops the framing of the ideational dimension of cross-border cooperation by shifting the focus from the individual to the collective political level and from symbols to political discourse. Due to the favorable and institutionalized framework of cross-border cooperation, we assume strong ideational ties to increase the policy-making capability of border regions in the governance of migration flows independent from national frameworks. We show that regardless of the institutionalization of cross-border cooperation and frequent references to the Euroregion in the political discourse of all sub-state parliaments, the ideational frame for common actions regarding refugees and asylums seekers is eclipsed by the national context that continues to outweigh a local transnational identity. This hinders the capability of common policy making within cross-border regions. Nevertheless, we argue that border regions have the potential to fill a gap in the multilevel governance of migration by becoming mediators across borders and between states.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 467-485
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1496466
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Author-Name: Jaana Palander
Author-X-Name-First: Jaana
Author-X-Name-Last: Palander
Title: Immigration and the law – race, citizenship, and social control
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 487-488
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1665472
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Author-Name: Edward Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: The Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 489-490
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1666734
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Author-Name: Ju Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Ju
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Rongxing Guo
Author-X-Name-First: Rongxing
Author-X-Name-Last: Guo
Title: Desert borderland: the making of modern Egypt and Libya
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 491-492
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1676814
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Author-Name: Agnes W. Behr
Author-X-Name-First: Agnes W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Behr
Title: We do not have borders: Greater Somalia and the predicaments of belonging in Kenya
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 493-494
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1676816
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Author-Name: Virginie Mamadouh
Author-X-Name-First: Virginie
Author-X-Name-Last: Mamadouh
Title: Les frontières et la communauté politique. Faire, défaire et penser les frontières
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 495-496
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1683054
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Author-Name: Yos Santasombat
Author-X-Name-First: Yos
Author-X-Name-Last: Santasombat
Title: Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 655-656
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1204936
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Author-Name: Paul Fryer
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Fryer
Title: Crisis and Migration: Implications of the Eurozone Crisis for Perceptions, Politics, and Policies of Migration
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 657-658
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1204937
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Author-Name: Gregory Evans Dowd
Author-X-Name-First: Gregory Evans
Author-X-Name-Last: Dowd
Title: Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 659-660
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1204938
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Author-Name: Scott A. Bollens
Author-X-Name-First: Scott A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bollens
Title: The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 661-662
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1204939
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Author-Name: Olivier Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: Regionalism in Africa. Genealogies, Institutions and Trans-State Networks
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 663-664
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222881
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Author-Name: Jaume Castan Pinos
Author-X-Name-First: Jaume Castan
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinos
Title: Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 665-666
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222882
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Author-Name: D. Rick Van Schoik
Author-X-Name-First: D. Rick
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Schoik
Title: Border Odyssey: Travels Along the U.S./Mexico Divide
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 667-668
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1226930
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Author-Name: Ila Nicole Sheren
Author-X-Name-First: Ila Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheren
Title: The San Diego Chicano Movement and the Origins of Border Art
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This article analyzes how the complex and often contradictory immigration politics of the 1970s Chicano movement led to the development of Border Art in the San Diego region. Chicano leader Herman Baca insisted upon the importance of resolving the immigration debate, but cast the question in terms of a global system of inequity. Artists of the movement were forced to mediate between presenting the public with visions of a borderless world and circumscribing a Chicano “nation” within the U.S. Southwest. San Diego’s Chicano Park murals betray this tension, and several of the artists involved would go on to found the first border art collective. Freed from the entanglements of Chicano politics and the burden of nationalism, “Border Art” could focus on human rights violations and economic inequality.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 513-527
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1238314
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Author-Name: Donna L. Lybecker
Author-X-Name-First: Donna L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lybecker
Author-Name: Mark K. McBeth
Author-X-Name-First: Mark K.
Author-X-Name-Last: McBeth
Author-Name: Adam M. Brewer
Author-X-Name-First: Adam M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Brewer
Author-Name: Carine De Sy
Author-X-Name-First: Carine
Author-X-Name-Last: De Sy
Title: The Social Construction of a Border: The US–Canada Border
Abstract:
This study argues that boundaries represent socially and politically constructed policy realities and that media policy narratives play an important role in this construction. Traditionally borders are described, and their image is created or at least reified, via traditional media sources such as newspapers and television. In today’s world of increasing access to new media, this trend appears to be shifting. Thus, it is timely to ask, What is the image of the US–Canada border as presented through new media outlets such as YouTube? Does YouTube present narratives that discuss topics different from those in the traditional media? And, Do these narratives describe the issues and people of the border in a deserving or undeserving light? This paper uses the Narrative Policy Framework and Schneider and Ingram’s Social Construction of Policy Design to analyze how YouTube videos construct the US–Canada border. A total of 56 YouTube videos, posted between February 2009 and May 2015, were analyzed. Results show the most common issue within videos involved security on the border. Most frequently viewed were videos involving life on the border and security. Characters common in the videos were villains and victims, rather than heroes. Overall, the analysis found 64% of videos presented a deserving construction of the border and 36% presented an undeserving construction. The implications of these findings for the study of the US and Canada border are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 529-547
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1247652
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Author-Name: Belinda Román
Author-X-Name-First: Belinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Román
Title: Emerging Information Networks between Mexico and the United States
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A new and growing body of theoretical research emphasizes the importance of networks in daily life. At their essence, networks transmit information between nodes in a system and send out signals to prospective participants. Within the context of the immigration debate in the United States, Mexican immigrants may be seen to be creating cross-border networks over which information flows. We present research on transitioning the analysis of immigrant flows between the United States and Mexico from the traditional corridor analysis to one in which networks of individuals and their relationships are important. We present a basic network map created using matrícula consular data in order to reveal the complex system created by this population’s movements. Our research demonstrates that the movement of Mexican migrants to and through the US involves more than simple point-to-point travels and shows how cities and states on both sides of the international boundary are tied together through this population. The key objective is to uncover any emerging patterns otherwise not apparent through traditional means.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 623-635
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1249902
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Author-Name: Guillaume Drevon
Author-X-Name-First: Guillaume
Author-X-Name-Last: Drevon
Author-Name: Philippe Gerber
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerber
Author-Name: Olivier Klein
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Klein
Author-Name: Christophe Enaux
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Enaux
Title: Measuring Functional Integration by Identifying the Trip Chains and the Profiles of Cross-Border Workers: Empirical Evidences from Luxembourg
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The number of cross-border workers in Luxembourg has steadily increased over the last 30 years. In the collective imagination these cross-border workers come to the Grand Duchy just to work. This paper challenges this representation by measuring the functional integration of cross-border workers in Luxembourg. Using some useful tools linked to the field of Time Geography, it is possible to analyze their activity spaces according to the spatial and temporal organization of their daily activities and trip chains. The spatial distribution and organization of their activities on both sides of the border provide the methodological and analytical support for the findings presented in this paper. The juxtaposition of trip chains with activity spaces allows the identification and characterization of the degree of functional integration of cross-border workers in Luxembourg. Moreover, based on a quantitative survey conducted in three different countries, our results show there are five types of cross-border worker profiles in terms of the degree of integration: commuter-only, home-centered, dispersed, hybrid, and functionally integrated.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 549-568
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257362
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Author-Name: Sanjib Pohit
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjib
Author-X-Name-Last: Pohit
Title: Quantifying Impediments to India-Nepal Overland Trade: Logistics Issues and Policy Message
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Even in today’s globalized world, recent studies have shown that informal trade barriers still do exist and inhibit trade flows, particularly so in the developing countries. This can arise due to a host of factors such as complex customs procedures, capacity constraints and/or corruption at the border. In the context of south Asia, this is very much relevant in the case of India/Nepal trade where partners’ goods by and large face zero tariff/quotas in respective markets. Yet, Nepalese traders frequently raise the issue of impediments due to which formal trade flows do not show consistent increase and informal trade show no sign of decline. In this context, this paper attempts to quantify all the relevant costs resulting from informal trade barriers that impinge upon trade between India and Nepal. My estimate shows that the aggregate delay in overland trade between India and Nepal is more than 200% of ideal time. According to the respondents, the financial implication of the delay for exports to Nepal turned out to be 5.5% of the value of consignment whereas the same for imports from Nepal amounted to about 8.5% of the value of consignment. The findings indicate that a major overhaul in the present system of trade between the two nations is needed. This policy prescription is equally applicable in the context of trade between South Asian countries through land routes.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 569-584
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257366
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Author-Name: Galina Cornelisse
Author-X-Name-First: Galina
Author-X-Name-Last: Cornelisse
Title: Inside Immigration Detention
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 669-671
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1257367
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Author-Name: Pablo Podadera Rivera
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Podadera Rivera
Author-Name: Francisco J. Calderón Vázquez
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Calderón Vázquez
Title: Institutional Aspects of Portugal-Spain Cross-Border Cooperation
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The Portuguese–Spanish border perfectly embodies the common characteristics of European cross-borders territories with the present time characterized by abundant initiatives of cross-border cooperation. In this paper we will analyze the institutional aspects of the cross-border cooperation on the Spanish–Portuguese border from its configurative elements: starting from the normative tools which have promoted it, up to the new institutions which have developed it; its results relating to the deactivation of the cross-border discontinuity and the minimization of inherent transaction costs due to the cross-border factor. The final conclusions of research reveal an important impact of the cross-border cooperation, of its institutions and tools in the political and administrative landscape of Portuguese–Spanish cross-border areas even though they are impregnated by excessive Community bureaucracy and with important administrative, fiscal and juridical-legal limitation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 585-604
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267588
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Author-Name: Rodrigo Bueno Lacy
Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo Bueno
Author-X-Name-Last: Lacy
Title: Solidarity Beyond Borders: Ethics in a Globalising World
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 673-674
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267590
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Author-Name: Péter Balogh
Author-X-Name-First: Péter
Author-X-Name-Last: Balogh
Author-Name: Márton Pete
Author-X-Name-First: Márton
Author-X-Name-Last: Pete
Title: Bridging the Gap: Cross-border Integration in the Slovak–Hungarian Borderland around Štúrovo–Esztergom
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One of the main narratives of border studies in recent years has been that cross-border interactions rarely result in a thorough integration, with the border remaining a strong dividing line. While not questioning that grand narrative as a whole, this article contributes to nuancing the picture. Through the four analytical lenses proposed by Brunet-Jailly (2005. Theorizing Borders: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Geopolitics 10, no. 4: 633–649) we investigated the Slovak-Hungarian borderland around Štúrovo and Esztergom, where substantial developments towards a thorough integration of the two sides have actually taken place. The empirical material is based on personal interviews with 26 local elites, statistical data, field observations, etc. Two dimensions emerge as particularly important behind this integration. One is related to market forces: a long-lasting severe economic situation including high unemployment on the rather agriculture-dominated Slovakian side has pushed thousands to daily commute to work on the industrially oriented Hungarian side, where demand for labor has been high. The other key dimension is related to the local cross-border culture, where shared identities and common languages on both sides have led to intensive cultural and educational exchange. These developments were also facilitated by the policy activities of multiple levels of government and the local political clout. Our case contradicts the now common idea that increasing cross-border integration coincides with decreasing cross-border mobility.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 605-622
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294495
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Author-Name: Minna Lundgren
Author-X-Name-First: Minna
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundgren
Title: Riskscapes: Strategies and Practices Along the Georgian–Abkhazian Boundary Line and Inside Abkhazia
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The Georgian–Abkhazian war in 1992–1993 caused the forced displacement of around half of the population of the former autonomous Abkhazian republic. Over 200,000 of them were ethnic Georgians, out of whom at least 46,000 have returned mainly to southern Abkhazia. Abkhazia today functions as a de facto independent state, and the Russian–Abkhazian border control along the administrative boundary line between Abkhazia and Georgia poses an obstacle to young people from returnee families who are studying in Georgia proper and want to visit their families in Abkhazia. This study focuses on young migrants navigating the consequences of war and ethnic conflict on human mobility in the border area. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and five in-depth qualitative interviews with young people aged 18–25 years, the aim is to examine the strategies and practices that the young respondents employ to cross the border. To reach their homes in Abkhazia they need to navigate through riskscapes—landscapes or physical settings embedded with multiple layers of risk. Depending on their social positions (gender, ethnicity, citizenship, age) different riskscapes are unfolded. To handle riskscapes these young people adopt preventive measures; they change routes and behavior.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 637-654
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1300778
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Author-Name: Nicole Bates-Eamer
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Bates-Eamer
Author-Name: Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir
Author-X-Name-First: Helga Kristín
Author-X-Name-Last: Hallgrímsdóttir
Title: BIG (Borders in Globalization): Borders and Bordering Processes in the Pacific Northwest
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 497-503
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1768886
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Author-Name: Samantha Magnus
Author-X-Name-First: Samantha
Author-X-Name-Last: Magnus
Author-Name: Helga Hallgrímsdóttir
Author-X-Name-First: Helga
Author-X-Name-Last: Hallgrímsdóttir
Author-Name: Nicole Bates-Eamer
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Bates-Eamer
Author-Name: Victor Konrad
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Konrad
Title: Overgrowing the Border? An Examination of Cascadian Culture and Cannabis Legalization
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Globalization has challenged the role of borders in society, sparking interdisciplinary interest in the social reconstruction of the lines dividing the world’s population from one another. Border theorists have proposed that a few key factors promote cross-border integration: cross border policy-making, market forces, political clout, and culture [Brunet-Jailly, E. 2005. Theorizing Borders: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Geopolitics 10, no. 4: 633–49]. Perhaps because it is the least tangible and therefore most difficult to assess, the role of culture in shaping border phenomena has been the least elucidated. Our objective is to shed light on the operation of culture in borderland integration with a case study of cannabis law convergence in Cascadia, a region spanning the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington and Oregon. Through an examination of both grey and academic literature, we explore the extent to which shared culture across the border may have driven legalization of recreational cannabis, effective in each jurisdiction between 2012 and 2018.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 505-526
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1619474
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Author-Name: Alexander Norfolk
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Norfolk
Title: Shifting, Securitizing, and Streamlining: An Exploration of Preclearance Policy in the Pacific Northwest
Abstract:
This paper conducts an exploration of preclearance activities along the BC-Washington State border. Through an analysis of current issues associated with preclearance activities, and interviews with key agencies involved in the implementation of passenger preclearance policy in Southern Vancouver Island, the paper focuses a critical eye on some of the legal, social, and political ramifications of passenger preclearance policy in the region. Moreover, the study seeks to test the core hypotheses of the Borders in Globalization research program which state that bordering processes in the twenty-first century tend to straddle the boundary line, and are increasingly a-territorial.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 527-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1619473
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Author-Name: Ari Finnsson
Author-X-Name-First: Ari
Author-X-Name-Last: Finnsson
Title: Border Disputes and Identity in Anglophone British Columbia: 1859–1903
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This paper examines the interaction of discourses surrounding the international border and national identity in British Columbia from 1859 through to the turn of the century. Media coverage in British Columbia of the 1859 San Juan border dispute indicates that the international boundary, as the marker of separation between the United States and British Columbia, became an important symbol of British identity in North America. Although British customs continued to be valued, the period of 1859–1872 saw the development of an Anglophone identity in British Columbia that differentiated itself from Great Britain due in part to a lack of British involvement in the region. Confederation with Canada in 1871, however, meant that the parameters of the debate around the 1903 Alaskan border dispute had changed since 1859/72: British Columbia now found itself united with Canada in a shared defence of the international boundary. The Alaskan boundary dispute became a symbol that both British Columbians and other Canadians could understand and use to interpret their relationship with the United States. Border disputes, therefore, provided a common ground upon which British Columbians and Canadians could build a shared identity.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 545-562
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1605303
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Author-Name: Edwin Hodge
Author-X-Name-First: Edwin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge
Author-Name: Helga Hallgrimsdottir
Author-X-Name-First: Helga
Author-X-Name-Last: Hallgrimsdottir
Title: Networks of Hate: The Alt-right, “Troll Culture”, and the Cultural Geography of Social Movement Spaces Online
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The “alternative right” or “alt-right” is a quintessentially twenty-first century phenomenon: a radicalized far right ideology that is proliferated and disseminated almost exclusively online with members drawn from all over the world. This paper argues that online debates within alt-right online communities about the acceptability of alt-right language and imagery are claims-making exercises that constitute examples of bordering processes. These debates establish cultural borders around online communities and foster new virtual geographies of counter-hegemonic movements of the far right, that transcend and challenge the role and relevance of the physical border as a container for these movements. The paper concludes by placing these findings within current theoretical framings of the a-territorial border, with particular attention to what implications these have for the Pacific Northwest.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 563-580
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1571935
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Author-Name: William Jesse Baltutis
Author-X-Name-First: William Jesse
Author-X-Name-Last: Baltutis
Author-Name: Michele-Lee Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Michele-Lee
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Whose Border? Contested Geographies and Columbia River Treaty Modernization
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This paper explores the links between contemporary bordering processes, Indigenous nations traditional territories, and transboundary water governance processes, using the case of the Columbia River Treaty (CRT) modernization process. We posit the Columbia River is shared not just by two nations, but also by multiple Indigenous nations with various inter-nation borders. To-date, the implications of this in practice do not appear to mean a re-imagination of borders, changes in legal authority for CRT renegotiation and implementation, or rethinking the state-centric institutions in which governance of the Columbia River is based. Three primary themes emerged from the empirical data that illustrate: (1) a reaffirmation of state-centric discourse on borders and bordering processes in CRT modernization, while (2) at the same time we see changes in the legal landscape in Canada and the U.S. that inform the obligations of colonial governments to move towards collaboration and shared governance with Indigenous nations on a government-to-government basis on issues impacting Indigenous interests. And, (3) emerging are the seeds of governance structures that seek to engage Indigenous nations within CRT renegotiation and implementation, including potentially providing a seat at the renegotiation table and including Indigenous nations within implementation structures for a modernized CRT.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 581-601
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1666730
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Author-Name: Alexander Gunn
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Gunn
Title: Immigration and Integration Policy and the Complexity of Multi-level Governance: A Case Study of British Columbia
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This article explores the role of different levels of government in managing the flow of migrants across Canada’s international borders and in integrating migrants into broader Canadian society. British Columbia is the focal point of the article as its recent experience in the immigration field is emblematic of broader decentralizing and re-centralizing trends within Canadian intergovernmental relations. More broadly, the B.C. experience reveals how the governance and management of Canada’s borders in relation to transnational migration has become more dependent on multi-level cooperation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 603-618
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1619472
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Author-Name: Pum Khan Pau
Author-X-Name-First: Pum Khan
Author-X-Name-Last: Pau
Title: Transborder People, Connected History: Border and Relationships in the Indo-Burma Borderlands
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The paper presents the perspective of “transborder peoples” who constitute the minority in the states in which they live but have “connected history.” It probes how indigenous notions of space, territory, and identity had been displaced, reconfigured and fragmented by colonial map-making, territoriality, and classifications in the Indo-Burma borderlands, a less known “peripheral” area which has for far too long been only seen from the perspective of the colonial and postcolonial states. The paper examines to what extent are the Indo-Burma borderlands a space where one can see decay and revival of relationships among the transborder people. Moving beyond state-centric conceptions of the border as “fixed lines,” the paper gives emphasis on the “duality” or “paradoxical character” of the borderlands. It argues that while colonial and postcolonial borders divided indigenous communities thereby creating “difference” or “otherness,” it also “unifies” and facilitates revival of relationships among the “transborder peoples” through dialogue, interaction and exchange across the border. It is a case study of the Zo people of the Indo-Burma borderlands.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 619-639
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1438914
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Author-Name: Alix N. Naugler
Author-X-Name-First: Alix N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Naugler
Author-Name: Stephen J. Conroy
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Conroy
Title: Motivations for Mexican-US Migration: Does the Economy Matter?
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This research examines Mexican immigrants’ motivations for crossing into the US to evaluate whether macroeconomic conditions affect these motivations. Using a data set of 44,017 Mexican migrants from 2010 through September 2016 and controlling for personal factors, results indicate economic motivations are moderated by US macroeconomic conditions and in the expected way, i.e. the US unemployment rate (growth rate) is inversely (directly) associated with economic motivations to cross into the US and positively associated with non-economic (familial-based) motivations. Results also suggest that Mexican migrants coming to the US in the wake of the Great Recession (i.e. in 2010 and 2011) were much less likely to cross for economic reasons than those crossing in 2015 and 2016, while those crossing in 2013 and 2014 were more likely to cross for economic reasons. We suspect nationalistic rhetoric amplified by Trump’s campaign for US president may have crowded out economic motivations as immigrants expected the proposed anti-immigrant policies to reduce the availability of US economic opportunities. Similar support for macroeconomic “push” effects from the Mexican economy were not found. Additionally, economic and familial-based motivations for migrating appear to be substitutes and both respond to US macroeconomic conditions though in opposite ways.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 641-655
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1445548
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Author-Name: Meghna Kajla
Author-X-Name-First: Meghna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kajla
Title: “Refugees, citizenship and belonging in South Asia; contested terrains”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 657-659
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1683055
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Author-Name: Francesco Cappellano
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Cappellano
Title: The role of the international border in high-tech economies
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 661-662
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1692229
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Author-Name: Dhananjay Tripathi
Author-X-Name-First: Dhananjay
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi
Title: Borders and mobility in South Asia and beyond
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 663-665
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1700389
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Author-Name: Sylvia Meichsner
Author-X-Name-First: Sylvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Meichsner
Title: Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms. The Roots of Impermanence
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 667-668
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1719865
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Author-Name: Saleh Shahriar
Author-X-Name-First: Saleh
Author-X-Name-Last: Shahriar
Title: Transnational drug trafficking across the Vietnam–Laos border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 669-671
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1723124
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Author-Name: Sergio Peña
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Peña
Author-Name: Christophe Sohn
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Sohn
Title: Introduction to a New “Commentaries” Section in the Journal of Borderlands Studies
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 673-674
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1806446
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Author-Name: Manuel E. Riaño-Garzón
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Riaño-Garzón
Author-Name: Nathalie C. Raynaud
Author-X-Name-First: Nathalie C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Raynaud
Author-Name: Neida Albornoz-Arias
Author-X-Name-First: Neida
Author-X-Name-Last: Albornoz-Arias
Author-Name: Rina Mazuera-Arias
Author-X-Name-First: Rina
Author-X-Name-Last: Mazuera-Arias
Title: Perceived severity of smuggling at the border of Táchira-North of Santander: Health Psychology Approach
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This study analyzed the differences in the perception of severity of smuggling between consumers and smugglers of the Colombian-Venezuelan border. A correlational-comparative design was used, and the population selected was the inhabitants of North of Santander Department, Colombia, calculating a stratified randomized sampling for 2,383 people. It was found that 6% of the sample belonged to illegal traders, being mostly men. The comparison performed by sex concluded that the level of severity perceived is greater in women, and both groups gave greater relevance to the risk of losing the economic investment front others risks of more severity. The comparison by municipalities, revealed that the capital presented lower levels of perceived severity than other territories. In addition, greater perceived severity of smuggling in young adults, heads of household, married people, traders who earned less than two Colombian minimum wages and who traded individually were identified. Finally, a positive relationship was found between the level of perceived severity and conditions such as the number of products smuggled or work income.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 675-692
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1457976
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Author-Name: Rachel Sharples
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharples
Title: Movements Across Space: A Conceptual Framework for the Thai–Burma Borderlands
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The Thai–Burma borderlands is a site of political and social transformation. This transformation is informed by an interchange that occurs across the national border—people, ideas, culture, information, resources, and identity. This articulation of a borderlands space challenges the geo-political narrative of the state and the bounded nature of state mechanisms. In particular, the tendency of states to treat borders as static and stable and to use borders as a means of determining belonging and not belonging. Instead, the Thai–Burma borderlands is a microcosm of human society, defined by processes of contestation and transformation that give alternative meanings to the space.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 693-708
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1438915
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Author-Name: Mona Chettri
Author-X-Name-First: Mona
Author-X-Name-Last: Chettri
Author-Name: Duncan McDuie-Ra
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: McDuie-Ra
Title: Delinquent Borderlands: Disorder and Exception in the Eastern Himalaya
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In Sikkim, India’s model development state, the government implements wide-ranging control over its territory through laws, regulations, and coercion. As a border town neighboring West Bengal, Jorethang is a zone of transgression that blurs urban and rural space, migrant and citizen subjects, and licit and illicit activities. In this paper, we use a walking ethnography of Jorethang town and border crossings to make three arguments. First, as Jorethang has grown the Government of Sikkim has effectively abdicated enforcing the spatial order it enforces elsewhere in Sikkim, enabling Jorethang to be ruled—in effect—by commercial interests. Second, Jorethang’s growth has been fueled by migrants drawn to work on infrastructure projects, in private construction, and in illicit cross-border trade. This is an alternative story of urban growth in a rapidly urbanizing border state and is in contrast to the highly planned urban development evident in other parts of Sikkim. Third, Jorethang offers a glimpse of the bifurcated urban future of the eastern Himalayas. While model modernity is manifest in showpiece urban areas such as Namchi and Gangtok, border towns like Jorethang have become zones to supply, service, and profit from model modernity without being bound by its rules. Through these arguments we identify the internal border between Sikkim and West Bengal as a crucial division between different spatial orders, between the model development state of Sikkim and the imploding tracts of adjacent West Bengal. In Jorethang these orders merge bridging the orderly and disorderly and providing opportunities for development through delinquency.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 709-723
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1452166
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Author-Name: Simon Oyewole Oginni
Author-X-Name-First: Simon Oyewole
Author-X-Name-Last: Oginni
Author-Name: Maxwell Peprah Opoku
Author-X-Name-First: Maxwell Peprah
Author-X-Name-Last: Opoku
Author-Name: Beatrice Atim Alupo
Author-X-Name-First: Beatrice Atim
Author-X-Name-Last: Alupo
Title: Terrorism in the Lake Chad Region: Integration of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
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The Lake Chad region is an intersection of four countries, namely Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Niger, and has been a battleground of terrorism in recent years. While much is known about the devastating impact of the activities of Boko Haram, there is a dearth of empirical research on how individuals displaced by terrorism in the Lake Chad region have been integrated into new communities. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) regarding their integration into new communities in the Lake Chad region. The study adopted a qualitative design, that is, interviews and focus group discussions, to interact with participants from nine communities in Cameroon and Nigeria. Sixty-seven participants consisting of refugees, IDPs, host community leaders, and camp leaders were recruited to share their experiences. The study found similarities in the experiences of refugees and IDPs. Specifically, the study found that common identity (i.e. common culture and languages) enhanced social connection, safety, and integration of the refugees and IDPs into new communities. However, little has been done in terms of job creation, to enable refugees to have a source of livelihood, access to property, and essential services. The study has implications for policy-making in terms of governments in the Lake Chad region capitalizing on common identity and developing employable programs which will revitalize the economy of the region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 725-741
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1457975
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Author-Name: W. David McCorkle
Author-X-Name-First: W. David
Author-X-Name-Last: McCorkle
Author-Name: Heidi Cian
Author-X-Name-First: Heidi
Author-X-Name-Last: Cian
Title: Crossing a Second Border for South Carolina DACA Students
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This qualitative, narrative study explores the stories of three DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients in the state of South Carolina who have had to face educational and career restrictions due to their immigration status. This article examines how the students came to the country, their early educational experiences, how they learned about the state restrictions, and how it has affected their lives. A common theme emerges of the students having to cross a second border of state policy in order to pursue their educational and career goals.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 743-758
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1462239
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Author-Name: Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega
Author-X-Name-First: Luis Alfredo
Author-X-Name-Last: Arriola Vega
Title: A New Agenda to Study the Guatemala–Mexico/Mexico–Guatemala Border(Lands) Region
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This paper introduces a proposal to reconsider the way the Mexico–Guatemala border(lands) region is conceived. The border(lands) expanse is usually portrayed as a uniform entity. Generalizations are made from a single locality, thus obscuring the diversity of the area. Also, the Mexican viewpoint has prevailed in the reading of this border(lands) region, instead of adopting a compound perspective that takes into account the Guatemalan angle. These and other issues are discussed at length along with ideas to redress existing shortcomings. The use of a regional approach is advanced as an analytical tool and a planning policy instrument to overcome this problematic. A sub-regional classification will reveal, for instance, the heterogeneous conditions that prevail across the international boundary. This typology is meant as a starting point to plan and implement further collaborative research agendas and integrated policy initiatives that respond to the idiosyncrasy of the border(lands) region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 759-780
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1462240
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Author-Name: Munroe Eagles
Author-X-Name-First: Munroe
Author-X-Name-Last: Eagles
Title: At War Over the Peace Bridge. A Case Study in the Vulnerability of Binational Institutions
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Bridges are powerful symbols of the overcoming of differences. This is particularly true of the Peace Bridge that spans the international border formed by the Niagara River and links together southern Ontario and western New York. When it was dedicated on August 7, 1927, the Peace Bridge was named to commemorate more than a century of peaceful relations and prosperity between Canada and the United States. Illustrating the close ties the bridge has helped foster, the structure has become the second busiest crossing on the Canadian–American border. Yet, precisely as the two countries commemorated two centuries of peaceful and (largely) harmonious relations since the end of the War of 1812, the governance of the Peace Bridge descended into a crisis that a journalist dubbed the “war of 2012”. This paper will describe the circumstances that led to the deterioration of relations between the five Canadian and five American members of the facility’s governing board. What emerges from a close account of the debacle is a portrait of the fragility of binational organizations and a reminder of what is required for them to operate smoothly.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 781-799
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1465354
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Author-Name: James M. Hundley
Author-X-Name-First: James M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hundley
Title: Whither an International Issue: The Columbia River Treaty, the Canada/US Border, and the Curious Case of Libby, MT
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International borders are an integral component of multilevel governance theorizing in other parts of the world, mainly Europe. This is seldom the focus for theorizing or explicating events and relationships at North American borders. This is particularly clear at the Canada/US border where local jurisdictions are often excluded from international discussions. This article examines the efforts of one Montana legislator to gain compensation for losses incurred under the Columbia River Treaty and the creation of the binational Lake Koocanusa reservoir. The Treaty established a series of dams to control seasonal flooding and provide inexpensive hydropower. September 16, 2014 was the 50-year anniversary of the Treaty and first possible date by which either country could give notice to withdraw; neither party wants to withdraw but both are interested in renegotiating certain components. This article argues that the Treaty shifts between being viewed as a domestic and international issue obscuring the role of the local. Scholars need to employ multilevel governance and the concept of the region in our theorizing of borders to incorporate local level actors in what is largely an international political domain. Understanding how power operates at and through the border, at these various scales, necessitates including relevant local actors.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 801-818
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1471731
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Author-Name: Olivier Thomas Kramsch
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Kramsch
Title: Remembering Chris Rumford (1958–2016)
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 819-827
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1816112
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Author-Name: Michael Palmieri
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Palmieri
Title: Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 829-830
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1723125
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Author-Name: Martin Kerntopf
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kerntopf
Title: Citizens in Motion Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration Across China's Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 831-832
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1723126
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Author-Name: Jessica Becker
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Becker
Title: Refugees, migration and global governance: negotiating the global compacts
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 833-834
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1723127
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Author-Name: Lyudmila Austin
Author-X-Name-First: Lyudmila
Author-X-Name-Last: Austin
Title: At the edge of the nation: the Southern Kurils and the search for Russia’s national identity
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 835-836
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1723128
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Author-Name: Andreanne Bissonnette
Author-X-Name-First: Andreanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Bissonnette
Title: Chaos as a Tool of Insecurity: Detention and Deportation in the United States and Ecuador
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 837-838
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1723129
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Author-Name: Ikhsan Darmawan
Author-X-Name-First: Ikhsan
Author-X-Name-Last: Darmawan
Title: What is a Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 839-840
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1727761
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Author-Name: Omar Camarillo
Author-X-Name-First: Omar
Author-X-Name-Last: Camarillo
Title: Who are Deemed the “Worthy” and “Unworthy” Victims of Mexico’s Drug-Related Violence?
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There have been numerous victims of Mexico’s drug-related violence since 2006. This research addresses two questions: (1) Who are the individuals who have been involved and targeted by drug-trafficking organizations?, and (2) What are the effects of the media portrayal of these victims? The data utilizes The New York Times and El Universal reports of the victims’ deaths from Mexico’s drug-related violence from 2009–2012. The deaths of police officers, government officials, Mexican citizens, American citizens, US agents, journalists, immigrants, and drug- trafficking members are categorized utilizing an amplified version of Herman and Chomsky’s idea of worthy and unworthy victims. Findings clarify why Mexican agents and officials, Mexican citizens, American citizens, US agents, and journalists fall under the heading of “worthy” victims while immigrants and drug trafficking members fall under the heading of “unworthy” victims.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-15
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1471732
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Author-Name: Jessica Becker
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Becker
Title: Speaking to The Wall: Reconceptualizing the US–Mexico Border “Wall” from the Perspective of a Realist and Constructivist Theoretical Framework in International Relations
Abstract:
In his 2016 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump has promised to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the US–Mexico border. The desire to build and fortify border structures around the world has accelerated since the Cold War. After a brief discussion of the historical tradition of border walls, I illustrate how these structures are neither functional nor feasible; rather, as others have pointed out, they are performative. The paper identifies two competing perspectives on borders in international relations. Realists believe that in the face of threats to its sovereignty, a state must ensure its own survival by doubling down on borders. This kind of response however results in a cycle of border militarization which is highly evident in places like Nogales, Arizona. A social constructivist perspective in international relations can provide a way of thinking outside of the dominant realist paradigm as constructivism relies on a discussion about the ideas that underlie our understanding of border security. Borderlands are fluid and highly contested spaces through which changing perceptions on border security can be readily observed. Countering the border-as-weapon narrative established by Trump will not be an easy task; however, ongoing efforts to change norms reveal great potential for reconceptualizing borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 17-29
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1482775
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Author-Name: Richard V. Adkisson
Author-X-Name-First: Richard V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Adkisson
Author-Name: Francisco J. Pallares
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pallares
Title: Presidential Voting in the 2016 US Presidential Election: Impacts of the US–Mexico Border and Border Integration
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The 2016 presidential election brought many proposals to the fore, several with potentially significant impacts in the US–Mexico border region. Republican candidate, Donald Trump, promised to build a border wall, return manufacturing jobs to the US, impose import tariffs, and scrap or renegotiate existing trade agreements, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper examines county-level presidential voting in the four US states bordering Mexico. Two hypotheses are tested. One, in general, that voters in Mexico-adjacent counties voted differently to voters in non-border-adjacent counties. Two, that voters in border-adjacent counties voted differently based on the degree of interdependence between their county and residents on the Mexican side of the border. The evidence suggests that votes for candidate Trump were negatively related to the degree of county interdependence with Mexico.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 31-47
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1483736
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Author-Name: Markus Heide
Author-X-Name-First: Markus
Author-X-Name-Last: Heide
Title: “Learning from Las Vegas”: Border Aesthetics, Disturbance, and Electronic Disobedience. An Interview with Performance Artist Ricardo Dominguez
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 49-57
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1490197
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Author-Name: Marijn Molema
Author-X-Name-First: Marijn
Author-X-Name-Last: Molema
Title: Bright Ideas, Thick Institutions. Post-industrial Development Theories as Drivers of Cross-border Cooperation
Abstract:
Administrative frameworks from different European countries meet each other in the territorial entity of the so-called “Euroregion” or “Euregio.” Social scientists have reflected on the administrative capacity of these political entities, and stressed the importance of historical variables. This contribution adds to one of these historical variables: the evolution of economic ideas. Inspired by Blyth’s theory that ideas precede institutional change, the article reviews the paradigmatic shift from industrial to endogenous growth theory in the 1970s and 1980s. New ideas stimulated cooperation on cross-border development strategies, thus changing the role of borders in Europe. This process is illustrated with examples from the Dutch-German border region. From an historical perspective, the success of Euroregions cannot be assessed by looking on the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation in the present day alone. The history of the last decades deserves our attention too. Especially the role of Euroregions in the process of translating endogenous growth ideas into the practice of regional economic policies requires more academic attention.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 59-75
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1496467
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Author-Name: Vanessa van den Boogaard
Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa
Author-X-Name-Last: van den Boogaard
Author-Name: Wilson Prichard
Author-X-Name-First: Wilson
Author-X-Name-Last: Prichard
Author-Name: Samuel Jibao
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Jibao
Title: Norms, Networks, Power and Control: Understanding Informal Payments and Brokerage in Cross-Border Trade in Sierra Leone
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Recent research has cast light on the variety of informal payments and practices that govern the day-to-day interactions between traders and customs agents at border posts in low-income countries. Building on this literature, this paper draws on survey and qualitative evidence in an effort to explore which groups are most advantaged and disadvantaged by the largely informal processes and norms governing cross-border trade. We find that variation in strategies and outcomes across traders can only be effectively understood with reference to the importance of norms, networks, power, and the logic of control.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 77-97
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1510333
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Author-Name: Adi Weidenfeld
Author-X-Name-First: Adi
Author-X-Name-Last: Weidenfeld
Author-Name: Peter Björk
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Björk
Author-Name: Allan M. Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Allan M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Identifying Cultural and Cognitive Proximity Between Managers and Customers in Tornio and Haparanda Cross-Border Region
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Daily intercultural interactions in cross-border regions such as those between customers and managers can be a source of knowledge and ideas. However, such interactions can pose distinctive constraints and opportunities for learning and exchange of ideas. This study adopts a relatively fine–grained quantitative approach to study elements of cognitive and cultural proximity which have a major impact on these interactions. It is based on a survey of 91 managers of small service firms and 312 customers in the twin city of Tornio and Haparanda on the border between Finland and Sweden. Seven elements of proximity were identified and measured. Six elements of perceived cognitive and cultural proximity including values, conservative values towards new ideas, knowledge and use of technology, use of a foreign language, sufficiently focusing or providing specific details and ways of solving problems were found significant in terms of shaping perceptions of Swedish and Finnish managers and customers, which shape these interactions. The results enhance our understanding of how daily cross-border intercultural can be examined in the context of cross-border regional knowledge transfer.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 99-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1510335
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Author-Name: Samuel Kehinde Okunade
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Kehinde
Author-X-Name-Last: Okunade
Author-Name: Olusola Ogunnubi
Author-X-Name-First: Olusola
Author-X-Name-Last: Ogunnubi
Title: A “Schengen” Agreement in Africa? African Agency and the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement
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Established in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was conceived, primarily to facilitate free trade and movement of persons, goods and services within the sub-region. Although preceding the lauded Schengen Treaty which created a single external border for the European Union (EU) in 1985, the ECOWAS Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons and Goods established in 1979 aimed to convert borders from walls into “bridges”. This paper examines the implementation of the ECOWAS Protocol by member states in order to establish whether the Protocol has strengthened or flagged the porosity of West African borders. In addition, the study explores the recurring challenges that impede the successful implementation of the Protocol as an expression of Africa’s agency for regional integration. The authors conclude with suggestions on what is required to address these impediments to pave the way for the fulfillment of ECOWAS’ aspiration of an open border system.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 119-137
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1530128
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Author-Name: Kundan Mishra
Author-X-Name-First: Kundan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mishra
Title: Open borders: in defense of free movement
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 139-140
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1727762
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Author-Name: Misty Prigent
Author-X-Name-First: Misty
Author-X-Name-Last: Prigent
Title: Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 141-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1727763
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Author-Name: Johanna Pettersson
Author-X-Name-First: Johanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Pettersson
Title: Bordering
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 143-144
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1727764
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Author-Name: Michael J. Pisani
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pisani
Title: Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 145-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1730932
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Author-Name: Sara Svensson
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Svensson
Title: Borderless worlds for whom? Ethics, moralities and mobilities
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 147-148
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1735482
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Author-Name: Machteld Venken
Author-X-Name-First: Machteld
Author-X-Name-Last: Venken
Author-Name: Virpi Kaisto
Author-X-Name-First: Virpi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaisto
Author-Name: Chiara Brambilla
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Brambilla
Title: Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 149-158
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1898447
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Author-Name: Machteld Venken
Author-X-Name-First: Machteld
Author-X-Name-Last: Venken
Title: Borderland Child Heterotopias. A Case Study on the Belgian-German Borderlands
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This article investigates the capacities of children to participate actively in their lives in the Belgian-German borderlands in the time period between World War I and World War II. The article interprets a body of historical sources that has hitherto been left unexplored – namely, borderland child ego documents – with the help of insights from child studies and border studies. These ego documents unfold as borderland child heterotopias. Borderland child heterotopias include material places and creative linguistic loci established by or for those considered in crisis in relation to the rest of society based on their age within or outside child spaces of modernity. The borderland child heterotopias offer a unique gateway to borderland children’s past imaginations for a better world.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 159-180
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1824679
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Author-Name: Lisbeth Matzer
Author-X-Name-First: Lisbeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Matzer
Title: Be(com)ing “German”. Borderland Ideologies and Hitler Youth in NS-occupied Slovenia (1941–1945)
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On the example of the Austrian-Slovenian borderlands Upper Carniola and Lower Styria under National Socialist occupation, the article examines Germanization practices directed at youth as part of the Nazi struggle for domination in Europe. Following a historical example of how to approach the topic of youth in contested borderlands in terms of theory, sources and methodology, this investigation questions categorizations of belonging deployed in these areas. It shows that the ideological fight for border regions may rely and build upon a long tradition of emphasizing and evoking the very “borderness” of territories and people. These specific narratives are called borderland ideologies and rely on harsh differentiations between “us” and “them” characterized by a high degree of flexibility and ambiguity. This vagueness of being and becoming “German”1 is elaborated based on the example of the Hitler Youth’s involvement in defining and spreading this supposed “Germanness”. In this manner, the article demonstrates that the cornerstones of grouping and ordering people were constructed categories such as culture, language and descent. Showing that the grounds for evaluation as well as the hierarchy of the latter were interchanged in subjective and opportunistic ways, the article puts national, ethnical and cultural claims of belonging into question.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 181-199
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1810589
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Author-Name: Olga Gnydiuk
Author-X-Name-First: Olga
Author-X-Name-Last: Gnydiuk
Title: Bordering and Repatriation: Displaced Unaccompanied Children from the Polish–Ukrainian Borderland after World War II
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After the end of World War II, the welfare workers of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and, from 1947, the International Refugee Organization (IRO) took care of displaced children and helped them to return to their home countries. This paper explores how the post-war controversies between the Soviet and Anglo-American governments and (re)bordering of the Polish–Soviet borderland changed the welfare workers’ approach to interpret belonging of unaccompanied displaced children of presumably Ukrainian origin. In the winter of 1945 the region of Eastern Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union. In the summer of 1945, British and American officials declared that they refused to recognize the acquisition of these territories by the Soviet Union. In result, the repatriation of unaccompanied Ukrainian children who originally came from this borderland became the subjects of intense controversy between the former Allies. The welfare workers used the fact of these children's belonging to the Polish–Soviet borderland as an argument against their repatriation to the Soviet Union. By looking into the social dimension of bordering processes, this article suggests that the UNRRA's and IRO's social workers redefined the border between the two countries in their daily work.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 201-218
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1768882
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Author-Name: Marijana Hameršak
Author-X-Name-First: Marijana
Author-X-Name-Last: Hameršak
Author-Name: Iva Pleše
Author-X-Name-First: Iva
Author-X-Name-Last: Pleše
Title: Passing by In/Visibly: The Lone Child in the Croatian Section of the Balkan Refugee Corridor
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The Balkan refugee corridor was active in 2015 and 2016 in order to facilitate and control the movement of refugees towards their destination countries in the EU. In this article, the Slavonski Brod camp, a kind of obligatory stopover in the Croatian section of the Balkan corridor, is approached as a site where the concept of a “lone child” in migration was defined and re-defined in practice. After presenting a short overview of the corridor and the camp, and the genealogy of the concept of the child traveling alone, the article discusses the procedures and practices regarding the position of such a child in this unique form of the European migration regime. The article focuses on the interrelation between changing norms of the corridor and conceptualization/behavior of “lone child” in migration. In that framework we follow the transformation of child traveling alone as privileged humanitarian subject to the child traveling alone as competent social actor.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 219-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1735481
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Author-Name: Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lemberg-Pedersen
Title: The Humanitarianization of Child Deportation Politics
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This article develops a multidisciplinary analysis of the Northern European policy drive to deport unaccompanied minors (UAMs) to so-called reception facilities in Kabul, Afghanistan. These policies and practices are traced through the analytical frameworks of deportation corridors and humanitarian borders, and relying on archival material and interview data from Nordic and afghan public bureaucracies, the ERPUM project, the UNHCR and the IOM. The article conceptualizes the Afghan deportation corridors as one variant of “humanitarianized borders.” It is examined how European deportation politics for unaccompanied minors from 2000 to 2018 has shifted from portraying unaccompanied minors as being “a risk” to being “at risk” within an overarching political ambition of turning them deportable. European states increasingly do this through appeals to child rights and seemingly compassionate concepts like “family tracing,” “family reunification,” “reintegration,” and “care and education facilities” inscribed within narratives of vulnerable, irrational children and the universal family paving the way for humanitarianized care and control. This inscription re-constructs the agency and identity of both displaced children and of humanitarian practice. The article help establish a dialogue between the studies of deportation, humanitarian borders and child life in European border control.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 239-258
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1835524
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Author-Name: Virpi Kaisto
Author-X-Name-First: Virpi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaisto
Author-Name: Chloe Wells
Author-X-Name-First: Chloe
Author-X-Name-Last: Wells
Title: Mental Mapping as a Method for Studying Borders and Bordering in Young People’s Territorial Identifications
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This paper analyzes and compares two mental mapping studies – one with young people (aged 16–19) in Finland and one with Finnish and Russian young people (aged 9–15) in the Finnish-Russian borderland. These studies show that mental mapping is a valuable method which can illuminate crucial aspects of how borders and bordering are related to young people’s territorial identifications. We argue that it is important to pay special attention to the research methodology, including the mapping scale and the complementary data collection methods, as these determine what aspects of borders and bordering in young people’s territorial identifications can be discovered, and how profoundly identification processes can be studied with mental maps. This paper contributes to the theoretical discussion on borders and territorial identity by visualizing the complexity of how borders and territorial identifications are intertwined, and how young people engage in the social, cultural and mental construction of borders and the negotiation of territorial identities. The paper enriches the mental mapping methodology by demonstrating two different ways mental maps can be used for studying young people’s territorial identifications.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 259-279
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1719864
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Author-Name: Vannessa Falcón Orta
Author-X-Name-First: Vannessa
Author-X-Name-Last: Falcón Orta
Author-Name: Gerald Monk
Author-X-Name-First: Gerald
Author-X-Name-Last: Monk
Title: Creating Change in Higher Education Through Transfronterizx Student-led Grassroots Initiatives in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
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The purpose of this participatory action research study was to ignite change in higher education institutions through grassroots student-led initiatives focused on creating inclusive campus environments for Transfronterizx college students at the San Diego-Tijuana border region. A total of 15 stakeholders participated in this study, 11 Transfronterizx college students, and four faculty and higher education professional allies. The data of this participatory action research study was collected through a cyclical approach in five different phases consisting of one-on-one interviews and focus groups. The process of implementing institutional change in higher education through student-led initiatives is illustrated in the findings of this study that parallel Elliot’s ([1991]. Action Research for Educational Change. McGraw-Hill Education.) five phases of participatory action research: (a) Identifying and clarifying the general idea; (b) Reconnaissance; (c) Constructing the general plan; (d) Developing the next action steps; and (e) Implementing the next action steps. This study led to the inception of the Transfronterizx Alliance Student Organization (TASO) at San Diego State University (SDSU), a grassroots student-led movement dedicated to fostering the success of Transfronterizx college students at the San Diego-Tijuana border region. These findings are further illustrated through the thoughts, feelings and experiences that participants shared about creating institutional change in higher education.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 281-300
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1735480
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Author-Name: Jonathan Obert
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Obert
Title: Policing the Boundary and Bounding the Police: Fictitious Borders and the Making of Gendarmeries in North America
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This article argues that the mismatch between the legal fictions of the boundaries separating the states of late nineteenth century North America and the reality of local trans-border life helped drive the militarization of borderlands policing. The form this militarization took, in turn, reflected administrative state development; that is, whether they were relatively unitary and centralized, like Canada, or whether they were marked by fragmentation and local autonomy, like Mexico and the US. I use the example of state gendarmeries – mounted, armed policing units combining military and law enforcement functions – to explore this claim.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 301-318
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1615532
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Author-Name: Olayinka Akanle
Author-X-Name-First: Olayinka
Author-X-Name-Last: Akanle
Author-Name: Olufunke A. Fayehun
Author-X-Name-First: Olufunke A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Fayehun
Author-Name: Gbenga S. Adejare
Author-X-Name-First: Gbenga S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Adejare
Author-Name: Otomi A. Orobome
Author-X-Name-First: Otomi A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Orobome
Title: International Migration, Kinship Networks and Social Capital in Southwestern Nigeria
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International migration attracts global concern as international migration and its remittances are highly important mechanisms with profound implications for family, community, and national and international sustainability across borderlines. The demand for workers in most industrialized countries in order to sustain national economies and aspiration of migrants from less industrialized nations for better job opportunities and better ways of life have continued to foster migration and challenge constructions of social capital. As well as various push and pull factors, kinship networks and familial social relations serve as major drivers of migration. Consequently, various social structures and development projectiles in the giving and receiving nations are implicated. Thus, this study delved into interrogating the contours of how remittances in terms of patterns and perceptions embedded in migrations and social relations of migrants and their kin in selected locations in Ibadan. This study utilized a purely qualitative method of research because the subject matter focuses on making sense of meanings people attach to migration, remittance and supports as social capital towards understanding migration dynamics. Data were purposively collected through in-depth interviews in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. A total of 40 interviews were conducted. This article makes an important contribution to the data and literature on motivations to migrate.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 319-332
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1619475
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Author-Name: Tuulia Reponen
Author-X-Name-First: Tuulia
Author-X-Name-Last: Reponen
Title: The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 333-334
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1735483
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Author-Name: Md. Harun-Or Rashid
Author-X-Name-First: Md. Harun-Or
Author-X-Name-Last: Rashid
Title: India–Bangladesh Border Dispute: History and Post-LBA Dynamics
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 335-336
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1748517
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Author-Name: Erika R. Rendón-Ramos
Author-X-Name-First: Erika R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rendón-Ramos
Title: Borders of belonging: struggle and solidarity in mixed-status immigrant families
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 337-338
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1748518
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Author-Name: Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
Author-X-Name-First: Pierre-Alexandre
Author-X-Name-Last: Beylier
Title: Native but Foreign – Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 339-340
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1761861
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Author-Name: Syed Eesar Mehdi
Author-X-Name-First: Syed Eesar
Author-X-Name-Last: Mehdi
Title: The line of control: travelling with the Indian and Pakistani armies
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 341-342
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1761862
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Author-Name: Samuel Norton Chambers
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Norton
Author-X-Name-Last: Chambers
Author-Name: Geoffrey Alan Boyce
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Boyce
Author-Name: Sarah Launius
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Launius
Author-Name: Alicia Dinsmore
Author-X-Name-First: Alicia
Author-X-Name-Last: Dinsmore
Title: Mortality, Surveillance and the Tertiary “Funnel Effect” on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Geospatial Modeling of the Geography of Deterrence
Abstract:
Theories of migration deterrence have long posited that border enforcement infrastructure pushes migration routes into more rugged and deadly terrain, driving an increase in migrant mortality. Applying geospatial analysis of landscape and human variables in one highly-trafficked corridor of the Arizona / Sonora border, we test whether the expansion of surveillance infrastructure has in fact shifted migrants’ routes toward areas that are more remote and difficult to traverse. We deploy a modeling methodology, typically used in archaeological and military science, to measure the energy expenditure of persons traversing the borderlands. Outcomes of this model are then compared to the changes in border infrastructure and records of fatality locations. Findings show that there is a significant correlation between the location of border surveillance technology, the routes taken by migrants, and the locations of recovered human remains in the southern Arizona desert. Placed in the context of ongoing efforts by the United States to geographically expand and concentrate border surveillance and enforcement infrastructure, we argue that this suggests a third “funnel effect” that has the outcome of maximizing the physiological toll imposed by the landscape on unauthorized migrants, long after migration routes have moved away from traditional urban crossing areas.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 443-468
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1570861
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Author-Name: Rachel Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: The INS on the Line: Making immigration law on the US-Mexico border, 1917-1954
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 519-521
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1777890
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Author-Name: Fabienne Leloup
Author-X-Name-First: Fabienne
Author-X-Name-Last: Leloup
Title: Security at the borders. Transnational practices and technologies in West Africa
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 517-518
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1777889
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Author-Name: Joachim Beck
Author-X-Name-First: Joachim
Author-X-Name-Last: Beck
Title: Territorial Institutionalism – Capturing a Horizontal Dimension of the European Administrative Space
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As part of European integration, the interaction between different administrative levels has become more intense over years. Accordingly the concept of the European Administrative Space (EAS) has been gaining increasing interest from both academia and practitioners. Going beyond a classical vertical multi-level perception, and focusing on the unsettled transnational patterns of inter-administrative cooperation in border-regions, the article suggests understanding approaches of institutionalization, taking place within the context of European territorial cooperation as an integral horizontal dimension of the EAS. Based on empirical findings that evidence by what patterns such horizontal institutionalizations in the field of European cross-border cooperation are characterized, the article develops a classification for the different forms of territorial institutionalism and suggests a set of intervening territorial variables, complementing established independent variables of neo-institutionalism in order to differentiate further analysis. As a conclusion perspectives of research are developed that may allow to better capture the diversity of forms of European territorial institutionalism and to recognize the role that cross-border territories are playing for the embellishment of the European Administrative Space.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 361-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1530608
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Author-Name: Mary J. N. Okolie
Author-X-Name-First: Mary J. N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Okolie
Title: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnic Bordering: Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn
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The vastness of politics as a subject of discourse can best be grasped in border studies because politics encompasses both spatial and imaginary borders that distinguish one nation/state from another. The existence of spatial borderlines creates territorial demarcations that differentiate geopolitical settings within which policies that establish national identity are forged. But where the disparity in policy exists, national identity tends to fall apart. This is the case with Nigeria whose national identity was built on a questionable colonial policy which neglected the diversity of interests and cultures among the various ethnic groups hastily amalgamated into a single political entity. Literature grapples with political complexity and makes it easily comprehensible through narrative performativity. Chukwuemeka Ike’s novel Sunset at Dawn delineates the intricacy of bordering and debordering that shaped (and continues to shape) the Nigerian nation. I argue here that the identity formation in Nigeria is largely a function of the tensions that characterize both spatial and ideological borders of ethnicity, highlighting the novel’s exposure of the nuances of socio-spatial negotiation which calls for ethnic inclusivity in nation-building.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 503-516
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1571936
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Author-Name: Tal Yaar-Waisel
Author-X-Name-First: Tal
Author-X-Name-Last: Yaar-Waisel
Title: Bordering on the Impossible: Optimistic Planning of Border Regions
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“Bordering on the impossible” has a dual meaning: the phrase means to evoke the border as a bridge rather than a separation, in order to treat even a closed border region as a joint planning unit, and to see future options beyond the current situations. At the same time, the idiomatic meaning of the phrase acknowledges the difficulty in this task. Is it possible to plan today so that in the future we will enjoy cross-border collaboration? Will “optimistic planning” facilitate future collaboration? This article presents cases in which “cross-border” thinking was carried out in planning, even when the border was a closed one and between countries where there is still no treaty, let alone a peace treaty. In the research, such planning has been called “optimistic planning” since it sees a future of open borders and understands the importance of the planning today for its fulfillment in the future. A model for cross-border planning may allow planners and decision-makers of border regions to take into account both sides of the border. This model includes the region’s citizens and NGOs to take part in the planning process. The model includes two types of processes: one, when there is a possibility of cross-border collaboration, as has been learned from the European experience. The second part of the model is when, at this time, there is no possibility of cross-border cooperation, as has been learned from the study of the planning of Israel borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 389-404
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1531052
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Author-Name: Huub Dijstelbloem
Author-X-Name-First: Huub
Author-X-Name-Last: Dijstelbloem
Author-Name: Lieke van der Veer
Author-X-Name-First: Lieke
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Veer
Title: The Multiple Movements of the Humanitarian Border: The Portable Provision of Care and Control at the Aegean Islands
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The “humanitarian border” that emerged at the Aegean Islands of Chios and Lesbos during the so called “refugee crisis” arose out of various engagements with care and control. A humanitarian border can be said to consist of the entanglements between humanitarianism and securitization. But how do care and control materialize in practice and how can they move from one place to another? By combining the notion of the “humanitarian border” with the concept of “viapolitics” and an actor-network lens, and based on interviews with state authorities, volunteers and NGOs, this article brings in three claims. First, by studying the “missing masses”, the humanitarian border can be said to arise out of “conjoint actions” that concern engagement with peoples and objects of all sorts. Second, the humanitarian border is not only of a composite nature but of a mobile nature as well. Third, the interstructure of the humanitarian border is generated by a productive relationship between the fluidity of network configurations on the one hand and emerging frictions on the other. By studying the situated tensions between humanitarianism and securitization and focusing on the circulation of materialities of all sorts the movements that make up a humanitarian border can be displayed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 425-442
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1567371
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Author-Name: Joan B. Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Joan B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: They came to toil: newspaper representations of Mexicans and immigrants in the great depression
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 525-526
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1806096
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Author-Name: Małgorzata Bieńkowsk
Author-X-Name-First: Małgorzata
Author-X-Name-Last: Bieńkowsk
Title: Beyond the border. Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 527-528
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1816203
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Author-Name: Dorte Jagetic Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Dorte Jagetic
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
Author-X-Name-First: Eeva-Kaisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Prokkola
Title: Heritage as Bordering: Heritage Making, Ontological Struggles and the Politics of Memory in the Croatian and Finnish Borderlands
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Many borderlands have violent histories and therefore are focal sites for studying national war heritage and selective memory politics. The starting point of this paper is that when heritage becomes the institutionalized memory of a nation it simultaneously produces bordering and re-bordering effects in time and place. In heritage making some events and lives are understood to be worth commemorating simultaneously silencing the experiences of others. Yet heritage also offers possibilities to reconcile the different versions of traumatic historical events. In this paper, the analysis of heritage as bordering focuses on the town of Vukovar (Croatia) and on Raate Road (Finland) that both have gained symbolic meaning in the production of nationhood. It shows that multiple versions of bordering are materializing in the landscape of heritage in both borderlands. Although the hegemonic national narrative is strongly present in heritage making and commercialization, there are attempts to connect the national heritage to a more transnational, humanitarian and Europeanized version of heritage. The previously silenced voices of traumatized soldiers and families have also gained more recognition alongside the national heroic narrative. The competing versions of bordering often arouse ontological insecurity, however, transnational heritage making may offer possibilities for reconciliation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 405-424
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1555052
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Author-Name: Parisa Borzooie
Author-X-Name-First: Parisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Borzooie
Author-Name: Azadeh Lak
Author-X-Name-First: Azadeh
Author-X-Name-Last: Lak
Author-Name: Dallen J. Timothy
Author-X-Name-First: Dallen J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Timothy
Title: Designing Urban Customs and Border Marketplaces: A Model and Case Study From Lotfabad, Iran
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Even though Iran’s borders are vast, shared with seven neighboring states, its borderlands are socially and economically deprived owing to their remoteness from the capital and their marginal location on the national periphery. Therefore, considering the need for border development is essential. Because so many borderland residents survive through border-related commerce, improving this peripheral economy should lead to better economic development, quality of life, poverty reduction, and overall standard of living. These goals can be realized in part through vital infrastructure, including customs areas and border marketplaces that provide convenient shopping and leisure facilities, facilities for importing and exporting goods, as well as the entrance and departure of people. Based upon interviews with ten local specialists in a key Iranian border town, Lotfabad, and a Delphi panel with ten global border specialists, the study indicates that urban development perspectives and urban design provide a conceptual foundation for developing border areas. In this regard, a conceptual model for designing customs areas and border marketplaces comprised of economic, social, legal and physical dimensions was developed by considering principles such as passive defense, accessibility, variety, inclusiveness, vitality, infrastructure, visitability, identity and local architecture, sustainability, visual character, continuity and coherence, compatibility with nature, and environmental cleanliness. This model could help planners and urban designers in developing border regions more effectively.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 469-486
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1571430
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Author-Name: Francis Mullady
Author-X-Name-First: Francis
Author-X-Name-Last: Mullady
Title: Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880–1917 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 523-524
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1784034
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Author-Name: Iker Barbero
Author-X-Name-First: Iker
Author-X-Name-Last: Barbero
Title: The Struggle Against Deportation of Bangladeshi and Indian Immigrants at the Border Cities of Ceuta and Melilla: a Case Study of Citizenship After Orientalism
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Several groups of Bangladeshi and Indian migrants where confined between 2005 and 2011 in temporary holding centers for immigrants in Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish (European) border enclaves in North Africa. To prevent being deported, one day several men escaped from a holding center, known as a CETI (Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes) and their struggle created a number of support movements not only in Ceuta and Melilla but also across the Mediterranean. This paper focuses on the various acts of citizenship (demonstrations, occupation of immigration offices, and legal advocacy) that arose, particularly in cities such as Madrid and Barcelona, to fight for these men to be transferred to the mainland and to prevent their deportation. The day they escaped was also the day they stopped being double victims of neo-Orientalism– both of the smugglers who had extorted them for years through the deserts of North Africa, and of the European border regime that confined them at these border sites. This article is a case study of citizenship after Orientalism.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 343-360
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1530129
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Author-Name: Senayon Olaoluwa
Author-X-Name-First: Senayon
Author-X-Name-Last: Olaoluwa
Title: Beyond Backpacking: Solo “Guerrilla” Border Crossing and the Penetration of Geographies of Power in Olabisi Ajala's An African Abroad
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The travel legend of Olabisi Ajala in the national and transnational imagination has generated a lot of controversies that thrive on the capacity of rumors to create and sustain legends beyond the material times of their immediate reference. Central to the dispersal of Ajala's legend is the agency of Nigerian popular music that works in a rather antagonistic way to undermine Ajala's scripted perspectives on the travels in his memoir An African Abroad (1963). By paying more attention to the narrative of the memoir, this paper examines the peculiarities of Ajala's border crossing and how they account for the capacity of the narrative to generate a legend and make a compelling read. I identify two types of borders in the memoir: physical borders and borders of power, or what I prefer to call geographies of power. Ajala's success in engaging national presidents and other political leaders in conversation rests substantially on his refusal to cooperate with security and intelligence advice at both physical borders and geographies of power. His subversion of security protocols instantiates suicidal attempts that also constitute the reason the attention of presidents of many nations is drawn to him. This paper concludes that the memoir is important not only in terms of its pioneer documentation of individual postcolonial African backpacking and border crossing; it is significant also by the very sense in which it sets the tone for subsequent forms of African border crossing.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 487-501
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1571431
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Author-Name: Irena Grigoryan
Author-X-Name-First: Irena
Author-X-Name-Last: Grigoryan
Title: Kashmir as a borderland: the politics of space and belonging across the line of control
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 711-712
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1916983
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Author-Name: Sophia Hayat Taha
Author-X-Name-First: Sophia Hayat
Author-X-Name-Last: Taha
Title: (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 707-708
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1828143
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Author-Name: Jessica Nancy Bird
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Bird
Title: Bound within Borders or Free as a Bird? Karen Life in Refugee Camps on the Thai–Burma Borderlands
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Some residents of Thai–Burma border refugee camps regard themselves as caged birds—as prisoners of war—with little or no freedoms. External imaginations of camp residents as bound within borders are also common. This paper provides another perspective. It argues that residents subvert camp limitations; it describes how they stretch life beyond borders. Despite their armed monitoring, camp borders are contested by outwardly connecting, using tactics of transnationalism and translocalism; in essence, cross-border mobility. Such tactics provide freedom in an otherwise incarcerated camp-life and empower people in an otherwise powerless world. They enable individual actors to change their socio-political narrative. Naturally, severely isolated and restricted camps have low morale and residents have little hope. Given the relative permanence of Thai–Burma border camps (now in their fourth decade of existence), and an annual downward trend in their international aid, I recommend policy that ensures consistently clear channels of connection to life beyond camps’ borders. This paper contributes to the borderlands debate by adding camp borders as another framework for investigation; it reflects on geopolitical contexts and shifting political landscapes impacting on cross-border mobility; and underscores the agency and self-determination of the Karen people from Burma.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 675-693
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1700387
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Author-Name: Anna Casaglia
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Casaglia
Title: Borders and Mobility Injustice in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Abstract:
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an occasion to reflect on the uneven geographies of threats and disasters in relation to diverse population groups, rising fundamental concerns on issues of spatial and social injustice. In different areas of the world, the most affected by the virus are categories of people who already present some kind of vulnerability and experience inequalities. Borders and bordering processes have had a major role in the shaping of asymmetries, and this commentary intends to focus explicitly on them and on their renewed importance as technologies for the production and reproduction of inequalities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 695-703
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1918571
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Author-Name: Robayt Khondoker
Author-X-Name-First: Robayt
Author-X-Name-Last: Khondoker
Title: Regulation and Contraband Trade in the Bangladeshi Borderland: Whose Weapons?
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The article presents an ethnographic evidence on the informal economic activities of the cattle traders on the border area of Bangladesh surrounding Indian state of West-Bengal. On the basis of fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the article shows how the powerful traders manage to accrue wealth for themselves with the collusion of state officials from the trading activity while the small traders and carriers manage to earn their share of benefit. The study also indicates the paradox of state behavior while regulating the trading activity: on the one hand the state demonstrates its inability to facilitate the trade across the border on the other hand the state is collecting tax from the traders. By drawing on the theoretical debates on informal economy, the analysis demonstrates that the strong presence of the state in regulating the trading activity puts the limit on the maneuvering space of the influential traders while harassment of the small traders by border security forces and increasing death toll of the carriers compromises the position of the weak in this trading site. Therefore, the study argues that the trading activity neither constitutes as a “weapon of the weak” nor as a “weapon of the strong”-rather it reflects an ambiguous character. Second, despite hostile border security environment and absence of any formal regulatory arrangements, the cross-border cattle trade remains efficient, highly organized and deeply rooted business in the border area of Bangladesh.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 617-636
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1685400
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Author-Name: Olivier Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Author-Name: Martin Klatt
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Klatt
Author-Name: Freerk Boedeltje
Author-X-Name-First: Freerk
Author-X-Name-Last: Boedeltje
Title: Mapping International Co-authorship Networks in Border Studies (1986–2018)
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Border studies have become increasingly global over the past two decades. Yet, a network analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Borderlands Studies from 1986 to 2018 shows that less than half of them have one or more coauthors. Unlike in other scientific disciplines, where a growth of co-publications is observed, this proportion has not really changed over the last decade. Our paper also shows that major divisions can be found within border studies, which is no small paradox for a science supposedly cross-border by nature. Despite the overall global increase in scientific connectivity, internationally co-authored papers are still an exception in our field and scholars have a strong preference for publishing within their own country. Instead of a fully integrated community, they form a fragmented network whose main components are mainly located in the United States. Interviews with border experts reveal that various obstacles contribute to the current fragmentation of border studies. In addition to being separated by geographical distance and, sometimes, by actual walls, border scholars must also able to overcome the cognitive, social, organizational, and institutional distance that separate them.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 653-674
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1685402
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Author-Name: Matthew G. O’Neill
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew G.
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Neill
Title: The political materialities of borders: new theoretical directions (rethinking borders)
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 709-710
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1847169
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Author-Name: Michael P. A. Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael P. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Title: The Double Articulation of Sovereign Bordering: Spaces of Exception, Sovereign Vulnerability, and Agamben’s Schmitt/Foucault Synthesis
Abstract:
With the rise of authoritarian populism and critical border studies, as well as the continued presence of the Minutemen and borderlands studies, it is safe to say that sovereign borders are receiving increasing attention from a diverse set of actors within and beyond academia. One strain of research, building on the work of Giorgio Agamben, has examined the border as a space of exception. However, Agamben’s conceptual development of biopolitical sovereignty has come under fire, as critics assert his uneasy synthesis of Carl Schmitt and Michel Foucault is disproven by the agency of migrants proving themselves capable of resisting sovereign control at the border. This article responds to Agamben’s critics by rebalancing the Schmittian and Foucauldian sources of Agamben’s work. While much of the conceptual development of the border-as-exception has focused on the experience of the border-crosser as a capillary manifestation of control, I argue that the exception is as important for the sovereign as for the object of sovereign power. Every decision on the exception is also a process of defining who the sovereign is, and if we understand the border is a space of exception, then we also must recognize the vulnerability that this produces for the sovereign.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 599-615
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1683053
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Author-Name: Covadonga Bachiller López
Author-X-Name-First: Covadonga Bachiller
Author-X-Name-Last: López
Title: Border policing and security technologies. Mobility and proliferation of borders in the Western Balkans
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 705-706
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1816204
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Author-Name: Su-Ann Oh
Author-X-Name-First: Su-Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Oh
Author-Name: Melanie Walker
Author-X-Name-First: Melanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Walker
Author-Name: Hayso Thako
Author-X-Name-First: Hayso
Author-X-Name-Last: Thako
Title: Karen Education and Boundary-Making at the Thai-Burmese Borderland
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This article argues that schooling and education are boundary-making devices in the volatile borderland straddling Burma and Thailand. We show that the development of Karen education was one of the ways in which the Karen National Union (KNU) erected ideological, symbolic and cultural boundaries to keep this borderland separate from the Burmese and Thai states. We draw attention to the conflict in what is considered valued knowledge, the recognition of learning, and who is considered the legitimate authority to manage education at the local and school levels. In fact, examining Karen education at the Thai-Burmese borderland is more than just a description of schooling: it is an examination of the struggle over governance and identity, and ultimately of understandings of sovereignty and nationhood. Moreover, the changing political landscapes in Thailand and Burma have now drawn this borderland and its education into the orbit of the national sphere, provoking a redefinition of notions of governance and nationhood.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 637-652
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1685401
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Author-Name: Lisa Marie Borrelli
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Borrelli
Title: The Border Inside – Organizational Socialization of Street-level Bureaucrats in the European Migration Regime
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Borderlands are spaces of uncertainty and constant change, where decisions on the welcoming or refusal of migrants are taken. Today those spaces are far less defined by geographical borders, and thus allow for forms of exclusion to emerge in various moments and places. Often it is street-level bureaucrats who encounter migrant individuals and who base their decisions on their experiences, training and personal values in the context of restrictive policies and laws. This contribution argues that studying the training of migration agents facilitates an understanding of how a professional habitus is shaped, and of how othering comes into being. Organizational socialization reproduces and sustains institutionalized social interactions between the bureaucrat and their clients. The ethnographic data, collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with Swiss and Swedish migration authorities, will critically discuss learning processes in government agencies dealing with the detection, detention and deportation of migrants with precarious legal status.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 579-598
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1676815
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Author-Name: Henrik Dorf Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Dorf
Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen
Title: Encountering (Un)familiar Russia: Thresholds and Perceptions When Crossing the Border
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We all have perceptions of other people and places, especially when that other place is as mysterious, diverse, and at the same time exposed as Russia. These perceptions are often made before we meet or interact with “the other” and while most people will probably never go to Russia, they will have formed a perception based on e.g. news coverage, movies and narratives told and re-told between people. This makes perceptions less than perfect and prone to stereotypes, which is ironic considering the importance perceptions have.This paper explores perceptions of Russia held by students from all corners of the world before and after visiting Russia. Besides from exploring the general perception of Russia and whether it changes when interacting with the other, the aim is to determine how (un)familiarity in the form of prior knowledge, experience, and proximity influences perception and whether negative perception can function as a catalyst for cross-border practices.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 529-546
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1621765
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Author-Name: Glynis Clacherty
Author-X-Name-First: Glynis
Author-X-Name-Last: Clacherty
Title: Art-based, narrative research with unaccompanied migrant children living in Johannesburg, South Africa
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Migrant children are often represented through stereotypical narratives by media, governments and even researchers. These representations range from institutional narratives that reduce their experience to “pre-flight, flight, post flight” to psychological narratives that can represent them as traumatized victims of war. Using narratives collected over five years with unaccompanied migrant children, this paper shows that their past and present realities are perceived by the children to be much more complex and fragmented than the meta-narrative suggests. Additionally, their identities are so much more than “victim.” The narratives were collected through an art-making process with 27 children who had fled political conflicts in central and southern Africa and were now living in Johannesburg. Through a literal and internal “open space” created by the art-making, the children made some measure of meaning from the extreme events they had experienced. Often this meaning-making was done through the art alone, sometimes through stories told in metaphor and sometimes in small fragments that were pieced together over time. The narratives that emerged allow the children to be seen in their own terms and present us with what Chinua Achebe would call a “balance of stories” that move beyond the stereotypes that dominate our view.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 547-563
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1621766
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Author-Name: Ankur Sharma
Author-X-Name-First: Ankur
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma
Title: Analysis of a Parallel Informal Exchange Rate System in Indo-Bhutanese Border Towns
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The Bhutanese Ngultrum and the Indian Rupee follow a fixed exchange rate system but within the border towns between India and Bhutan, an informal exchange rate system exists, which in contrast, is primarily based on market value system. The researcher aimed to study the underlying dynamics associated with an informal exchange rate system co-existing with the official market rate within the borderland regions of India and Bhutan. This research was focussed primarily upon intensive research methodology through interactive interviews, qualitative analysis and, primarily, in-site participant observation research techniques.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 565-577
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1635515
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Author-Name: Laurie Trautman
Author-X-Name-First: Laurie
Author-X-Name-Last: Trautman
Title: Connecting Border Studies and Border Policy: Exploring the Canada–U.S. Context
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The COVID-19 pandemic raises a variety of questions regarding how border studies can contribute much needed perspectives to inform timely, relevant, and often under-analyzed public policy issues. Whether concerned with immigration, trade, or culture and identity, questions about borders have taken on a new meaning in a relatively short period of time and are now unequivocally policy-relevant on a global scale. Addressing these issues demands closer engagement between border scholars and border policy and should mark a defining feature underlying a new direction for border studies. This paper explores the integration between border studies and border policy in the Canada – U.S. context, and suggests that a mix of public policy theories can provide a useful theoretical lens moving forward. Although focused on the Canada – U.S. relationship, this analysis has global relevancy for the future of border studies and for new directions for strengthening the impact of border studies on society, which will require pursing new ways of communicating and forging stronger, more dynamic relationships across industries and at different scales.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 833-852
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968925
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Author-Name: Victor Konrad
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Konrad
Title: New Directions at the Post-Globalization Border
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A framework for thinking about borders in post-globalization scaffolds insights of emerging theory exemplary of prevailing in-betweenness of the border world. Epistemological advances frame dissensus, power, belongingness, borderscapes and a-territoriality as ridges of knowledge above the collected and connected lore of border experience, yet this knowledge remains topographic and incomplete for understanding interstitial components of borders and bordering. At best, linked approaches employing multiple perspectives, engaging with borderlands, portraying borderscapes, and articulating agency and mobility have set the stage for recalibration of borders in globalization, and approximation of post-globalization borders. In a post-humanistic era, in which humans encountered limitations of nature and sparred with natural laws, states propped up borders and emphasized boundaries. The “border turn” is reactionary, and antithetical, a time when we need to be mindful of the branded border and anxious of our belongingness both within and beyond borders. New directions at the border are epitomized by the articles in this special issue: controlling “blue” (maritime) versus “green” (land) borders, border ethics, China’s energized borders, borders as magnets of activism and spectacle, seemingly distinct borders in dialogue, border approaches of effective temporality, and the re-engagement of borders and policy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 713-726
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1980733
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Author-Name: William Yaworsky
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Yaworsky
Author-Name: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Author-X-Name-First: Guadalupe
Author-X-Name-Last: Correa-Cabrera
Author-Name: Cindy Azucena Gómez-Schempp
Author-X-Name-First: Cindy Azucena
Author-X-Name-Last: Gómez-Schempp
Title: The Eagle, the Condor, and Exodus: New Directions in Political Theater and Border Spectacle
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This article identifies key actors and explains the strategies they utilized in two recent border events: (1) the protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, and (2) the migrant caravans originating in Central America. The study identifies the systematic use of two legitimizing narratives: (1) the prophecy of the eagle and the condor, and (2) the biblical story of Exodus. The present work advances new directions in border studies by analyzing borders as magnets for activism. We also demonstrate the malleability of messaging when shifting operations from one border to another and illuminate the effects of standard propaganda techniques combined with new technologies and media platforms in an era of hyper-partisanship.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 791-811
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1918570
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Author-Name: Khaled Imran
Author-X-Name-First: Khaled
Author-X-Name-Last: Imran
Title: Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 875-876
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1957980
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Author-Name: Jussi P. Laine
Author-X-Name-First: Jussi P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Laine
Title: Beyond Borders: Towards the Ethics of Unbounded Inclusiveness
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Borders remain vitally important features of our political world. Throughout the Global North, the common response to the broad challenges and the multiple overlapping crises has been to regress to state-centric thinking and nationalist agendas and revert to ad-hoc border closures. We have witnessed a consistent drive for ever stricter border and migration policies, which are not limited to the mere border management, but become an inherent part of a wide range of polices and societal practices. The premise assumed herein is that borders do not only divide physical space, but are also used increasingly to sort people according to the degree of their belonging. The question under scrutiny here is that how to balance the calls for the freedom of movement against the right to freedom of association? I seek to unravel this conundrum by addressing the arguments used to support these, which might appear as inherently, opposite stands. In advocating for unbounded inclusiveness, I seek to challenge the widely accepted notion that people are from a certain territorially demarcated place, and their rights, duties – and opportunities in life, ought to remain based on their arbitrary fact.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 745-763
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1924073
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Author-Name: Randy W. Widdis
Author-X-Name-First: Randy W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Widdis
Title: New Directions at the Border: A Historical Geographical Perspective
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This essay has two goals: the first is to illustrate what borders have been, how they have been viewed, and where they are headed; and the second is to argue that a historical perspective is necessary to the understanding of borders in a post-global world. Underlying this discussion is the contention that any consideration of new directions in border studies must attempt to unravel the entanglements that connect globalization and borders. This argument rests on the belief that borders must be viewed in relation to the borderlands in which they are situated. Such an effort requires a historical geographical perspective which reflects on the strings that connect the past and present and identifies and analyses the roles that such connections play in the ever-changing world of borders, borderlands, and bordering.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 853-871
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948899
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Author-Name: Thomas Ptak
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Ptak
Author-Name: Victor Konrad
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Konrad
Title: “Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones”: How Borders, Energy Development and Ongoing Experimentation Shape the Dynamic Transformation of Yunnan Province
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This article details the dynamic transformation of Yunnan’s border regime during the early twenty-first century through the Great Western Development Strategy, Bridgehead and Belt and Road Initiative. Although China’s macro-scale national strategies frame border change, experimental ideology and local-scale mechanisms drive border change and refine through constant adjustment. As illustrated in this article, border positioning and repositioning is incremental, constituted of many small and different components, dependent on locals and localities, and employing an array of border mediation strategies. Seemingly large scale border alteration is actually accrued through micro-changes, small scale experiments in specific places, trial and error adjustments and, essentially “crossing the river by feeling the stones.” Whereas Yunnan’s geostrategic location and vast energy resources have catapulted the province through rapid growth and into a globalized international context, ongoing transformation has also bolstered boundaries and bordering processes in Yunnan’s mobile border regime and generated antithetical and reactionary bordering responses that need to be viewed within a post-globalization border framework.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 765-789
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1924074
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Author-Name: Derek Lutterbeck
Author-X-Name-First: Derek
Author-X-Name-Last: Lutterbeck
Title: Blue vs Green: The Challenges of Maritime Migration Controls
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This article explores the particular features of maritime border and migration controls and their differences to border enforcement on land. Drawing on how “classical” approaches to political geography, such as Friedrich Ratzel, viewed the differences between land and sea, and their impact on human activity, and using (mainly) examples of border control efforts in the Mediterranean, the following differences between controlling blue and green borders are highlighted: the heavier militarization of sea borders; the (inherent) nexus between border enforcement and migrant safety in the maritime domain; the more important role played by private commercial actors at sea; the “interstitial” nature of the maritime space, which brings with it more contention and uncertainty regarding states’ respective rights and duties in dealing with seaborne migration, and finally the generally “secondary” (or less essential) nature of maritime border controls compared to enforcing borders on land.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 727-743
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1652672
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Author-Name: Olivier Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: Boundaries, Communities and State-making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins (Vol. 144)
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 873-874
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948902
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Author-Name: Dina Krichker
Author-X-Name-First: Dina
Author-X-Name-Last: Krichker
Author-Name: Jasnea Sarma
Author-X-Name-First: Jasnea
Author-X-Name-Last: Sarma
Title: Can Borders Speak to Each Other? The India–Bangladesh and Spain–Morocco Borders in Dialogue
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By juxtaposing local narratives of border experiences in two volatile regions, the Spain–Morocco border in Melilla and the India–Bangladesh border in Assam, this paper argues for the value of understanding borders as infrastructures. The paper conceptualizes border infrastructures in their broad material and discursive forms by foregrounding local narratives garnered out of a dialogue between the two sites. Through this conversation, the paper explores how state designed infrastructures are lived, experienced, patrolled, naturalized and subverted across scales and locations, becoming part of a global story of violence. The paper argues that, by letting borders ‘speak to each other’ as an analytical and methodological intervention, scholars can potentially bridge gaps between bordering practices worldwide and people’s everyday strategies locally. Such dialogues can also enhance our understanding of the convergent histories of proliferating border infrastructures and movements around and across them.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 813-831
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1676813
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Author-Name: Andréanne Bissonnette
Author-X-Name-First: Andréanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Bissonnette
Title: “Caged Women”: Migration, Mobility and Access to Health Services in Texas and Arizona
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Borderlands are redefined by the hardening of borders, through border walls, increased internal controls, toughened immigration laws, which creates a climate of fear for undocumented migrants. Over the past years, some states and cities in the United States have enacted restrictive policies regarding access to State-provided services, such as healthcare. The impact of these laws needs to be assessed through the gender lens. This paper uses the metaphor of cages to delve on the study of undocumented migrant women’s access to healthcare services when the intersection of immigration and healthcare laws creates a restrictive environment, through the case study of Arizona and Texas. It first analyzes the impact on undocumented migrant women’s physical health, addressing preventive and emergency care and reproductive and sexual healthcare. Secondly, it addresses the impact of that intersection on women’s psychological health, assessing how these policies, when combined, worsen the impacts of past traumas and create new ones while restricting access to psychological services. It demonstrates that undocumented migrant women are affected in specific ways by the intersection of immigration and healthcare laws as it exacerbates the multiple oppressions they experience as low-income women of color without legal status.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 133-154
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1748515
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Author-Name: Edgar Garcia Velozo
Author-X-Name-First: Edgar Garcia
Author-X-Name-Last: Velozo
Author-Name: Luísa Caye
Author-X-Name-First: Luísa
Author-X-Name-Last: Caye
Title: Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist: From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 219-220
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1984975
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Author-Name: Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
Author-X-Name-First: Pierre-Alexandre
Author-X-Name-Last: Beylier
Author-Name: Cléa Fortuné
Author-X-Name-First: Cléa
Author-X-Name-Last: Fortuné
Title: Cross-Border Mobility in Nogales Since Trump’s Election
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Building upon previous research on mobility, our study applies the concept of motility as developed by Kaufmann to border towns. This paper seeks to extend our knowledge on cross-border mobility under the Trump presidency by analyzing cross-border practices at the Mexico/US border, in the border towns of Nogales, Arizona and Sonora. The results of the survey lead us to conclude that though the border is present in the residents’ daily lives, the dynamics that shape the border are changing. Cross-border mobility is reorganized locally in a context of rebordering and increased border surveillance.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 187-208
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1768884
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Author-Name: Lorenzo Rinelli
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo
Author-X-Name-Last: Rinelli
Title: Expanding Boundaries. Borders, Mobilities and the Future of Europe-Africa Relations
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 225-227
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1996262
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Author-Name: Sirous Ghanbari
Author-X-Name-First: Sirous
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghanbari
Author-Name: Omid Jamshid Zehi Shahbakhsh
Author-X-Name-First: Omid Jamshid Zehi
Author-X-Name-Last: Shahbakhsh
Author-Name: Mahdi Naderianfar
Author-X-Name-First: Mahdi
Author-X-Name-Last: Naderianfar
Title: The Impact of Concrete Wall Construction Between Iran and Afghanistan Border on Safety of Iran South-Eastern Marginal Regions
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Being located in the Middle East region, Iran is encountering fundamental challenges with regard to its safety. Loss of peace and safety in Afghanistan, existence of drug smuggling bands, weapons and entrance of terrorist troops from Afghanistan to Iran are the factors that continuously have endangered the security stability of Iran south-eastern marginal regions. In April 2009, the security wall construction plan between Sistan and Afghanistan common border was confirmed, and it was being fenced by military forces. Basically, the present research was intended to analyze marginal wall construction effects on safety of Sistan rural regions. To this end, a descriptive-analytical method was used based on secondary data, field studies and surveys. Size of the statistical society was determined as 375 households in 30 sample villages by considering the number of households in the villages using the Cochran formula. To analyze data ArcGIS software for spatial analysis, statistical methods of Wilcoxon in SPSS software were used in order to analyze changes in the security of the villages before and after wall construction. The research results indicated that concrete wall construction in Iran and Afghanistan border could lead to sustainable safety increment in villages of the Sistan region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-15
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1700388
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Author-Name: Jordi Tejel
Author-X-Name-First: Jordi
Author-X-Name-Last: Tejel
Title: States of Rumors: Politics of Information Along the Turkish-Syrian Border, 1925–1945
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In this article, I focus on the production and circulation along the Turkish-Syrian border of rumors about the imminent annexation of Northern Syria by Turkey in the interwar years. Drawing on Joel S. Migdal and Sabine Dullin’s works on the shared production of states and borders between the “center” and the “periphery”, this article suggests that the study of the webs of rumors and information originating from the Turkish-Syrian border helps provide an alternative narrative about the bordering processes in the Middle East and beyond. To achieve this, I analyze dozens of reports produced by the border authorities and consulates as well as press articles in which such rumors were recorded and conveyed for more than two decades. I argue that rumors played a role not only in determining the way Turkish and French mandatory authorities intervened in borderlands’ everyday life, but also in how the two governments interacted to each other.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 95-113
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1719866
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Author-Name: Eduardo Medeiros
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Medeiros
Title: Participatory governance in the Europe of cross-border regions. Cooperation–boundaries–civil society
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 221-222
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1996261
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Author-Name: Claudia Donoso
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Donoso
Title: The Biopolitics of Migration: Ecuadorian Foreign Policy and Venezuelan Migratory Crisis
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Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics serves to analyze Ecuador's foreign policy towards the Venezuelan migration crisis. First, I discuss the interrelations between the fields of border and mobility studies to understand the regulation of mobilities by practices such as border management. Second, I explore the contributions of post-structuralism to foreign policy analysis. Third, I study the concepts of biopower and biopolitics in central works written by Foucault such as The History of Sexuality (1990), Society Must Be Defended (2003) and Security, Territory and Population (2007). Fourth, I examine the causes of the migration crisis of Venezuelans in the region. Fifth, I analyze the securitization of Venezuelan migratory flows in Ecuador. Based on the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics, I argue that what contributes to the extreme securitization of the massive migration of Venezuelans, and therefore the Ecuadorian foreign policy’s response to this phenomenon, is the result of biopower. This form of power emphasizes on the control of populations in a given territory. This article analyzes the content of the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility and several press articles to discuss the biopolitical measures taken by the Ecuadorian foreign policy to control the migration of Venezuelans.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 57-75
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1713854
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Author-Name: Maria de Lourdes Viloria
Author-X-Name-First: Maria de Lourdes
Author-X-Name-Last: Viloria
Author-Name: Joe Byrd
Author-X-Name-First: Joe
Author-X-Name-Last: Byrd
Author-Name: Priscilla Ferreyro
Author-X-Name-First: Priscilla
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreyro
Author-Name: Tracie Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Tracie
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Instructional Leadership Reflections
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This research contributes to the field of Educational Administration by presenting the instructional leadership practices used by three borderlands school principals to develop Hispanic students' postsecondary navigational capital using community cultural wealth (Yosso, Tara J. 2005. Whose Culture has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education 8, no. 1: 69–91). Whereas, the Hispanic student population in Texas continues to increase, the number of Hispanic school principals has not. According to the Texas Education Agency (TEA 2016–2017), Hispanic students represent 52% of the Texas public schools while Hispanic school principals account for 23% of principals in Texas (TEA 2011–2015). In addition, as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) legislation signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015 takes root in public schools all states are required to conduct educational equity audits. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Education requires that each state provide a state plan to ensure equitable access to excellent educators for all students (DOE 2015). In that case, this study presents culturally relevant leadership recommendations for school principals working on addressing Texas Hispanic students' educational gap by unpacking the instructional leadership strategies used by three borderlands school principals.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 155-171
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1748516
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Author-Name: Tobias Chilla
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias
Author-X-Name-Last: Chilla
Author-Name: Anna Heugel
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Heugel
Title: Cross-border Commuting Dynamics: Patterns and Driving Forces in the Alpine Macro-region
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Cross-border commuting is a spatial phenomenon of rising importance throughout Europe. As one of the most concrete aspects of European integration, it facilitates the use of comparative advantages to live and work on different sides of national borders. But despite a general political appreciation of cross-border integration, neither the statistical knowledge base nor its political implications are very high on the agenda. We explore the cross-border commuting dynamics of the Alpine region on a transnational scale, where seven countries meet and cross-border commuting is a relevant pattern posing daily challenges. Against this background, the paper aims to identify the key drivers and explanatory factors of cross-border commuting. In particular, we explore the role of labor market differences, urbanization, and metropolitan quality as well as the distance to the border. Our investigation is based on regional statistical data mobilized in the context of the Alpine Region Preparatory Action Fund (ARPAF) project on cross-border mobility.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 17-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1700822
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Author-Name: David Salgado
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Salgado
Author-Name: Peter T. Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Peter T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Author-Name: Abhisek Mudgal
Author-X-Name-First: Abhisek
Author-X-Name-Last: Mudgal
Author-Name: Rafael M. Aldrete
Author-X-Name-First: Rafael M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aldrete
Author-Name: Swapnil S. Samant
Author-X-Name-First: Swapnil S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Samant
Author-Name: Gustavo J. Rodriguez
Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodriguez
Title: Transportation of Patients in Critical Condition Across an International Border, What is the Impact on Their Odds of Full Recovery and Survival? - Case Study at the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
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This paper examines the impact of Patient Transport Time (PTT) on the transportation of critical patients in border regions when emergency medical care across an international border is required. Ambulances transport patients across the Mexico-U.S. border through Land Ports of Entry (LPOEs). The goal of this paper is to determine if PTT required to transport patients in critical condition from Mexico to the U.S. across the international border impacts their odds of full recovery and survival. The paper uses El Paso, U.S.-Ciudad Juarez, Mexico binational region as a case study. In this region, patients are transported across the border via Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) Non-commercial LPOE. Currently, there are no formal procedures to expedite ambulance cross-border operations at this LPOE. This paper concludes that PTT significantly impacts odds of full recovery and survival of patients in critical condition transported across the border. Results show that these patients will face high-risk situations, this is a significant reduction of their odds of survival, when departure time is located from 7 am to 9 am, and from noon to 8 pm. Under these circumstances, the transportation of the patient to the closest hospital in Ciudad Juarez would be safest option.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 77-94
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1713855
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Author-Name: Henrik Dorf Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Dorf
Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen
Title: Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism, and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 223-224
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968929
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Author-Name: Melissa Floca
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Floca
Author-Name: Ana Barbara Mungaray
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Mungaray
Author-Name: Maximino Matus
Author-X-Name-First: Maximino
Author-X-Name-Last: Matus
Title: Educational Challenges and Opportunities Facing Binational Youth in San Diego and Tijuana
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Migration between Mexico and the U.S. has created a sizeable cohort of students whose education takes place on both sides of the border. These students are especially well suited to participate in the binational economy because of their cross-border cultural fluency. However, a host of pressures creates barriers to completing high school and college and uncertain pathways to job opportunities for these youth. As such, supporting their educational success should be a major regional workforce development priority. Based on a representative survey of 9th and 10th graders in San Diego and Tijuana, this paper examines how the migration of young people back and forth across the border can derail the educational trajectories of individual students. Data on cross-border ties of students in the region, the socioeconomic status of their families, and their educational aspirations, provides a basis for understanding the policies and programs needed to increase educational attainment and pathways to high-skilled job opportunities for binational youth.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 173-185
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1768883
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Author-Name: Alex Etl
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Etl
Title: Liminal Populism—The Transformation of the Hungarian Migration Discourse
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The Hungarian migration discourse has become important not only on a domestic level, but it was also able to thematize Europe-wide debates. Despite its influence, there is still a lack of understanding about how the Hungarian government has maintained its migration discourse during the past few years. Using discourse analysis, the present study fills this gap by focusing on the transformation of the governmental discourse. Whereas the governmental discourse could initially establish antagonism towards migrants and refugees, its turn towards internal actors disrupted this dichotomous structure. Ever since, the discourse has operated through an offensive and alienating frame as well as through a mitigation frame at the same time. The mixture of these two patterns as seemingly ambivalent yet interlocking tendencies characterizes the Hungarian governmental discourse that can be qualified as a liminal populist discourse. Liminal populism has the ability to maintain alienation and to blur social relations at the same time. Liminal populism is a flexible discursive strategy to decrease social pressure, while it is also a discursive necessity, an unsuccessful attempt to establish antagonism.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 115-132
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1735479
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Author-Name: Carina Heckert
Author-X-Name-First: Carina
Author-X-Name-Last: Heckert
Title: Syndemics in Symbiotic Cities: Pathogenic Policy and the Production of Health Inequity Across Borders
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Public health in border regions is a central concern to researchers and policymakers. This article demonstrates how and why syndemics theory should be central to border health research agendas and the development of health policy. A syndemic describes the concentration and deleterious interaction of two or more health conditions in a population. However, syndemic theory is not only about disease pathology. Another central tenant of syndemic theory is that the sociopolitical and environmental context facilitates the interaction of multiple health conditions. Within the social sciences and public health, a syndemics approach has become an increasingly utilized framework for understanding health disparities. However, how this framework can be adapted to understand the particularities of border regions remains underdeveloped. In applying syndemics to border regions, this paper explores how border-related policies produce conditions that facilitate syndemic vulnerability. In doing so, this article focuses on four policy realms as they unfold on the US-Mexico border: immigration policy, the War on Drugs, environmental policy, and health policy. The construction of policies within these realms often ignores the ways policies produced in one nation generate health consequences beyond national boundaries.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 37-55
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1700823
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Author-Name: Ahmed Shams
Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed
Author-X-Name-Last: Shams
Title: Sinai’s Imaginary Boundary Line in Twenty-first Century
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An imaginary line had been assigned on small-scale non-survey or non-treaty compiled maps to mark the Egyptian-Levantine boundary, a repetitive pattern since – at least – the sixteenth century CE. It ran through Sinai Peninsula between Suez and Rafah. Little is discussed about the origins of the line which dates back to the emergence of the cartographic states. The Ottomans first attempted to formalize this line in the Firman of 1841 CE. The latter became a favorable start point during the negotiations of the Turco-Egyptian boundary line between Egypt/British and Palestine/Ottoman in 1906 CE, and a point of historic review throughout the twentieth century CE. This commentary explores the origins of the line, whether it is a line “through the sand” or represents the notion of a “natural boundary,” or a cartographic thought driven from “tribal territories” or an “administrative boundary.” Paradoxically, the line was utilized to support the political position of the Egyptian government in twenty-first century CE.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 209-218
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968930
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Author-Name: Lorenzo Rinelli
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo
Author-X-Name-Last: Rinelli
Title: Reaching Out, Reaching In: A Journey Across Multiple Borders and Limits
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 427-429
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2039268
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Author-Name: Daniel K. Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: Respatializing Federalism in the Horn’s Borderlands: From Contraband Control to Transnational Governmentality
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Analysts documenting the proliferation of border controls amidst the global War on Terror have highlighted recent extensions of state sovereignty into new geographies. Such shifts are largely driven by Western states’ security concerns as they partner with governments in Africa and other migrant-sending spaces to stem migration. In eastern Ethiopia, however, new dynamics of border securitization have facilitated African politicians’ efforts to extend governance in the opposite direction. This article traces how authorities in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State (SRS) between 2010 and 2018 instrumentalized the decentralization of border control in attempts to both address the persistence of “contraband” border trade and tax evasion, and solve a longstanding security problem: opposition activities among diaspora Somalis. Theoretically connecting a “borderlands as resources” framework to conceptions of transnational governmentality, this study analyzes how the governance of trade at national and subnational borders may enable efforts to regulate diaspora groups.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 295-316
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1943494
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Author-Name: Daniel Rauhut
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Rauhut
Author-Name: Jussi P. Laine
Author-X-Name-First: Jussi P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Laine
Title: Swedish Immigrants to Portugal: A Bordering Perspective
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Although direct migration flows from Sweden to Portugal have been marginal, the actual number of citizens from Sweden living in Portugal continues to increase every year. Many Swedes appear to move to Portugal via a third country. By far the largest number of Swedish citizens permanently residing in Portugal settles on the Algarve or in the Lisbon area, generally close to their compatriots. Those settling in other parts of Portugal do so among the Portuguese and at a distance from their compatriots. This paper discusses Swedes’ migration behavior in Portugal. We seek to use bordering theories to explain the migration behavior of Swedes in moving to Portugal. Overcoming borders mainly concerns the overcoming of socially constructed imaginaries of belonging to a certain place. The mental influence of the state border cannot be understated in theories of cross-border economic interaction such as migration.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 399-414
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1777888
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Author-Name: Samuel Bewiadzi Akakpo
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Bewiadzi Akakpo
Title: Informal Trade Routes and Security along the Aflao-Lomé Border Region (Ghana-Togo)
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The Aflao-Lomé border is one of the busiest borders in West Africa. This border serves as a passage for both human and goods traffic. More important is the role of the border in facilitating trade between Ghana and Togo. However, due to high cost of customs duties, immigration policies, and other bureaucratic bottlenecks, traders explore marginal and peripheral routes to transact business and other activities. These routes, referred to as ‘beats’ are footpaths that link Ghana and Togo within the Aflao-Lomé border region. On daily basis, they experience high traffic from traders and immigrants. Using the qualitative approach, this paper investigates these trade routes and their security implications on the border region. First, the paper looks at the ethnography of the Aflao-Lomé border region and the history of the beats. The paper also explores the factors that underpin the use of these trade routes in the region. At the heart of the paper lies how the beats facilitate trading activities between Ghana and Togo and the security implications of the use of these routes. The paper argues that the beats play crucial roles in promoting trade in the border region but pose great security challenges to residents of the region.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 317-337
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2013294
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Author-Name: Abu Sufian
Author-X-Name-First: Abu
Author-X-Name-Last: Sufian
Title: India–Bangladesh Border Disputes: History and Post-LBA Dynamics
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 431-433
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2046483
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Author-Name: Samuel Kehinde Okunade
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Kehinde
Author-X-Name-Last: Okunade
Title: Border jumping and migration control in Southern Africa
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 425-426
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2038231
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Author-Name: Steven M. Radil
Author-X-Name-First: Steven M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Radil
Author-Name: Ian Irmischer
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Irmischer
Author-Name: Olivier J. Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: Contextualizing the Relationship Between Borderlands and Political Violence: A Dynamic Space-Time Analysis in North and West Africa
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This paper examines the role of borderlands in contemporary armed conflicts in North and West Africa. Borderlands are important to the legitimacy and security of states because of their association with sovereignty and the provision of order. They are also essential to efforts by non-state groups to bypass or challenge the same. However, not all borderlands are the same and the evolution of conflict is a complex and dynamic process. Building on previous work on African borderlands, this paper considers how the permeability of borderlands impacts the propensity for nearby violence and how this relationship varies over both space and time. While there is an association between violence and borderlands in aggregate, this is highly contextualized by both the characteristics of the borderland in question and the larger geopolitical context underpinning the violence.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 253-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968926
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Author-Name: Carolina Prado
Author-X-Name-First: Carolina
Author-X-Name-Last: Prado
Title: Community Participation and Recognition Justice in Border Environmental Governance
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In the U.S.-México border region, environmental governance is fractured by the multiplicity of jurisdictions that overlap and create accountability gaps for local communities. In order to understand the role that community members play in influencing this governance process, this research is focused on the types of participants in, and barriers to community participation in the Border 2020 program, an institution of environmental governance in the border region. My findings show that while the program has succeeded in being a resource for border non-governmental organizations, their reach does not include border residents who may already have less access to their governance processes. Moreover, the key barriers to participation include structural barriers for community members like lack of funds for transportation to events, and childcare/work responsibilities. Program barriers to participation include: (1) lack of services/funding to address structural barriers, (2) minimal outreach to disadvantaged communities, (3) minimal capacity building opportunities, (4) infrequent meetings, and (5) changes in task force leadership. I argue there is a recognition injustice at play in this case study of the Border 2020 program as there are key missing community members that are not being recognized as needed stakeholders in the governance process.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 359-377
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1774407
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Author-Name: Gonzalo Álvarez
Author-X-Name-First: Gonzalo
Author-X-Name-Last: Álvarez
Author-Name: Cristian Ovando
Author-X-Name-First: Cristian
Author-X-Name-Last: Ovando
Author-Name: Carlos Piñones
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos
Author-X-Name-Last: Piñones
Title: Questioned Sovereignty and Challenged Diplomacies: The Case of the Aymara People and the State of Chile
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Based on the relations between the Aymara people and the State of Chile, this article analyzes two crucial dimensions for international studies. On the one hand, it studies the ideas, debates and practices of State sovereignty in borderland areas and contrasts them with the narrative of the Aymara people that inhabit these cross-border spaces; on the other, it examines Indigenous Consultation processes involving the government of Chile and Aymara communities, which provide evidence of mismatched diplomatic relationships. Both dimensions address the diverging conceptions of “international order” present in the borderland strip, which are marked by hegemonic practices on the part of the national State and increasingly questioned by the narratives and practices of the indigenous peoples.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 339-358
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1768885
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Author-Name: Kamal Donko
Author-X-Name-First: Kamal
Author-X-Name-Last: Donko
Author-Name: Martin Doevenspeck
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Doevenspeck
Author-Name: Uli Beisel
Author-X-Name-First: Uli
Author-X-Name-Last: Beisel
Title: Migration Control, the Local Economy and Violence in the Burkina Faso and Niger Borderland
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The externalized European “migration management” in West Africa has technologically modernized and militarized border posts. This threatens visa-free travel, freedom of settlement and borderland economies in parts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It has interrupted historical mobility patterns, depleted the diversity of mobility practices and criminalized regional economies. At the same time, one can observe intensified and asymmetrical violent conflict in some of these borderlands. By taking the Kantchari-Makalondi borderland as a case study we analysed the relations between migration policies, insecurity, forced immobility and economic decline. Our observations and interviews with migrants, traders, security forces and borderlanders lead us to question conventional narratives on border control and African mobilities as a binary relation between Africa and Europe. Instead, they foreground the multiple practices of (im)mobility in these spaces: the circulation and blockage of travelers, merchandise, surveillance technologies, and military interventions and their impact on security and livelihoods.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 235-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1997629
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Author-Name: Dorte J. Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Dorte J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Marie Sandberg
Author-X-Name-First: Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Sandberg
Title: How to Hatch the Wings of a Mockingbird: A Comment on the EU’s New Migration and Asylum Pact and the Risk of Destroying Civil Society Engagement in Refugee Relief Work Internally to the EU Memberstates
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It is now more than 5 years since Europe experienced a so-called “refugee crisis” challenging the European Union's asylum system to such an extent that the system is still transforming. This commentary identifies a dangerous trend in these transformations. It does so with reference to the manifestation in Europe in 2015 of grassroot engagement and cross-border initiatives to welcome and support refugee arrivals, known as “welcome cultures”. Bearing this willingness to support refugees in mind, the EU Migration and Asylum Pact appear to communicate an even more exclusive notion of Europe than hitherto seen. Even though “solidarity” is a core notion in The Pact, it is a very different understanding of solidarity than the ones expressed in the welcome cultures: In The Pact “solidarity” refers to the collective responsibility of EU member states to follow refugees back to where they came from. This consensus, neglecting how civil society was an invaluable resource during the summer and autumn of 2015, endanger the activities and maybe even the very existence in Europe of civil society engagement in refugee relief work. We write this commentary because we think these developments should be recognized as a dilemma located at the heart of European democracy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 415-423
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1985587
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Author-Name: Martin Evans
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Evans
Title: Insecurity, Informal Trade and Timber Trafficking in the Gambia/Casamance Borderlands
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The Gambia’s long frontier with Casamance, southern Senegal, has historically been porous allowing informal cross-border trade to flourish. With context from colonial times, the paper examines the post-independence period, during which flows of agricultural and forest products mainly from Casamance into The Gambia have continued, while processed foods and manufactured goods have been traded in the other direction. Certain flows have become pathological since the Casamance rebellion began in 1982, with natural resources being traded by both Senegalese government and separatist forces, and arms trafficked to the latter partly through Gambian channels. With the conflict now of low intensity though not resolved, continued illegal timber exploitation in Casamance driven mainly by international actors is becoming more environmentally destructive and locally divisive. The paper argues that informal cross-border trade has long been bound up with insecurity at local, national, transnational and international levels, and that contemporary dynamics show some historical continuities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 273-294
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2031253
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Author-Name: Olivier Walther
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
Author-X-Name-Last: Walther
Title: Security and Trade in African Borderlands – An Introduction
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The goal of this special issue is to explore the relationships that bind trade and security in African borderlands. Examples from the Horn, North, and West Africa suggest that African countries are in the difficult situation of having to pursue their regional integration efforts without having the resources or the willingness to control their borders. In other words, the process of regional economic integration is rarely accompanied by an effective securitization of borders, despite Western efforts to establish new border regimes. Technological transfers have marginally improved the ability of African states to monitor the transnational circulation of goods and people. Imported technologies have been instrumentalized by political elites and contested by border communities when they threatened local livelihoods. This integration process differs greatly from the model developed in Europe and North America, where a balance has been found between the opening of markets and control of mobility. It is increasingly challenged by violent religious groups who argue that modern nation-states are incompatible with religious law and that their borders are irrelevant to the community of believers.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 229-234
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2049350
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Author-Name: Andrey Makarychev
Author-X-Name-First: Andrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Makarychev
Author-Name: Anna Kuznetsova
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuznetsova
Title: Russian – Norwegian Borderlands: Three Facets of Geopolitics
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This article aims to explore a paradoxical co-existence of various forms and models of trans-border interactions in areas of direct adjacency of Norway and Russia. Our main hypothesis is that the structural conditions of securitization that became dominant in NATO-Russia relations after the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas produce different effects all across the borderline, directly affecting borderland communities, including mobility, connectivity and public security. As our key point, we posit that the geopolitical conflictuality and the ensuing gaps and ruptures in military security are not automatically projected onto the level of “low” / grass-roots / local politics where there exists a public demand for expanding the existing spaces of interaction in such fields as cultural exchanges, environmental protection and people-to-people contacts. Apparently, the geopolitical divides are more visible and easily identifiable through the mainstream media, while other layers need a different optics allowing to spot various regimes of border functioning and peer into the complex construction of borders, where geopolitical divisions and partitions are counter-balanced by sub-national activities and initiatives discarding the logic of geopolitical conflict and alternating it with the grass-roots public / cultural diplomacy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 379-398
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1777887
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Author-Name: Saleh Shahriar
Author-X-Name-First: Saleh
Author-X-Name-Last: Shahriar
Title: India’s Economic Relations with Myanmar: A Study of Border Trade
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the nature of border trade between India and Myanmar. India is an emerging power with fast economic growth, geographic size, natural resources, and dynamic population. It has adopted a new foreign policy and economic orientation towards its South East Asian bordering neighbors including Myanmar. China, however, initiated a global strategy-the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013. This study looks into the geopolitics of the Sino-Indian rivalry in the context of the global power configurations and inter-state economic relations. To this end, the methodology of a case study for Moreh-Tamu border trade along the Indo-Myanmar cross-border region has been applied in this paper. The findings reveal growing trade relations and bilateral economic engagements of both India and Myanmar. India’s Northeastern border issues, ASEAN connectivity, the BCIM economic corridor of the BRI, India’s neighborhood policy, as well as the geo-political dynamics, among other factors, are the principal factors affecting India-Myanmar border trade. The problems of the Sino-Indian rivalry, weak borderlands infrastructures and ethnic insurgencies have emerged as the major obstacles to border trade along the Moreh-Tamu border region. This study concludes that India and Myanmar are increasingly engaged in cross-border trade and economic cooperation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 599-621
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1816202
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Author-Name: Haroldo Dilla
Author-X-Name-First: Haroldo
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilla
Author-Name: Maria Fernanda Cabezas
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Fernanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cabezas
Author-Name: Margarita Tamara Figueroa
Author-X-Name-First: Margarita Tamara
Author-X-Name-Last: Figueroa
Title: Notes for a Discussion on Latin American Cross-Border Regions
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One of the most significant outcomes of the neoliberal globalization – and of its consequent relativization of borderland spaces – has been the emergence of cross-border regions. These regions constitute complex spaces that operate as locus for capital appreciation based on the exploitation of differential advantages and unequal exchanges. This paper acknowledges the multi-dimensional nature of such territorialities and goes on to suggest a preliminary typology of cross-border situations in Latin America, based on the economic scales on which these regions are fundamentally constituted. We suggest four types of regions – consuetudinary, self-contained, corridors and globalized – which are described as territorial overlapping and multidimensional space–time assemblies. Lastly, the article raises the need for further research on spatiality, development and governance of these space/time assemblies.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 435-451
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1784033
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Author-Name: James Tangen
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Tangen
Title: Timescapes in Public Policy – Constructing the “Victim of Trafficking”
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Human trafficking is presented as a multidimensional problem, constituted by a complex matrix of borders, vertices and spaces. In spite of the agreement of an international definition of trafficking in human beings some 20 years ago, debates persist about what constitutes human trafficking. The malleability of the concepts within this definition undermines efforts to provide clarity to front-line professionals and the wider public about how to recognize individuals as potential victims, and what rights should be afforded to them (O’Connell Davidson 2013). This paper interrogates the role of time and temporality in the construction of individuals as in/eligible for the status of “Victim of Trafficking.” Adam’s (1998) approach to time as a multidimensional phenomenon, constituted by timeframes, temporality, sequences, tempo, timeliness, and temporal modalities structures the paper, and a case study of R v N [2012] EWCA Crim 189 is used to illustrate the discussion. Consideration is given to the differentiation of offenders from victims and the discrete phases of processing individuals through the criminal justice system. Across all of these categories and the borders between them, time shapes the decision of street-level bureaucrats to construct a complex, multi-layered understanding of efforts to tackle human trafficking in England and Wales.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 475-492
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1787189
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Author-Name: Kristina Korte
Author-X-Name-First: Kristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Korte
Title: “Who Is the Animal in the Zoo?” Fencing In and Fencing Out at the Hungarian-Serbian Border. A Qualitative Case Study
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In 2015, Hungary commenced the building of a fence at its border with Serbia. The current article investigates the Hungarian-Serbian border fence in terms of its meaning in the two countries. Building on recent re-bordering research, it analyzes the context within which the fencing took place, stressing both the domestic and the international dimension. Based on qualitative interviews and a document analysis for Hungary and Serbia, it argues that the fence did not create a conflict between the two neighbors – instead, the international entanglement of the border led to a complex bordering process that extended bilateral relations. In Hungary, the border fortification was used for internal political motives and at the same time aimed to exclude non-European migrants. Due to political circumstances and the filter function of the fence, the Serbian government likewise managed to exploit the border fortification to its advantage. The article introduces the concept of “fencing in and fencing out” in order to analyze the control function that the fence performs on both sides of the border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 453-474
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1787188
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Author-Name: Xavier Ferrer-Gallardo
Author-X-Name-First: Xavier
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrer-Gallardo
Author-Name: Lorenzo Gabrielli
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabrielli
Title: The Ceuta Border Peripeteia: Tasting the Externalities of EU Border Externalization
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On May 18th 2021 more than 8000 people irregularly crossed the EU external border between Morocco and Ceuta. Morocco was accused of not acting diligently enough to prevent this unprecedented influx. Interestingly, this occurred in a geopolitical context of rising tensions within Spanish-Moroccan diplomatic relations-triggered by Trump administration’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Spanish former colony of Western Sahara in 2020. Things reached a peak of complexity when Brahim Ghali, the secretary-general of the Saharawi Polisario Front, travelled to Spain in order to receive treatment for COVID-19 in April 2021. In this light, this contribution argues that, what happened in Ceuta in May 2021 constitutes a handbook example how to manufacture a border/migration “crisis” for foreign policy purposes. The text interrogates the limits and costs of increasing foreign reliance vis-à-vis EU migration and border management policies. And in so doing, it points at two mutually reinforcing consequences of outsourcing strategies, here referred to as the “externalities of externalization”. On the one hand, the growing diplomatic leverage at the disposal of neighboring gatekeeper-countries like Morocco or Turkey; and, on the other hand, the EU-wide electoral growth of far-right, anti-immigration political discourses advocating for even more strictly securitized border practices.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 645-655
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2048680
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Author-Name: Karina Goulordava
Author-X-Name-First: Karina
Author-X-Name-Last: Goulordava
Title: The Wall: The Making and Unmaking of the Turkish-Syrian Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 663-664
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2048681
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Author-Name: Ritapriya Nandy
Author-X-Name-First: Ritapriya
Author-X-Name-Last: Nandy
Title: Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 661-662
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2046486
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Author-Name: Francisco Orgaz-Agüera
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco
Author-X-Name-Last: Orgaz-Agüera
Author-Name: Salvador Moral-Cuadra
Author-X-Name-First: Salvador
Author-X-Name-Last: Moral-Cuadra
Title: The Relevance of the Souvenirs, Food, Experiences and Facilities of a Bordered Destination on the Key Relationship of Perceived Value, Attitudes and Satisfaction
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Borders are geographic areas with great potential for the development of tourism activity, and tourism can contribute to socioeconomic development and the conservation of resources, both cultural and natural. The study addresses the influence of aspects such as food, souvenirs, experiences and facilities on the perceived value, attitudes and satisfaction of visitors towards a border destination. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 583 tourists visiting the northern border of the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti. This geographical area being the main point of flow of visitors between both countries. Using variance-based structural equation modeling based on the partial least squares method, the food, experiences at the destination, and facilities of a border destination have a positive influence on their perceived value. It has also been verified a positive influence of tourist attitudes on the perceived value and satisfaction. Results are very useful for local stakeholders, for the improvement of elements such as souvenirs sale, which can increase tourist satisfaction and contribute to the sustainable development of the region, the creation of stores and/or local businesses.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 513-532
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1792799
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Author-Name: Vladimir Kolosov
Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir
Author-X-Name-Last: Kolosov
Author-Name: Kira Morachevskaya
Author-X-Name-First: Kira
Author-X-Name-Last: Morachevskaya
Title: The Role of an Open Border in the Development of Peripheral Border Regions: The Case of Russian-Belarusian Borderland
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Does an open border necessarily contribute to a higher level of cross-border interactions in comparison to a stricter border regime, to intensification of cross-border contacts and bring social and economic benefits for border regions? Border location of a region often means that it belongs to the economic and social periphery of a country. Is an open border a tool to destroy the vicious circle of interdependence between border and peripheral location? The case of the boundary between Russia and Belarus offers a good opportunity for answering these questions. It is the only boundary in the post-Soviet space where customs and border control practice have virtually never been in place. Its regime and functions are determined by the policy of integration declared by the leadership of both countries. The paper is based on an analysis of statistical sources, 59 expert interviews and 320 structured interviews with local inhabitants collected during field studies in 19 border rayons (2008–2018). The conclusion is that processes of state-building in both countries and the separation of their economic and social space had a much stronger influence on borderlands than the openness of the boundary and the policy of integration. Most border rayons remain depressed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 533-550
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1806095
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Author-Name: Ching-Chang Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Ching-Chang
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: These islands are ours: the social constructions of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 657-658
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2046484
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Author-Name: Henryk Alff
Author-X-Name-First: Henryk
Author-X-Name-Last: Alff
Title: Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 659-660
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2046485
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Author-Name: Sara Svensson
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Svensson
Title: Resistance or Acceptance? The Voice of Local Cross-Border Organizations in Times of Re-Bordering
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National borders in Europe are increasingly subject to re-bordering processes, including the external and internal borders of the European Union. This article asks if and how local cross-border organizations (Euroregions) have reacted to to the recent hardening of these borders. The Austrian-German border is one where border controls have been re-introduced in the wake of the 2015 refugee crisis, and which also has significant local cross-border institutional activity. Based on an analysis of 350 written items, published by six Euroregions during the five-year period 2015–2019, the article finds that the Euroregions have generally not voiced resistance to this development and have not been active in relation to the policy field of refugee or migrant inclusion. When they reacted, the resistance has mainly been embedded in an argumentation linked to instrumental concerns, such as the traffic situation, even though the research also demonstrated the existence of normative arguments related to human rights discourses and rights of migrants.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 493-512
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1787190
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Author-Name: Lena Karamanidou
Author-X-Name-First: Lena
Author-X-Name-Last: Karamanidou
Author-Name: Bernd Kasparek
Author-X-Name-First: Bernd
Author-X-Name-Last: Kasparek
Title: From Exceptional Threats to Normalized Risks: Border Controls in the Schengen Area and the Governance of Secondary Movements of Migration
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As a direct response to the migrations of 2015, seven Schengen member states re-introduced border controls at their national borders, with five of them extending these controls continuously since then. Citing the impact of migration movements, they invoked the clauses of the Schengen Borders Code (SBC) temporarily allowing for such measures in order to counter exceptional threats. Based on a qualitative analysis of the notifications of the member states in question to the European Commission and its response, we examine how migration and migratory movements have been framed as a security issue in order to legitimise the extension of border controls. Drawing on critical security theory and the different conceptualisations of threat-based and risk-based security, we show that despite the frequent invocation of a frame of threat – as mandated by the SBC –, the underlying rationales for upholding border controls are progressively constructed along a frame of risk. This is consistent with a prevalence of risk-based conceptions of security at the level of the European Union. We conclude that the shift from threat-based rationales to risk-based conceptualisations of security undermine the spirit of the Schengen area as an area of free circulation since they tend to normalize the hitherto exceptional measure of internal border controls.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 623-643
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1824680
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Author-Name: Lourens Broersma
Author-X-Name-First: Lourens
Author-X-Name-Last: Broersma
Author-Name: Arjen Edzes
Author-X-Name-First: Arjen
Author-X-Name-Last: Edzes
Author-Name: Jouke van Dijk
Author-X-Name-First: Jouke
Author-X-Name-Last: van Dijk
Title: Commuting Between Border Regions in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium: An Explanatory Model
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Border regions are often not very well connected to the national urban and economic centres and hence perform less well in terms of GDP per capita and unemployment. Cross-border commuting might be a way to improve the economic performance of border regions. This study explores the impact of a set of socio-economic, infrastructural or cultural explanatory variables that drive cross-border commuting in the Dutch-German-Belgium border regions for all outgoing commuters but also by gender, education and age. We found that cross-border commuting is a small-scale phenomenon, but the flows largely respond in the theoretically expected way to regional economic differences. Higher wages in the living region go together with lower cross-border outcommuting. More unemployment in the living region will make international outcommuting rise. Bordering regions with higher scores on the EU regional competitiveness index give lower international outcommuting. Quality of infrastructure does not show significant results. If the language on both sides of the border is the same, this gives more cross-border outcommuting. Males, medium educated and elderly workers show very similar outcomes as the model for all commuters, while cross border commuting of females and higher educates is hardly influenced by differences in the regional economic situation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 551-573
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1810590
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Author-Name: Łukasz D. Wróblewski
Author-X-Name-First: Łukasz D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wróblewski
Title: The Integration of Border Regions in the European Union: A Model Approach
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This study analyzes the problems related to the integration of border regions in the EU. Existing literature on the subject presents a range of models that specify different types of border regions based on the intensity of their interactions and accounting for the causes of their development. It has been suggested that these models may help in evaluating the intensity of cross-border interaction, but such assumptions have not been empirically verified. Moreover, most of the presented models also fail to fully account for integration processes in the EU. Thus, the stages of cross-border integration defined in the literature seem insufficient. The current paper proposes a five-category model for border regions, listing the stages of integration between them: from regions that demonstrate no interaction whatsoever, to cross-border regions – covering at least two border regions – with the most intense interaction. The model has been empirically verified on the basis of selected Polish-German pairs of cities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 575-597
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1816201
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Author-Name: John R. Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: John R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Title: Why “the Best Interests” of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children are Left at the Border: Structural Violence and British Asylum Policies
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This paper examines the impact of the UK government’s asylum policies on unaccompanied asylum seeking children whose protection is supposedly guranteed by the UK’s ratification of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and domestic law intended to secure “the best interests” of children. I argue that the government’s migration regime and associated policies and practices create additional links in an already long chain of structural violence directed at child asylum-seekers which takes the form of a myriad different types of routinized, bureaucratized and banal forms of violence which enmeshes and “harms” these children and which is aimed at preventing them from securing protection.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 847-864
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1824681
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Author-Name: Nona Renner
Author-X-Name-First: Nona
Author-X-Name-Last: Renner
Author-Name: Judith Miggelbrink
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Miggelbrink
Author-Name: Kristine Beurskens
Author-X-Name-First: Kristine
Author-X-Name-Last: Beurskens
Author-Name: Antonia Zitterbart
Author-X-Name-First: Antonia
Author-X-Name-Last: Zitterbart
Title: Schengen Borders as Lines that Continue to Separate? Media Representations of Pandemic Dimensions of Insecurity in Eastern German Border Regions to Poland
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At the internal Schengen borders, integration has long been a guiding paradigm. Nevertheless, it has never been an uncontroversial value. During the COVID-19 pandemic, demands for border closures within the Schengen space were characterized by a new urgency driven by biopolitical attempts to safeguard the respective communities. Our article focuses on the East German border regions to Poland in this conflicting situation. In the light of this crisis, the publicly shared stories and pictures of people living alongside this border demonstrated the strong entanglement of everyday life at this border. By means of an analysis of media articles published during the first two waves of the lockdown, the paper carves out how dimensions of insecurities in the border region arise due to contested negotiations over national orientations and integration. When the borders were shut down in March 2020, media coverage showed strongly rising protest in German–Polish borderlands, from medical staff and care workers, from students and trade people, from artists as well as local administrations. The responses to the COVID-19 pandemic show the potential to fuel debates on resurging nation–state-based politics and to promote nationalist, populist and reactionary positions, seizing upon insecurities and campaigning with emotional politics.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 825-846
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2039265
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Author-Name: Inocent Moyo
Author-X-Name-First: Inocent
Author-X-Name-Last: Moyo
Title: COVID-19, Dissensus and de facto Transformation at the South Africa–Zimbabwe Border at Beitbridge
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This paper explores the coronavirus-induced closure of the South Africa–Zimbabwe border at Beitbridge and its effects on informal cross-border trade activities and migration. It is based on a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), migrant workers, local informal transporters, informal cross-border transporters, bus drivers, and individual couriers (hired to transport goods across illegal border cross border points). The findings suggest that the border closure had a limited impact on ICBT and migration behavior as it led to a transformation and/or reconfiguration of how people contested the Beitbridge border. This suggests that border closures are an ineffective strategy to mitigate the effects of disasters/pandemics, such as coronavirus.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 781-804
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2039267
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Author-Name: Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Yunuen Ysela
Author-X-Name-Last: Mandujano-Salazar
Title: Two Welded into One: The Experiences of Mexican Americans Who Have Dual Citizenship and Live a Transborder Life
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The objective of this study is to add to the discussion of the diverse faces of border life between Mexico and the United States. Focusing on transborder binational Mexican Americans living in the region of Juárez-El Paso-Las Cruces, the study is based on in-depth interviews and discussion groups with 27 informants. The analysis of their narratives showed that they consider themselves different from Chicanos and Mexican Americans who live in other parts of the country. It seems that the transborder element, which gives residents a full understanding of contemporary Juarez culture, is what they recognize as particular for their identity. They consider themselves Mexican in principle, but they have learned to integrate elements of American culture and ideology and to defend their dual citizenship and their binational identity. Although they developed a legal consciousness after their first transition to the United States, their Mexican identity makes them vulnerable to discrimination or racist attitudes from other ethnic and cultural groups. Hence, binational transborder Mexican Americans are a category that is imperative to visibilize in their daily efforts to defend their identity, culture, and rights.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 865-882
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1824682
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Author-Name: Patrick Buckley
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Buckley
Title: Framing Borders: Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 889-891
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2076254
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Author-Name: Andréanne Bissonnette
Author-X-Name-First: Andréanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Bissonnette
Author-Name: Élisabeth Vallet
Author-X-Name-First: Élisabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Vallet
Title: Internalized Borders and Checkpoints: How Immigration Controls Became Normalized Tools for COVID-19 Responses in North America
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This paper examines how checkpoints in North America were first implemented, their use and rationale, and how, through the recent pandemic, they have become public health response tools. Using content analysis and judicial review, this paper contributes to the discussion on border security and surveillance by analyzing checkpoints and how they were implemented in a non-border setting during the pandemic – as well as how their use marked new interior borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 679-697
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968928
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Author-Name: Rabindra Chaulagain
Author-X-Name-First: Rabindra
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaulagain
Author-Name: Wael M. Nasser
Author-X-Name-First: Wael M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nasser
Author-Name: Julie E. E. Young
Author-X-Name-First: Julie E. E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Young
Title: #StayHomeSaveLives: Essentializing Entry and Canada’s Biopolitical COVID Borders
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The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a systematic closure of national borders at a global scale, and a subsequent but selective reopening under the guise of “essential” entry and labor. We examine the Government of Canada’s Twitter messaging around border closures and exceptions, using narrative and textual analysis to interrogate how the government has constructed essential and non-essential entry and work in support of national needs including critical infrastructure that sustains the Canadian economy and population. The Canadian government deployed the essentialization process as a biopolitical mechanism to access the labor pool that already existed within Canada and that was readily available beyond the border. Rather than complete closure, the Canadian border had to be “elastic” allowing the entry and making use of the labor of international students, temporary foreign workers, and people with precarious status to sustain national life. We argue that studying the digital spaces of migration management will remain key in any post-pandemic world.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 723-740
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1985588
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Author-Name: Joan Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Joan
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 885-887
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2076252
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Author-Name: Tracie L. Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Tracie L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: Border Experiences in Europe: Everyday Life – Working Life— Communication — Languages
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 893-896
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2085139
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Author-Name: Serghei Golunov
Author-X-Name-First: Serghei
Author-X-Name-Last: Golunov
Title: Pandemic Borders of Post-Soviet De Facto States
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The article focuses on the phenomenon of post-Soviet de facto borders (viz. the borders of Abkhazia, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Transnistria) in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author outlines similarities and differences of these de facto borders in comparison with internationally recognized ones and compares border policies implemented by individual post-Soviet de facto states. While de facto states utilized their borders to combat the pandemic largely in the same ways as recognized states did, their pandemic border regimes were less legitimate for the international community and thus de facto states were more dependent on cross-border relations with their “patrons,” having no other viable options. The author also argues that even de facto states with similar geographical and political conditions chose partially different policies for managing pandemic bordered restrictions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 741-760
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1943495
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Author-Name: Justyna Kajta
Author-X-Name-First: Justyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kajta
Author-Name: Elżbieta Opiłowska
Author-X-Name-First: Elżbieta
Author-X-Name-Last: Opiłowska
Title: The Impact of Covid-19 on Structure and Agency in a Borderland. The Case of Two Twin Towns in Central Europe
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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked numerous unintended social and political consequences, especially for border regions as many European states decided to temporarily close their borders. This decision had a tremendous effect not only on the work of various actors in border towns, but also on the lives of borderlanders, whose daily practices are embedded in cross-border spaces. By applying a strategic-relational approach (Jessop [2001]. Institutional Re(Turns) and the Strategic – Relational Approach. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 33, no. 7: 1213–35. doi:10.1068/a32183), our article aims to explore the impact of the pandemic on institutional structures and the agency of various actors in two selected twin towns – Frankfurt an der Oder-Słubice and Cieszyn-Český Těšín. Based on both expert, semi-structured interviews with representatives of the above-mentioned towns and a document analysis, it elaborates on the coping strategies deployed to counteract the challenges caused by the border closure, the factors impacting cross-border cooperation, as well as the similarities and differences between the selected cases .
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 699-721
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1996259
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Author-Name: Kathrine Eileen Richardson
Author-X-Name-First: Kathrine Eileen
Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson
Author-Name: Francesco Cappellano
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Cappellano
Title: Sieve or Shield? High Tech Firms and Entrepreneurs and the Impacts of COVID 19 on North American Border Regions
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This study examines the role of international borders in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to unprecedented national decisions to close borders in order to contain the domestic contagion. The idea that borders act as shields conflicts with the needs of cross-border regions, as they rely on networks straddling the borders for goods and services’ provisions. This paper explores different approaches at individual, local, and regional policy levels used to counterbalance such impacts. As evidenced by North American border closures to most non-citizens seeking entry (shield effects), it is important to understand how professionals, firms, and their networks exercised various forms of agency (sieve effects) to negotiate the border and its policies during this most unusual time. Drawing from a comparative study between two North American border regions distinguished for their thriving innovative business ecosystems – Cascadia (Seattle-Vancouver) along the Canada-U.S. border and Calibaja (San Diego-Tijuana) along the Mexico-U.S. border – we seek to understand how COVID-19 measures have influenced cross-border economies through unprecedented responses to crisis management.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 805-824
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2038230
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Author-Name: Valerià Paül
Author-X-Name-First: Valerià
Author-X-Name-Last: Paül
Author-Name: Juan-M. Trillo-Santamaría
Author-X-Name-First: Juan-M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Trillo-Santamaría
Author-Name: Xavier Martínez-Cobas
Author-X-Name-First: Xavier
Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez-Cobas
Author-Name: Carlos Fernández-Jardón
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernández-Jardón
Title: The Economic Impact of Closing the Boundaries: The Lower Minho Valley Cross-Border Region in Times of Covid-19
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The COVID-19 crisis experienced since early 2020 has been the first time in decades that all the boundaries between European Union member-states have been systematically re-set. This paper examines the economic impact derived from re-establishing the boundary on a particular cross-border region located between Galicia (Spain) and Portugal. The paper begins by outlining the theoretical considerations on the interplay between borders and economy. After examining the case-study area and the decisions taken by the Spanish and Portuguese authorities in an attempt to control the spread of the virus in 2020, the article explains the methods used to obtain the results. Two sets of results are presented. Firstly, the direct consequences for cross-border economic activities are considered. Secondly, the fall in Gross Domestic Product is quantified for sectors and municipalities in the cross-border region, distinguishing between, on the one hand, the overall effect caused by the restrictions due to the lockdown situation and, on the other, the precise impact attributed to the re-establishment of the international boundary. This is a worthy addition to previous literature given that this paper details the specific economic effects caused by the COVID-19 crisis in a cross-border region directly affected by the boundary closure.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 761-779
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2039266
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Author-Name: Francisco Lara-Valencia
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco
Author-X-Name-Last: Lara-Valencia
Author-Name: Jussi P. Laine
Author-X-Name-First: Jussi P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Laine
Title: The Covid-19 Pandemic: Territorial, Political and Governance Dimensions of Bordering
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Whether we talk about the global scale of the threat or focus on the disruption and potential reversal of processes and realities that we assumed immutable, the epochal significance of the COVI-19 pandemic is indisputable. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, no other event has revived territorial borders and sent territorialist shockwaves across the world as COVID-19. The wave of contagion and fear that shadowed the discovery of the coronavirus at the end of 2019 was followed by a wave of bordering in the spring of 2020 when borders were broadly closed as a kneejerk reaction to a threat perceived largely as external. With a focus on Europe, North America and Africa, this special issue aims to advance our knowledge of the multiscalar and multidimensional dynamics triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic in various border contexts. The articles in this special issue investigate the response of institutional structures and the agency of regional actors in the face of rebordering, the securitización of the pandemic, the essentialization of fear, the disruption of daily life and livelihoods, the contestation of border closures vis-à-vis questions of survival, and the re/deconstruction of borders dictated by shifting power balances supporting contested border regimes. In the aggregate, this collection of articles reminds us that territory and territoriality remain vigorous and fitting instruments in the toolbox of nation states as demonstrated by the rebordering shocks triggered by the coronavirus pandemic across the world.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 665-677
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2109501
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Author-Name: Saleh Shahriar
Author-X-Name-First: Saleh
Author-X-Name-Last: Shahriar
Title: Making of India’s Northeast: Geopolitics of Borderland and Transnational Interactions
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 883-884
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 08
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2076251
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Author-Name: Kadir Basboga
Author-X-Name-First: Kadir
Author-X-Name-Last: Basboga
Title: A Theme-based Analysis of the Intensity of Cross-Border Cooperation Across Europe
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In this paper, focusing on the European Territorial Cooperation (INTERREG) example, the author compares three selected policy themes to understand what drives cross-border cooperation (CBC) in different contexts. The main argument is that cultural, economic, political, institutional, and geographical drivers of CBC play different roles in determining the intensity of CBC across different themes. To test this argument, three separate regressions are run for the policy themes of education, small and medium sized enterprises, and infrastructure. The regression results support that the intensity of CBC in each particular thematic area is driven by a unique combination of factors. This finding provides important insights on CBC policy-making in the European Union and potentially beyond. Follow-up studies can inform the design of future CBC policies and prioritization of thematic CBC interventions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 955-973
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1833230
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Author-Name: Jose L. Wong Villanueva
Author-X-Name-First: Jose L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong Villanueva
Author-Name: Tetsuo Kidokoro
Author-X-Name-First: Tetsuo
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Author-Name: Fumihiko Seta
Author-X-Name-First: Fumihiko
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Title: Cross-Border Integration, Cooperation and Governance: A Systems Approach for Evaluating “Good” Governance in Cross-Border Regions
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Cross-Border Governance has risen as an opportunity for rethinking integration and development at border regions. However, there is currently not consensus on what can be considered as “good” cross-border governance. From a systems approach, this paper proposes a theoretical framework by establishing a relationship among governance, integration and cooperation and propose criteria for evaluating governance models. The framework is used to analyze the Amazonian cross-border region among Peru, Brazil and Bolivia based on 44 surveys from key cross-border actors. Evidences showed that “environment-oriented” governance models in different scales (territorial, sectorial, etc.) have emerged from the mutual impact between cooperation initiatives and integration processes, where strengthening linkages among governance levels can generate better models.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1047-1070
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1855227
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Author-Name: Alejandra Díaz de León
Author-X-Name-First: Alejandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Díaz de León
Title: “Transient Communities”: How Central American Transit Migrants form Solidarity Without Trust
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Migrants in transit through Mexico are often separated from their social networks; this increases the risks associated with an already precarious process. Through eight months’ worth of ethnography and 40 in-depth interviews conducted on the southern and northern borders of Mexico, this article seeks to understand how migrants compensate for their lack of social networks and find emotional and economic support and information while in transit. The research found that, for Central American transit migrants, the most efficient way to access the necessary resources to move was by forming a community en route – a “transient community.” This community facilitates cooperation and the sharing of resources between its members and other migrants who they do not know and do not trust. It provides: a shared identity created by a common struggle; solidarity and resources; and information and “rules of the game.” The solidarity and the sharing of information and resources facilitate the journey of undocumented migrants and reduce its costs. This study shows that transit migrants form new social arrangements that overcome the uncertainty and violence of life on the road, and that cooperation and solidarity can exist even among people who mistrust each other and share no common social ties.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 897-914
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Dorte Jagetic Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Dorte Jagetic
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Title: A review of Paulina Ochoa Espejo's monograph, On Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1097-1098
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Grazia Tona
Author-X-Name-First: Grazia
Author-X-Name-Last: Tona
Title: Borders as infrastructure: the technopolitics of border control
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1099-1101
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2125042
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Author-Name: Carla Angulo-Pasel
Author-X-Name-First: Carla
Author-X-Name-Last: Angulo-Pasel
Title: Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1103-1104
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2125043
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Author-Name: Peter Polak-Springer
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Polak-Springer
Title: Bordering Zubara: oil politics, the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini conflict, and the making of a modern Arabian (Persian) Gulf Borderland
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This study of the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini conflict over Zubara is a cultural history of, and border studies approach to, one of the most important border contests of the Gulf during the oil concession era. No scholarship has treated this historical region on the northwest coast of Qatar, which is home to the Fort of Zubara, the nation’s most renowned fortress landmark, and a UNESCO world heritage site, as a borderland. However, this article argues that these sites are the legacy of the 1937 conflict, which more than any previous quarrel over Zubara, led to the development of a political culture of bordering. This article examines the emergence of this bordering in its physical, e.g. customs and border guard regime, and cultural-political, e.g. the building of the Fort of Zubara, aspects. Moreover, it treats the 1937 Zubara conflict as part and parcel of an interwar era of global bordering, making comparative reference to Central European borderlands, in addition to other border studies research, as part of the theoretical and analytical framework. This article aims to contribute to a scant literature on borderlands and bordering processes in the Arabian Gulf.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1071-1095
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1855228
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Author-Name: Sewoenam Chachu
Author-X-Name-First: Sewoenam
Author-X-Name-Last: Chachu
Author-Name: Tope Omoniyi
Author-X-Name-First: Tope
Author-X-Name-Last: Omoniyi
Title: Language Ideology and Practice on the Aflao-Lome Borderland: The Case of Two Border Schools
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This paper explores language practices in the school domain in Aflao-Lome on the Ghana/Togo border. Here, the boundary line bisects the Ewe thus creating two contrasting communities: French-speaking Ewe and English-speaking Ewe. Our study investigates language practices in two schools located on either side of the border since the school as a sociolinguistic domain is a contested site of language practice where tensions abound between medium of instruction policy, home language practices and cultural routines. The data analyzed comprised reports and observations of adherence to state medium of instruction policy in the classroom by teachers and pupils, and language in activities outside the classroom when formal “language policing” is negligible or in fact non-existent. It was discovered that the English and French languages were viewed differently on either side of the border and that school policies on language had to make room, in some cases, for the local language.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 915-934
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1824684
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Author-Name: Efrat Ben-Ze’ev
Author-X-Name-First: Efrat
Author-X-Name-Last: Ben-Ze’ev
Author-Name: Nir Gazit
Author-X-Name-First: Nir
Author-X-Name-Last: Gazit
Title: The Fickle Zone: Borderland and Borderlanders on the Egyptian-Israeli Front
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This article is about the intrinsic inconsistency of human actions and relations near the Egyptian-Israeli border. We consider the border and its vicinity at a time of change, when asylum seekers were crossing into Israel in growing numbers (2006–2012) and then when a fence was being built in response (2012–2014). We are basing our findings on an ethnographic study conducted between 2012 and 2018, in which we explored how different border populations – Bedouins, soldiers and asylum seekers – experienced and interpreted the changes. Our perspective shifted between scales in order to understand how global, national and local events were manifested at ground level. The findings point to the fickle conduct of actors and the border-zone: Human behavior and practice tended to change on the spur of a moment; members of groups seemingly in conflict cooperated; tagging and categorizing people according to group was tricky; and power relations between the groups were inconsistent. These findings converse with the scholarship on Nomadology and on borderlands as being in the making.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1025-1045
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1847168
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Author-Name: Marcos Mondardo
Author-X-Name-First: Marcos
Author-X-Name-Last: Mondardo
Title: The Struggle for Land and Territory between the Guarani Kaiowá Indigenous People and Agribusiness Farmers on the Brazilian Border with Paraguay: Decolonization, Transit Territory and Multi/Transterritoriality
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This article analyzes the struggle for land and territory of the Guarani and Kaiowá peoples and of agribusiness farmers on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. This process results from the territorialization of agribusiness through a privatist logic of spoliation and deterritorialization of which the main victims are the Guarani and Kaiowá peoples who occupied their traditional territories. In this struggle, agribusiness farmers build hegemonic multi/transterritoriality through the corporate use of articulated territories on both sides of the border. The Guarani and Kaiowá peoples elaborate a subaltern multi/transterritoriality as a geostrategy of struggle and resistance for the demarcation of traditional territories.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 999-1023
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1836995
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Author-Name: Christiana Holsapple
Author-X-Name-First: Christiana
Author-X-Name-Last: Holsapple
Title: Bordering and Strategic Belonging in Gagauzia
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Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores bordering practices and the politics of belonging in Gagauzia, an autonomous region in Moldova, historically and currently on the periphery of various spheres of influence. I trace the trajectory of Gagauzian as a category and draw attention to weak nation-building and economic dependence as contributing to Gagauzia’s ambiguous positionality, where seemingly-conflicting bordering practices and identity narratives can coexist. Showing how they draw on different categories concurrently to access entitlements through nation-states’ overlapping policies, I bring to light how locals can articulate and experience simultaneous claims of belonging strategically. I explore discourse on commonalities claimed in terms of language, ethnicity, and/or territorial dominion by Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova, ultimately illustrating how a less-clearly-defined, more inclusive space can exist within their convergence. The article places Gagauzia in a broader post-communist borderlands context, utilizing a sub-cultural theoretical lens to contribute to the literature on patterns of belonging “in-between” dominant nation-state structures.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 935-953
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1828142
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Author-Name: Jungwon Yeo
Author-X-Name-First: Jungwon
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeo
Title: Beyond Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Understanding Interorganizational Collaboration for Border Management
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This study examines the structural and procedural characteristics of inter-organizational collaboration operating in U.S. border management practice. Using social network analysis, the study analyzed interorganizational collaboration operating in El Paso, Texas, a border city in the USA. The findings demonstrate strong cross-sector, inter-jurisdictional, and inter-service collaboration between private organizations, especially between those organizations providing diverse human and social services. In contrast, collaboration between the public sector and private sectors is relatively weak. Based on the findings, the author provides some theoretical and practical implications to promote interorganizational collaboration for border management.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 975-997
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1833231
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Author-Name: Jose L. Wong Villanueva
Author-X-Name-First: Jose L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong Villanueva
Author-Name: Tetsuo Kidokoro
Author-X-Name-First: Tetsuo
Author-X-Name-Last: Kidokoro
Author-Name: Fumihiko Seta
Author-X-Name-First: Fumihiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Seta
Title: A Governance Theory for Cross-Border Regions: Identifying Principles and Processes with Grounded Theory
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The rise of governance in border studies has become an opportunity to increase efficiency, generate better institutional arrangements and reduce the gap between theory and practice. However, the multiplicity of theories where cross-border governance can be placed, the lack of consensus on concepts and the multiple disciplines that can be used for studying it have increased the need of more comprehensive theoretical frameworks. From an evolutionary-constructivist approach, this paper explores the principles and processes behind cross-border governance evolution through a Grounded Theory methodology based on 49 interviews. The proposed theory identifies four principles – shared experience, Nation State construction, scale difference and notions of power–, defining governance as a mean and result of the territorialization of cross-border actors’ knowledge construction and power concentration at different levels, sectors and scales, based on five on-going processes – knowledge creation, articulation of relationships, decision-making, implementation & management and appraisal of results –.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 95-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1878924
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Author-Name: Edem Adotey
Author-X-Name-First: Edem
Author-X-Name-Last: Adotey
Title: “Operation Eagle Eye”: Border Citizenship and Cross-border Voting in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
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This article examines the role of elections in bordering through disputes over cross-border voting since Ghana returned to multi-party democracy in 1992. It uses case studies from some communities that border Togo in the Volta Region of Ghana which is the epicenter of alleged cross-border voting. In these communities, “border citizenship” is expressed through the deployment of ritual space, social and political relations which is across national borders. But this begs the question whether border citizens view voting as a right or not, or more specifically, contest the border by participating in elections on either side of the border. This article argues that border citizens are not only involved in contesting the border; one can assume to have a border citizenship and still respect the border in elections by refusing the act of cross-border voting. This study not only contributes to border studies by highlighting the importance of electoral politics in the bordering process but it also brings to light the complexities of cross-border voting, since it shows that border residents in the Ghana-Togo borderland communities do not all perceive cross-border voting positively.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 21-38
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1861551
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Author-Name: Kenneth D. Madsen
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Madsen
Title: Terminus Unleashed: Divine Antecedents of Contemporary Borders
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Terminus is the ancient Roman god of borders and protector of boundary stones. This paper connects the era in which this figure initially played an important role with the present way in which borders are understood. Neoliberalism has resulted in a tightening of border controls, especially by the more affluent countries of the world, and recent populist political trends draw heavily on promises of border security that are in keeping with Terminus’ perceived character as a hardline defender of borders. While today’s borders are distinct in many ways, similarities reflect an evolved understanding based on ancient Roman contributions to contemporary society and a common justification of political mandates with religious language. To illustrate these points, a poem in the form of a Roman ode is incorporated that imagines Terminus’ contemporary incarnation in the context of recent global surges in construction of border barriers and surrounding rhetoric.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 39-58
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1865185
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Author-Name: Miriam Romero
Author-X-Name-First: Miriam
Author-X-Name-Last: Romero
Title: Serving Others: The Relationship Between Missionaries and Sex Workers at the Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 189-190
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2134910
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Author-Name: Albert Roßmeier
Author-X-Name-First: Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: Roßmeier
Author-Name: Florian Weber
Author-X-Name-First: Florian
Author-X-Name-Last: Weber
Title: Hybrid Urban Borderlands – Redevelopment Efforts and Shifting Boundaries In and Around Downtown San Diego
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In recent years, far-reaching urbanization and gentrification processes have been taking place in and around downtown San Diego. These have been accompanied not just by structural upheavals, but by social changes that still await in-depth analysis. In the context of San Diego’s inner-city redevelopment, urban research can profit from a border-theoretical approach, initiating a geography of urban boundaries focused on change processes and the redrawing, shifting, and dissolution of boundaries. Although urban neighborhoods are particularly characterized by differentiation, ambiguity, and fragmentation, border-theoretical findings have rarely been applied on this level. Against this background, the article traces processes of social “ordering” and “othering,” and the shifting of individual-subjective demarcations in the inner-ring suburbs of San Diego—the former warehouse district East Village and the adjacent Mexican-American community neighborhood Barrio Logan. A methodological triangulation of interviews, participatory observations, and cartographic and photographic visualizations illustrates the outward thrust and adaption of multi-dimensional boundaries between the downtown area and the urbanizing first ring—phenomena of what we have called “hybrid urban borderlands.” Aimed primarily at creating a wider understanding of urbanization processes in San Diego’s inner-ring, our project opens up further differentiations in the field of border studies across its disciplinary boundary to urban research.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 137-163
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1882872
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Author-Name: Joan B. Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Joan B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Author-Name: James Gerber
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerber
Title: The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2015: Improvements but Still Large Gaps
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This paper uses Mexico's 2015 Inter-census Survey, the US's American Community Survey, and publicly available data on health, education, and the economy to update the Border Human Development Index (BHDI). The purpose of this index is to provide time series and cross sections of comparative measures of well-being in the states, counties and municipios that line the US-Mexico Border. For the time period spanned by the sample, 1990–2015, we find that both sides of the border have experienced steady gains in the BHDI at all regional levels. The largest gains are observed in border counties and municipios. During this 25 year period, the BHDI for Mexican border municipios increased slightly more than US border counties, indicating a small narrowing of the development gap. A slightly smaller narrowing of the gap is also seen at the national level. Nonetheless, the gap in human development between the two countries, as well as US counties and Mexican municipios remains large, particularly in the area of education.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-20
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1855229
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Author-Name: Kyungsoo Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Kyungsoo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: The Role of the Border Region in Sino-North Korean Trading Networks: A Focus on Dandong, China
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This research investigated the micro-level Sino-North Korean trading practices in Chinese border city Dandong with the help of a network approach. Dandong companies had long-term business relations with North Korea and took brokerage roles by channeling North Korean information, personnel, and products to the outside world. Dandong took an indispensible role in providing access to North Korean-related businesses with the advantage coming from historically-built personal relations, convenient logistics directly linking to Pyongyang, and easy access to North Korean economic agents. They leveraged brokerage roles in Sino-North Korean trading networks and contributed to give the networks a high-level of path-dependency. The strategies of Chinese border companies and less-institutionalized trading system of North Korea provided existing partners distinctive advantages in business relations. These practices that endowed border companies unique brokerage roles are likely to persist until a dramatic change in North Korea and its international environments.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 59-74
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: César M. Fuentes
Author-X-Name-First: César M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Fuentes
Author-Name: Vladimir Hernández
Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir
Author-X-Name-Last: Hernández
Title: State Biopolitics, Illicit Regimes and Security in the Guatemala–Mexico Cross-border Region
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The article examines the way in which the State was replaced in the municipalities that are drug trafficking routes on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, by an illicit regime that represents a particular type of narco-governmentality, which implements bio-political practices that have repercussions on the border security. Due to the institutional and financial weakness of the Guatemalan government, it has little presence on its borders. This is taken advantage of by local and transnational organized crime dedicated to cocaine trafficking, which has replaced the State and replicated its hierarchical form of control and power over the territory and its population, in order to generate a situation of narco-governmentality. In order to maintain power, they use biopolitical practices such as the use of extreme violence against other criminal groups and government security forces, which seek to put the sovereignty of their territory at risk. In addition, they apply a state of siege in their controlled territories, all in order to avoid arrest, ensure their survival, and maintain high levels of profit. As a result, the security of some border municipalities that are routes is very fragile. In this context, improving border security requires to move from a national security approach to one of citizen security.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 165-181
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1884117
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Author-Name: Roxane Doty
Author-X-Name-First: Roxane
Author-X-Name-Last: Doty
Title: Grandmothers on Guard – Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S. - Mexico Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 187-188
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2134909
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Author-Name: Xavier Oliveras-González
Author-X-Name-First: Xavier
Author-X-Name-Last: Oliveras-González
Title: Twin Cities across Five Continents. Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 183-184
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2129427
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Author-Name: B. Dzawanda
Author-X-Name-First: B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dzawanda
Author-Name: M. D. Nicolau
Author-X-Name-First: M. D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicolau
Author-Name: M. Matsa
Author-X-Name-First: M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Matsa
Author-Name: W. Kusena
Author-X-Name-First: W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kusena
Title: Livelihood Outcomes of Informal Cross Border Traders Prior to the Rise of the Virtual Cash Economy in Gweru, Zimbabwe
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Informal cross border trade (ICBT) is a viable economic activity that many people in Zimbabwe depend upon for their survival during times of economic hardship. The research examined the livelihood outcomes of ICBT during the multi-currency era and prior to the extensive use of the virtual cash economy in Zimbabwe. Data collection instruments comprised closed and open-ended questionnaires, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with 497 traders at flea markets in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Results revealed that during the cash economy, ICBT generated livelihood outcomes through the exchange of cash, allowing traders to acquire land and goods and to provide employment. The study recommended the simultaneous use of the virtual cash economy and a cash economy to provide sustainable livelihood outcomes for all stakeholders. In addition, it is recommended that the government of Zimbabwe should integrate ICBT into the mainstream economy by formalization through economic policy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 75-94
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1865187
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Author-Name: Mikel J. H. Venhovens
Author-X-Name-First: Mikel J. H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Venhovens
Title: An Anxious Border: De-facto Spectacles at the Frontier of the Republic of Abkhazia
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This article explores the spatial border dynamics existing between the contemporary de-facto Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of Georgia. It focuses on the (un-) making of borders by exploring the material dynamics of contested statehood in a post-conflict situation. It does this by looking at how the “air of sovereignty” is reinforced through materiality, legal and illegal spectacles along the borderline.I make three arguments. First that the spectacles on the Abkhazian side of the border are meant to present the narrative of sovereignty in order to quell an existential uncertainty that comes with the being a de-facto state. Second, that spectacles on the Georgian side of the border are meant to present a narrative of continuation of the 1992–1993 conflict, thus portraying Abkhazia as part of the Republic of Georgia. Last, both legal and illegal border crossings contribute to the air of sovereignty and legality of the border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 119-136
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1878925
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Author-Name: James Gerber
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerber
Title: Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 185-186
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2134908
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Author-Name: Danijela Majstorović
Author-X-Name-First: Danijela
Author-X-Name-Last: Majstorović
Title: Rethinking Migrant Figures and Solidarity from the Peripheral Borderland of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Following the post-2015 migration crisis, forced migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia (MENASEA) have been stranded in the Western Balkans (WB) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). While WB and BiH citizens have been emigrating in large numbers to the EU to become new labor force, Bosnia’s new immigrants, also in search of livelihood opportunities in the EU, have ended up being stranded in BiH with slim chance of crossing the border into the EU via neighboring Croatia. From the vantage point of this new European borderland, the paper invites us to think these migrant figures together. It raises the issues of entangled inequalities and solidarity amidst border struggles and migration regimes allowing for convergences in postcolonial and postsocialist scholarship.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 303-321
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2156371
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Author-Name: Teodora Jovanović
Author-X-Name-First: Teodora
Author-X-Name-Last: Jovanović
Author-Name: Katarina Mitrović
Author-X-Name-First: Katarina
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitrović
Author-Name: Ildiko Erdei
Author-X-Name-First: Ildiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Erdei
Title: Moving While Waiting for the Future: Mobility and Education in Šid, Serbia
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The status of the “double transit” countries is associated with the ex-Yugoslav (Western) Balkan countries used to depict perspective towards the EU for both the local population and the people on the move coming from the Global South. This article explores mobilities in the Serbian town, Šid, both during the 1990s and in the aftermath of 2015, by analyzing ethnographic fieldwork notes and interviews conducted during joint research. Considering its location, on the very border with Croatia, also forming the external border of the EU, this town has been a stopover and a transit place during various migration movements. The lives of people involved in these movements may seem very different at the moment, but they are connected by similar experiences of mobility and/or “stuckedness.” We ask how one can relate concepts of transit, waiting, hope and stuckedness to the process of education in Šid. Like transit and waiting, education always anticipates some kind of future; it represents “a ticket to the future.” In considering the entangled perspectives of local Šid inhabitants and migrants from the Global South today, we will critically consider the concept of “waiting for the future.”
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 229-246
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2048679
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Author-Name: Iva Grubiša
Author-X-Name-First: Iva
Author-X-Name-Last: Grubiša
Title: From Prison to Refuge and Back: The Interplay of Imprisonment and Creating a Sense of Home in the Reception Center for Asylum Seekers
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This paper highlights the interplay between the feeling of imprisonment and the creation of a sense of home among people living in Porin, the reception center for asylum seekers in Zagreb (Croatia). Considering Porin's residents’ experiences, the author shows their struggles and efforts to create a sense of continuity and home. Particular emphasis is placed on transgressing the idea of the reception center inevitably being a non-place and showcasing the continuous efforts of those living in it to transform it into a meaningful place. Understanding placemaking as establishing meaningful relations, this research focuses on asylum seekers’ lived experiences and practices and aims to highlight complex, blurred, and versatile boundaries and interconnections between the feeling of confinement and creating a home.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 211-228
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2031255
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Author-Name: Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Author-X-Name-First: Carolin
Author-X-Name-Last: Leutloff-Grandits
Title: “We are not Just the Border of Croatia; This is the Border of the European Union … ” The Croatian Borderland as “Double Periphery”
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This article addresses the double-layered border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is simultaneously a nation-state and an external EU border and recently became a hotspot for irregular migration crossings. Based on social anthropological research in the region, the article explores the perspectives of the local population in the Croatian border region and asks how local inhabitants reflect on the changing qualities of their border and their positionings towards the EU, the Croatian center, neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina and migrants from the local South. It argues that the entanglements of the national and EU orders create a local “grey zone” in which various border drawing and border transgression processes take place simultaneously. It shows that this border has hardened, not only for irregular migrants from the global South, but also for the local inhabitants of the border area. At the same time, especially the younger local inhabitants grasp the new mobility possibilities associated with the EU accession of Croatia and take up work in other EU countries. This resultsin a double peripheralization of the region – by the nation state as much as by the EU border regime – and the disintegration and decline of the local community.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 265-282
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2104340
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Author-Name: Vildana Pečenković
Author-X-Name-First: Vildana
Author-X-Name-Last: Pečenković
Author-Name: Nermina Delić
Author-X-Name-First: Nermina
Author-X-Name-Last: Delić
Title: Inclusion of Migrant and Refugee Children in the Education System: Exploring and Overcoming Language and Social Boundaries in the Una-Sana Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) has become strongly affected by migrants from the Global South who aim to migrate into the EU. However, due to the strengthening of the external EU border, migrants increasingly remain in B&H for a longer period making it a receiving country for migrants, 20% of whom are estimated to be children. Since education is a fundamental human right and the inclusion of migrant children in the education system of B&H was essential for their healthy psychophysical development, the Una-Sana Canton initiated activities for their inclusion in the spring of 2019. In this paper, we detail the activities of professors and students of the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Bihać who taught Bosnian as a foreign language to the migrant children which was a basic prerequisite for their inclusion in the regular teaching process. The role of local students in facilitating inclusion of migrant children became especially evident. In addition to emphasizing the value of collaborative learning between teachers, local children and migrant children, this paper also explores psychological, cultural and social boundaries and barriers that shaped the process of language acquisition, inclusive education, and collaborative teaching and learning.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 247-264
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2104339
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Author-Name: Elissa Helms
Author-X-Name-First: Elissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Helms
Title: Social Boundaries at the EU Border: Engaged Ethnography and Migrant Solidarity in Bihać, Bosnia–Herzegovina
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This paper is a reflexive examination of ethnographic positionality in the Bosnian border town of Bihać as it experienced a bottleneck of migrants and refugees from outside of Europe attempting to reach prosperous EU states by traversing the Balkan Route of irregular migration. Drawing from critical border studies and the principles of engaged ethnography, I approach the relational quality of life on the border as it shapes and also produces social boundaries that must be navigated also by researchers. The paper gives an account of my own active engagement in migrant solidarity activities and chronicles how this positioning came to be seen as my aligning myself with one distinct “side” of the social boundary between those working to support migrants in the community, whether as part of the official migration management response or as autonomous solidarians, on one hand, or those advocating the containment and expulsion of migrants, or “anti-migrant” positions, on the other. I show how this positioning helped to reveal the relational quality of social boundaries created through different ways of relating to the border.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 283-301
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2108109
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Author-Name: Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Author-X-Name-First: Carolin
Author-X-Name-Last: Leutloff-Grandits
Title: The Balkans as “Double Transit Space”: Boundary Demarcations and Boundary Transgressions Between Local Inhabitants and “Transit Migrants” in the Shadow of the EU Border Regime
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To introduce the special section, this article presents an analysis of the dynamics of border closures and openings in the countries of the “Western Balkans.” It examines the interconnections between the situation of so-called “transit migrants” on their way through these countries to the EU and the particular position of these countries in the protracted EU accession process, which also affects the situation of the local population. Highlighting the dual nature of – often simultaneous – border closures and border openings, the article first describes the changing mobility options for residents of various Balkan countries in the context of uneven EU accession processes, before outlining the relationship between EU migration management in the “Western Balkans” and the movements of “transit migrants” through and within the Balkans. The aim of the article is to raise awareness of the interconnectedness of the two perspectives on mobility and the different border and demarcation processes unfolding within the EU border and migration regime, which have spatial as well as temporal and social dimensions. These processes lead to various distinctions, but also to connections between migrants from the Global South and the local population in the various Balkan countries, which are further elaborated in the contributions to this special section.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 191-209
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2164043
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Author-Name: Francisco Lara-Valencia
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco
Author-X-Name-Last: Lara-Valencia
Author-Name: Irasema Coronado
Author-X-Name-First: Irasema
Author-X-Name-Last: Coronado
Author-Name: Stephen Mumme
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mumme
Author-Name: Christopher Brown
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown
Author-Name: Paul Ganster
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ganster
Author-Name: Hilda García-Pérez
Author-X-Name-First: Hilda
Author-X-Name-Last: García-Pérez
Author-Name: Donna Lybecker
Author-X-Name-First: Donna
Author-X-Name-Last: Lybecker
Author-Name: Sharon B. Megdal
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Megdal
Author-Name: Rosario Sanchez
Author-X-Name-First: Rosario
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanchez
Author-Name: Alan Sweedler
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Sweedler
Author-Name: Robert G. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: Robert G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Author-Name: Adriana Zuniga-Teran
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana
Author-X-Name-Last: Zuniga-Teran
Title: Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation
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Shortly after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2021, Commissioner Maria Elena Giner called for input into issues of importance to the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC). Responding to her call, a group of border scholars committed to producing a white paper entitled “Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation”. This document was presented to Commissioner Giner at the spring 2022 ABS Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. This commentary outlines the main ideas and recommendations in this white paper, which are intended to strengthen the USIBWC's ability to respond to the challenges of U.S.-Mexico border water management in the 21st century. The paper recognizes the IBWC's long history of handling binational water issues effectively and its demonstrated capacity to respond and adapt to the border region's changing social, political, and environmental conditions. The commentary is capped with Commissioner Giner's response to the white paper, including her commitment to work with the academic community in both countries in creating an IBWC's binational science advisory group, as recommended in the white paper.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 323-334
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2168294
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Author-Name: Daniel Meier
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Meier
Title: Borderlands. Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 337-338
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2156376
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Author-Name: Maria Elena Giner
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Elena
Author-X-Name-Last: Giner
Title: Response of United States Commissioner Maria Elena Giner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 335-336
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2151037
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Author-Name: Biswajit Mohanty
Author-X-Name-First: Biswajit
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohanty
Title: Re-imagining border studies in South Asia
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 339-340
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2156377
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Author-Name: Mélanie Sadozaï
Author-X-Name-First: Mélanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Sadozaï
Title: The Tajikistani-Afghan Border in Gorno-Badakhshan: Resources of a War-Torn Neighborhood
Abstract:
How can a country at peace benefit from bordering a war-torn country? Using the hypothesis of borders as resources developed by Feyissa and Hoehne (State Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework. In Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa, eds. Dereje Feyissa, and Markus Virgil Hoehne, 1–26. Woodbridge: James Currey), I explore the opportunities created by the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan in the Badakhshan region, which is covered by the Pamirs mountains. This paper explores the contradiction that the border is conventionally seen as a danger, yet it is used to enhance cooperation between the two countries on the ground. Without diminishing the challenges involved, I underline the conditions under which the border generates economic, social and identity capital, and becomes a micro-level resource. This positive characterization of the border area as a space of opportunity rather than a limit is informed by original ethnographic insights coupled with existing social science research. With this analysis, I aim to contribute theoretically to the way in which so-called sensitive borders are perceived.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 461-485
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948898
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Author-Name: Nadira G. Mavlyanova
Author-X-Name-First: Nadira G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mavlyanova
Author-Name: Viacheslav A. Lipatov
Author-X-Name-First: Viacheslav A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lipatov
Author-Name: John P. Tiefenbacher
Author-X-Name-First: John P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiefenbacher
Title: Regional Cooperative Disaster Risk Management in Central Asian Borderlands
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This paper examines regional cooperation in disaster risk management (DRM) in the transboundary regions of five Central Asian states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Regional cooperation to reduce disaster potential is a rather recent endeavour both internationally and in the region. Cooperation to enhance environmental security in post-Soviet Central Asia is slowly strengthening monitoring, planning, and prevention of natural disasters with a new approach that anticipates risks and hazards and seeks to reduce the likelihood of disasters instead of responding to the aftermath. Empowerment of regional associations to coordinate states’ activities to understand and solve common problems is needed. The legacy of the Soviet past and the contemporary states’ efforts to participate in regional cooperative organizations are reviewed and the prospects for new instruments for DRM cooperation are discussed. The needs are multifaceted and complex, but there are glimmers of promise for regional and borderland cooperation.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 417-439
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1943493
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Author-Name: Elaine Pena
Author-X-Name-First: Elaine
Author-X-Name-Last: Pena
Title: Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Borders
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 527-528
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2189142
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Author-Name: James M. Hundley
Author-X-Name-First: James M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hundley
Title: Both Sides Now: writing the Edges of the North American West
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 529-530
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2189143
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Author-Name: Marcela Tapia Ladino
Author-X-Name-First: Marcela
Author-X-Name-Last: Tapia Ladino
Title: Migrations and Borders: Contributions to Understand Mobility in Cross-border Areas
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This work is the result of two research projects designed to present a more precise definition of population movements in border areas. To that end, they include a review of topics such as migration, borders, transnationalism and the mobility paradigm. In this analysis, we verify the central role that the notion of migration has played in studies of international and border displacements and highlight the need to propose a more precise definition. Thus, based on the notion of social practices – of different types – coined by Abelardo Morales (2010. Desentrañando Fronteras Y Sus Movimientos Transnacionales Entre Pequeños Estados. Una Aproximación Desde La Frontera Nicaragua-Costa Rica. In Migraciones Y Frontera. Nuevos Contornos Para La Movilidad Internacional, ed. M.E. Anguiano, and A.M. López, 185–224. Barcelona: Icaria), we define these practices as cross-border insofar as they involve two or more national states, which give rise to a series of adjectival mobilities. These can be formal or informal and for different reasons, i.e. healthcare, leisure, trade or work, among others. Likewise, we verify that both cross-border social practices and adjectival mobilities are factors that generate cross-border mobilities in border areas.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 441-459
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948897
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Author-Name: Tania Anupam Patel
Author-X-Name-First: Tania Anupam
Author-X-Name-Last: Patel
Title: Bordering and Othering: Encounters at Shrine of Chamliyal at the India-Pakistan Border
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The paper examines the dynamics of bordering and othering at the shrine of Chamliyal situated at the India-Pakistan border in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The shrine is believed to be more than three-hundred-year-old, represents the social and cultural ties that predate the political differences and territoriality implicit in the India-Pakistan border. The reverence towards the shrine from people in adjoining villages on both sides of the international border present it as an “outlier” seemingly contrary to the formal and popular articulations of nationalist identities evoked by the India-Pakistan border. Following a constructivist approach, the paper explores how the border is socially constituted by the borderlanders in their narratives and practices at the shrine. In the borderlands, these narratives and practices present an array of characteristics that oscillate through assertion, negotiation, and challenge the hegemonic articulations of national identity.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 507-526
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948901
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Author-Name: Johanna Turunen
Author-X-Name-First: Johanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Turunen
Title: Mapping the Idea of Europe – Cultural Production of Border Imaginaries through Heritage
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In contrast to recent reinforcements of Europe's internal and external borders due to the refugee situation on the Mediterranean and the Covid-19 outbreak, talk of European borders has in the past decades focused on the freedom of mobility guaranteed by the Schengen treaty. In many senses, free intra-European mobility has become a recited truth in the EU discourse: a phrase that hides under its repetition the gap between its implied content and empirical realities of many of those who are affected by European borders’ exclusive tendencies. Through the concept of borderscape, this article focuses on the role that cultural products – especially maps exhibited at heritage sites – have in reciting ideas of European borders. In this context, ideas of European heritage are approached as a bordering practice – as an active process of creating, sustaining and challenging cultural border imaginaries and the many in/exclusion they imply. Empirically the article is focused on the European Heritage Label (EHL), a recent heritage action of the European Union (EU). The article asks what is the relationship between national and European representations of space; how are Europe's external borders represented; and what kind of cultural power hierarchies can be identified behind these representations?
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 397-416
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1918569
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Author-Name: Dimitri Almeida
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitri
Author-X-Name-Last: Almeida
Title: The Republic’s Inner Borders: Rethinking French Banlieues Through Critical Border Studies
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Scholarship on borders is still largely focused on the political boundaries and borderlands between sovereign states. However, reframing the issue of French disadvantaged banlieues through critical border studies suggests that the borders that separate socio-economically deprived neighborhoods from other urban areas are in many regards “harder” than those between France and its European neighbors. The article explores the multiple forms of territorial ordering involved in the production and reproduction of these inner borders. It draws on spatial and postcolonial approaches towards urban geopolitics to argue that the borders that enclose the banlieues constitute an essential stabilizing element in contemporary representations of the Republic.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 377-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1913066
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Author-Name: Hynek Böhm
Author-X-Name-First: Hynek
Author-X-Name-Last: Böhm
Title: Five Roles of Cross-border Cooperation Against Re-bordering
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The paper observes an advent of unilateralism, brought by the pandemic, which has restricted cross-border flows and co-operation in the E.U. The pandemic re-introduced borders back in the E.U. and introduced new national border policies, which have complicated the lives of the people in the border regions. This might imply the imperfect communication between local cross-border co-operation stakeholders and central governments. It is therefore proposed to use the set of following five roles, which explain the importance of cross-border co-operation in cross-border regions: (1) multi-level governance form, (2) regional development tool, (3) paradiplomacy form, (4) post-conflict reconciliation tool and (5) Europe-building instrument. As those five roles cover functional, ideational and structural dimensions of cross-border co-operation, they have a potential to prevent the representatives of the central states from one-size-fits-all solutions and respect specificities of borderlands. This should help in the cases of repeated health crises, which would restrain the free border crossing in the E.U.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 487-506
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1948900
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Author-Name: Anaik Pian
Author-X-Name-First: Anaik
Author-X-Name-Last: Pian
Title: Senegalese Migrants in Morocco: Rethinking the Temporalities and Spatiality of Borders at Europe’s Margins
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Morocco in the early 2000s among Senegalese migrants attempting clandestine entry into Europe, the article seeks to sketch a portrait of the border's “inhabitants” and, in so doing, contribute to re-examining the way we think about migration. Taking as a starting point the description and Senegalese hostels in Rabat, it shows how ad hoc forms of social organisation implemented by the migrants reveal the contained and circular forms of mobility in place, at once indirectly produced by migration policies and marking attempts to resist them. While this work is in line with the research on waiting times and spaces within in a context of restrictive migration policies, the article extends the existing discussion by inviting a deconstruction of the dichotomy between mobility and immobility to conceive of “the inhabitants of border spaces-times” as defined by “mobility in immobility and immobility in mobility temporalities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 361-376
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1888146
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Author-Name: Matthew Pflaum
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Pflaum
Title: ADF's Resilience and The Border Crises in the Rwenzoris: Book Review of Conflict at the Edge of the African State: The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 533-535
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2200831
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Author-Name: Viktor Marsai
Author-X-Name-First: Viktor
Author-X-Name-Last: Marsai
Author-Name: Máté Szalai
Author-X-Name-First: Máté
Author-X-Name-Last: Szalai
Title: The “Borderlandization” of the Horn of Africa in Relation to the Gulf Region, and the Effects on Somalia
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Over the last decade, the Gulf states and their rivals have become major players in domestic and regional politics in the Horn of Africa. Through the process of “borderlandization,” their influence has contributed to the shift of the region, and particularly Somalia, from an African borderland to an Arabic-Muslim borderland. In addition, borderlandization has provided a framework for the import into Somalia of conflicts between Gulf states and the debate between different Muslim countries, which could easily jeopardize the fragile Somali state. This is due to the fact that factionalism and division are deeply embedded in Somali politics, thus creating an opportunity for local groups to employ the support of foreign actors to maximize their influence and power.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 341-360
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1884118
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Author-Name: Carlos Daniel Gutierrez Mannix
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Gutierrez Mannix
Title: Shifting Paradigms for Globalized Border Sub-systems
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 531-532
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2200801
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Author-Name: Maélys Druilhe
Author-X-Name-First: Maélys
Author-X-Name-Last: Druilhe
Title: Border Bodies. Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 677-678
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2218395
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Author-Name: Rajarshi Dasgupta
Author-X-Name-First: Rajarshi
Author-X-Name-Last: Dasgupta
Title: Geneva Camp, Dhaka: “Bihari” Refugees, State of Exception, and Camouflage
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This article looks at the lingering complexities of the Indian partition and the current state of refugees in south Asia. More specifically, it deals with one of the most marginal segments known as the Urdu-speaking Bihari’s living in Bangladesh. We trace the arcs of migration, prosperity and dispossession in the life histories of an extended family with two households characteristic of a particular refugee camp, that feature in many mega-cities today. The article plots this in the background of transformation of Dhaka and the metamorphosis of neighborhoods that house the camp. We focuse on details that one may understand in terms of Agamben’s “state of exception.” However, we make a case for a critical difference between “bare life” and a political form of behavior distinctive of the refugees. Their frantic struggle to exist in the middle of exception involves a ‘camouflage’ by constant shuffling of identities but that also means destabilizing their selfhood and a being in transit that may well become permanent.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 603-621
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2164044
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Author-Name: Sanjeev Kumar
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjeev
Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar
Author-Name: Vaishali Raghuvanshi
Author-X-Name-First: Vaishali
Author-X-Name-Last: Raghuvanshi
Title: Cinema as a Discourse on Critical Geopolitics: The Imagery of India–Pakistan Borders in the Narratives of Bollywood Movies
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This paper attempts to map the modes by which cinematic narratives of select Hindi movies produced by Bollywood can be employed as a discourse on critical geopolitics. The focus is to understand how the representations of the India–Pakistan border in a select set of Hindi films tend to portray the psychology of cartographic fundamentalism. Situating the imagery of divided cartographies of the Indian Subcontinent in Hindi cinema, the paper looks at the ways in which the filmic narratives attempt to construct the psychology of border cleavages between India and Pakistan in the demotic consciousness of the viewers. Cinematic representations play a definitive role in constructing popular imagination regarding the issues of identity, refugee crisis and notions of cultural and psychic frontiers. The effects on collective imagination can be visualized by engaging with the narratives and powerful images that cinema is capable of presenting to the viewers. This in turn helps construct and deconstruct the popular notions by altering the dialectics of cognitive mapping.Placing our analysis in this conceptual framework, the paper examines how the psychology of divided cartographies gets inextricably linked to the nationalist construction of the image of India as the righteous self, and the portrait of Pakistan as the vicious other and country's primary enemy.The movies that have been analyzed in the paper are Border (1997), LoC (2003), Bajarangi Bhaijan (2015) and Filmistaan (2012). These movies have portrayed border as conflict-ridden non-porous zones. The paper employs discourse analysis as its methodology and discusses the cinematic reconstruction of the idea of the divided cartographies of the subcontinent on the foundations of the epistemic framework of critical geopolitics.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 623-636
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2129425
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Author-Name: Biswajit Mohanty
Author-X-Name-First: Biswajit
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohanty
Title: Border, Development and Dispossessed Agency
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Every collective social and political action undertaken by citizens and non-citizens within the border spaces is a border act that can be illustrated through ample instances. The border act demonstrates people's collective and cooperative consciousness to sustain, construct, recreate, negotiate and resist borders. The border studies have focussed on the sustenance of the edge through surveillance systems, construction, and reconstruction of borders through symbolic tropes and meaning attribution by different sets of actors experiencing them spatially and temporally. The passivity of agency remains the sub-text in border studies. Long neglected in the border studies literature, the essay examines a different set of agentic actors – the dispossessed people – produced by the development processes and projects undertaken by the public and private companies to uplift the impoverished, underdeveloped regions and persons that became part of the internal border formation. The article illustrates how the internally dispossessed agencies’ contestation of the dominant and hegemonic value of development through their struggle against development projects initiated by the formal state and non-state actors retains the potential to change institutionalised behaviors to reclaim their rights to livelihood.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 563-584
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2101139
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Author-Name: Nasreen Chowdhory
Author-X-Name-First: Nasreen
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhory
Author-Name: Biswajit Mohanty
Author-X-Name-First: Biswajit
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohanty
Title: Dispossession, Border and Exception in South Asia: An Introduction
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Dispossession can be examined from various vantage points across disciplines. Dispossession is a condition that overturns self-sufficiency by forcing individuals and communities to be dependent. The dependency remains on a "mode of governance and a legal regime that confers and sustains those rights” (Butler 2013, 4). Being dispossessed indicate that the subjects are disowned and degraded by normalising powers active in the society, where the subjects are differentiated. The differentiation is manifested in varied conceptions of development and under-development, of dislocated and "counter-hegemonic subjects." This epistemic distinctions remains the basis for spaces of border formation. However, dispossession is a layered activity that involves multiple actors. It is imperative to unpack layers of dispossession to unravel complex border formation. Thus taking dispossession as the central category of analysis, the contributors in the special issue have examined the complex and layered relationship between dispossession and (b)ordering processes to demonstrate overlapping dominations and subjugations: at (in)security, psycho-social, cultural, political, and economic realms. It attempts to unravel mechanisms of contentious politics of dispossession and the “narratives of encounters” of collective imaginations within a relational framework. In the process, it tries to unfold historical processes and political dynamics of exclusion that constitutes internal and external border practices in acts of dispossession.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 537-547
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2226404
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Author-Name: Éva Rozália Hölzle
Author-X-Name-First: Éva Rozália
Author-X-Name-Last: Hölzle
Title: Experiencing Land Loss: Land Dispossession in the Name of National Security in Sylhet District, Bangladesh
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This article focuses on the inhabitants of Ratargul living next to the Sylhet Cantonment of the Bangladesh Army. Since 1977, construction of the cantonment has gradually driven villagers from their land, with no significant opposition. This alienation will soon reach full completion through the new extension plans of the cantonment. Villagers anticipate this expansion with fear and express anger at the poverty caused by land appropriation. However, in their accounts, dukkho (grief) overshadows their fear and anger. What do they grieve for, exactly? The article suggests that dukkho is an expression of grief over material losses but also of pain over the disappearance of previous forms of life. Additionally, dukkho represents villager’s regret over missed opposition opportunities that did not materialize because they were misled; as low-caste Hindus they lack solidarity; and it is still unclear who is responsible for the land capture: the army or the government.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 585-602
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2177705
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Author-Name: Tania Porcaro
Author-X-Name-First: Tania
Author-X-Name-Last: Porcaro
Title: Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 679-680
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2202178
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Author-Name: Nasreen Chowdhory
Author-X-Name-First: Nasreen
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhory
Author-Name: Shamna Thacham Poyil
Author-X-Name-First: Shamna Thacham
Author-X-Name-Last: Poyil
Title: Dispossession and Displacement: Notes from South Asia
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Dispossession appears to be the irreducible “indivisible remainder” in a refugee's everyday life. The deprivation that causes them to undertake forced migration is the tangible outcome of their material dispossession of rights as a citizen of the state. The biased global protection framework for refugees inadvertently perpetuates their predicament by providing them protection, but simultaneously dispossesses them of their dignity. This article introspects substantively the material dispossession of rights of refugees and addresses the dispossession of dignity in a normative and metaphysical sense.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 549-562
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2151032
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Author-Name: Meghna Kajla
Author-X-Name-First: Meghna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kajla
Author-Name: Nargis Jahan
Author-X-Name-First: Nargis
Author-X-Name-Last: Jahan
Title: Splinters in the Citizenship of India, Legality, and Social Trauma: National Register of Citizens
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The article studies the process of National Register of citizens in relation to the changing Indian citizenship laws. Scholars note that the Indian citizenship was based on Jus Soli, but gradually it is changing to Jus Sanguinis which is leading to an exclusionary framework (Roy 2020; Jayal 2019a). The process of exclusion is based on ‘foreigner’, which is in constant flux in the context of post-colonial India. The foreigner as conceptualized by Assamese leadership is based on regional and historical markers, whereas the Indian state understands foreigner as ‘not Indian’. The article argues that the exercise of NRC is reformulating the conception of ‘foreigner’ and simultaneously introducing new forms of legality to acquire citizenship through the bureaucratic process of documentation. The article shows how citizenship laws are changing by taking region based specific concerns that are rooted in colonial history which are devising exclusionary forms of citizenship.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 637-656
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2115389
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Author-Name: Samata Biswas
Author-X-Name-First: Samata
Author-X-Name-Last: Biswas
Title: Fences, Goods and “Police”: Figurations of the Border in Manjira Saha's Chhotoder Border
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In this article, I closely read Manjira Saha’s 2018 volume Chhotoder Border. a collection of children's line drawings and short narratives collated from school children in the India- Bangladesh borderlands. Certain recurring tropes emerge from these rough drawings and short descriptions, rife with spelling mistakes. The border, an English word repeatedly transcribed in Bengali, does not need an introduction or justification in the lives of these children of the borderlands–the materiality of the border is represented through barbed wire fences, through the “police” who are at once scary and helpful, and the repeated, casual reference to trafficking in goods. I identify the materiality and the affective dimensions of the border through the narratives and drawings in Chhotoder Border. This article analyses the linguistic and visual texts collected by Saha in the volume to understand the framing of the materiality of the Indo- Bangladesh border as well as its affective import among the students who are the contributors to Saha's volume. In so doing, it contributes to the burgeoning discourse around the “cultural aspect of borders”. By investigating the “figurations” or narrative tropes/themes present in these border narratives this article furthers the understanding of discursive construction and circulation of borders.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 657-675
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2129424
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Author-Name: Gizem N. Iscan
Author-X-Name-First: Gizem N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Iscan
Title: Open Doors and “Open Wounds”: Bearing Witness to Borders and Changing Discursive Formations on Refugees and Migrants in Turkey
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On February 28th, 2020, with President Erdogan’s claim to have “opened the doors,” refugees and migrants made their way to the Turkish borderlines with Greece and Bulgaria, only to experience militarized policing, hazardous crossings by sea, and deadly encounters. By employing a critical discourse analysis and using Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands theory and lens, the article argues how Turkish borderlines with Greece and Bulgaria have transformed into a borderland due to the Justice and Development Party’s (JDP) shifting discursive formations against migrants and refugees. The article analyzes public speeches and statements of President Erdogan and politicians from the JDP between the years 2014–2020. The discursive shift from honorable guests and Muslim fellows to refugees and migrants being a burden on the Turkish state has led Greece and Bulgaria to heighten the militarization of the borderlines both on land and sea, forming a complex security landscape, a topography of cruelty, and a borderland. Furthermore, the article contextualizes how this infected environment becomes an “open wound,” breaking down families, futures, and bodies as well as constructing individual and collective spaces of (un)belonging, trauma, and displacement.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 745-763
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1974923
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Author-Name: Hakan Ünay
Author-X-Name-First: Hakan
Author-X-Name-Last: Ünay
Title: Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918–1946
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 893-894
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2239255
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Author-Name: Faranak Gholampour
Author-X-Name-First: Faranak
Author-X-Name-Last: Gholampour
Author-Name: Borbála Simonovits
Author-X-Name-First: Borbála
Author-X-Name-Last: Simonovits
Title: Exploring the Migration Process of Iranian Asylum Seekers in Europe: A Case of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Understanding the irregular migrants’ motivations for leaving their country of origin and their experiences in the host country have always been seen as an important topic in the field of migration studies. However, there is currently a gap in the literature on this subject area especially in the case of Iranian asylum seekers in Europe. Therefore, the current paper serves as a preliminary study for more comprehensive research that explores the migration process of Iranian asylum seekers in two main European transit countries based on semi-structured interviews. In total, there were 17 Iranian asylum seekers (M age = 36) recruited from Serbia (n = 8) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (n = 9). It explored their motivations for leaving Iran and the greatest difficulties they faced on their way to Europe. We found that the main motivations of Iranian asylum seekers for leaving Iran were due to the lack of job security, lack of social freedom, economic and political issues, family issues, and religious persecution respectively. All interviewees claimed that they did not have any idea about the difficulties faced by irregular migration when they were planning to leave Iran irregularly to Europe.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 865-886
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2013296
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Author-Name: Fabian Gülzau
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian
Author-X-Name-Last: Gülzau
Title: A “New Normal” for the Schengen Area. When, Where and Why Member States Reintroduce Temporary Border Controls?
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This article investigates the reintroduction of temporary border controls in the Schengen Area. The Schengen Borders Code (SBC, Article 25 et seq.) allows signatory states to reinstate temporary border controls in specific circumstances that constitute a serious threat to public policy or internal security either due to foreseeable events (Art. 27), situations that require immediate action (Art. 28) or exceptional circumstances caused by deficiencies at the external border (Art. 29). In response to successive “polycrises”, signatory states have made ample use of this previously rarely-used policy instrument. This article explores the reasons for temporary border controls, their extent and duration, in order to address when, where and why member states reintroduce them. The novel data is based on notifications that Schengen members use to inform the EU Commission about their intent to reintroduce temporary controls at their land borders (1999–2020). The analysis finds that member states expanded the use of temporary border controls in terms of number and duration, as the intended purpose of temporary border controls shifted from the protection of specific events to immigration control.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 785-803
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1996260
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Charmillot
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Charmillot
Title: (Im)moral Mobilities in a Swiss Borderland
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Based on an ethnographic case study in a Swiss valley on the border with France, this paper sheds light on the emergence of a regime of (im)moral mobilities. It investigates how and why the presence of a specific border in a peripheralized region – in this case a national border separating spheres of income inequality – informs and results in dynamics of morally contested mobilities. The analysis shows how some cross-border mobilities, while being legal (such as living in Switzerland and shopping in France or living in France and working in Switzerland), are negotiated by borderlanders, who perceive them as damaging to the economic and social well-being of the valley. It focuses on everyday practices and discourses to illuminate the informal and mundane (re)production of borders and boundaries. The deployment of the regime of (im)moral mobilities – and all the discourses and practices it comprises – produces immoralized individuals who are stigmatized, as well as moralized persons who feel they belong to a collective.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 765-784
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1980734
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Author-Name: Andrea Masala
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Masala
Title: Borders. Journeys into Contemporary Art
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 891-892
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2239254
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Author-Name: Henrik Basche
Author-X-Name-First: Henrik
Author-X-Name-Last: Basche
Author-Name: Francesco Spera
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Spera
Title: Interactions between Key Factors that Influence Cross-Border Cooperation in Public Transport: The Case of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
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Several factors that influence cross-border cooperation (CBC) in spatial planning in Europe – including technical, legal and cultural factors – have been observed empirically in recent years. However, the importance and interactions among these may vary significantly between the specific fields of spatial planning (e.g. mobility, economic clusters, energy networks or urban-regional partnerships). To determine the more specific implications these factors have on public transport where obstacles to CBC are particularly evident, the authors conducted nine interviews with public transport and mobility planners in the Belgian-Dutch-German borderland. These interviews revealed major interactions between key factors (e.g. technical, political and financial) that influence CBC in public transport. Thus, it is challenging to determine the individual importance of any of these factors. In this case study region, stakeholders have used different forms of institutionalization to mitigate obstacles and further promote cross-border public transport.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 681-698
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1957978
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Author-Name: Itır Aladağ Görentaş
Author-X-Name-First: Itır
Author-X-Name-Last: Aladağ Görentaş
Title: Reclaiming migration- Voices from Europe's ‘migrant crisis’
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 887-889
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2226403
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Author-Name: Timur Dadabaev
Author-X-Name-First: Timur
Author-X-Name-Last: Dadabaev
Title: Nationhood through Neighborhood? From State Sovereignty to Regional Belonging in Central Asia
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This paper highlights the importance of reconsidering the meaning of the nationhood within artificially created borders in Central Asia in both theoretical and regional settings. This paper argues that there is a dichotomy in the images used to describe CA regional relations and nationhood in the IR discipline that either extensively relies on arguments along the lines of rivalry, domination, and spheres of influence or, alternatively, attempts to go beyond rationalist rhetoric by focusing on local understandings of various concepts and termswith little, dialog between these two theoretical camps. This paper emphasizes the way neighborhood in Central Asia is tightly integrated into the nationhood construction through the notions of brotherhood/fraternity (birodarlik/kardoshlik/baurlastyk) and of the shared norms of endurance (sabr) and informal collective decision-making (maslahat) for nationhood and region building. Unpacking these meanings contributes to the task of creating a more diverse and inclusive IR discipline reflective of various regional specificities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 825-843
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2006750
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Author-Name: Marta Smolińska
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Smolińska
Title: Borderscaping the Oder-Neisse Border: Observations on the Spectral Character of This Current Between Times in Border Art
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This paper offers a critical analysis of contemporary artworks and initiatives directly referencing the Oder–Neisse border and portraying the two rivers as border rivers. River borders are interpreted as human constructs. The artworks are analyzed from a interdisciplinary perspective in their geopolitical, cultural, and historical context via theories of border art (Amilhat-Szary, Dell’Agnese, Guinard), critical border studies and borderscaping (Brambilla, Schimanski), border assemblage (Sohn), the aesthetic regime (Rancière), hauntology (Derrida), the boundary object (Häkli), realms of memory (Nora), spatial semiotics and sociology of space (Massey, Löw), phenomenology, geopoetics, memory studies, and cartography in its role as a subversive strategy for mapping borderlands. The Oder-Neisse border in border art not only triggers border narratives reflecting the historically complex German-Polish relations, but also has the potential to redefine binding aesthetic regimes, address taboos, and create counter-hegemonic borderscapes. This art reveals clearly the relative newness of the Oder–Neisse border, imposed in 1945, which continues to impact interpretation of the history of Polish-German relations.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 845-863
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2013295
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Author-Name: Regina P. Branton
Author-X-Name-First: Regina P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Branton
Author-Name: Rachel S. Torres
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Torres
Author-Name: Justin Walsh
Author-X-Name-First: Justin
Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh
Author-Name: Hope Dewell Gentry
Author-X-Name-First: Hope
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewell Gentry
Title: Mexican Immigrant Acculturation: The Impact of Political, Social, and Economic Characteristics of One’s Sending State
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Immigration from Mexico has been a politically salient topic for decades and continues to be in the current political landscape. In this paper, we consider the push factors of the sending state that influence return migration, as opposed to much of the literature that focuses on the pull factors of the receiving state. Specifically, we hypothesize that Mexican states’ economic, political, crime, and border contexts influence a Mexican migrant’s position on whether or not to return to Mexico. To test the hypotheses, we utilize the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) merged with Mexican sending state socioeconomic, political, crime, and border location data. The findings lend evidence that push factors impact return migration patterns for Mexican migrants, particularly political, crime, and border context.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 805-823
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2006749
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Author-Name: Patrick C. Lalonde
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lalonde
Title: Border Security Meets Black Mirror: Perceptions of Technologization from the Windsor Borderland
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This article combines findings concerning institutional discourses with knowledge of frontline officials and non-officials gleaned from qualitative interviews with border services officers (BSOs) and travelers living and working in the Windsor, Ontario, Canada borderland to discuss the technologization of modern Canadian borders. Findings generated from interview data reveal that both frontline officials and non-officials experience a border where the personal narrative and performativity of the embodied subject traveler is increasingly irrelevant, with officer decision-making supplanted by information contained in databases. Findings also explore various dangers associated with increased simulation and cyborg work, including database errors having demonstrable consequences on the mobility and rights of human beings; the colonization of the lifeworld of BSOs by digitized risk technologies ultimately rendering officers incapable of asking questions, looking for indicators, and making informed decisions on the basis of anything other than databases; and the associated human rights, privacy, and legal implications that are potentially wide-ranging and extremely troubling.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 723-744
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968927
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Author-Name: Kevin J.N. Curran
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin J.N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Curran
Title: El Paso – Juárez: Radio and the Invisible Border
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The neighboring cities of El Paso, USA and Juárez, Mexico share a 440-year history. In the almost 100 years since radio came to both cities, listeners have found their favorite stations with little regard for which side of the Rio Grande in which it is licensed. This article starts with how radio developed in the region, a court case that set a US precedent, and the use of early Mexican stations to reach immigrants in the US. It then looks at the contemporary situation where cross-border targeted stations balance US and Mexican regulations. It will be shown that border agnostic listening continues. It also considers how recent changes would allow a Mexican firm to own U.S. stations and a U.S. firm to own Mexican stations.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 699-721
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1957979
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Author-Name: Anissa Maâ
Author-X-Name-First: Anissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Maâ
Author-Name: Julia Van Dessel
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Dessel
Author-Name: Amandine Van Neste-Gottignies
Author-X-Name-First: Amandine
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Neste-Gottignies
Title: Information Directed Towards Migrants and the (Un)Making of Borders: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Between Countries of Origin, Transit, and Destination
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Migration information campaigns and awareness-raising activities are increasingly used by Western governments as a “soft” tool of border enforcement in countries of origin, transit, and destination. Acting upon perceptions and aspirations, these information provision initiatives aim at convincing (potential) migrants to remain in or “voluntarily” return to their country of origin. As they rely on security and humanitarian rationales, they gather heterogenous actors whose practices oscillate between migration control and assistance. Yet, despite their apparently consensual nature, these initiatives bring out conflicting interests and generate contestations on the ground. In this perspective, this SI approaches information as a highly crowded and disputed field to grasp the complexity of power relationships in a restrictive migration context. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective, it investigates the discourses and norms conveyed by governmental initiatives that use information as a tool to control mobilities; the communication strategies defined by state and non-state actors to reach (potential) migrants; and the everyday practices deployed by migrants themselves to navigate this disputed information landscape.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 895-900
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2261455
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Author-Name: Liao Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Liao
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1099-1100
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2249910
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Author-Name: Daniela Dimitrova
Author-X-Name-First: Daniela
Author-X-Name-Last: Dimitrova
Author-Name: Emel Ozdora-Aksak
Author-X-Name-First: Emel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ozdora-Aksak
Title: What a Difference Context Makes: Comparing Communication Strategies of Migration NGOs in Two Neighboring Countries
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This research study compared non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the area of migration in two neighboring countries – Bulgaria and Turkey. Utilizing in-depth interviews with 39 NGO professionals in both countries, the analysis identified critical differences in public opinion dynamics, organizational structures and interdependencies, and government relationships. Further analysis unveiled how the local socio-economic and political context had impacted NGO communication strategies as well as the specific communication channels, public engagement activities, and social media campaigns in each country. Implications for communication scholarship during times of increasing migration flows and globalization are discussed.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 939-956
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2161065
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Author-Name: Alagie Jinkang
Author-X-Name-First: Alagie
Author-X-Name-Last: Jinkang
Author-Name: Valentina Cappi
Author-X-Name-First: Valentina
Author-X-Name-Last: Cappi
Author-Name: Pierluigi Musarò
Author-X-Name-First: Pierluigi
Author-X-Name-Last: Musarò
Title: “Back Way” Migration to Europe: The Role of Journalists in Disseminating Information Campaigns in The Gambia
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Faced with food insecurity, unemployment and broken infrastructure, many Gambian youth risk their lives through irregular and dangerous journeys to Europe – the so-called “back way” – with the hope to maximize opportunities for “better life conditions”. Concurrently, local and Western governmental and non-governmental organizations implement in the country information campaigns on the risks of irregular migration, thus complementing extraterritorial border policies with symbolic bordering practices. This article explores the role of Gambian journalists in circulating narratives, including information campaigns, about “back way” migration to Europe, both as content creators and content disseminators. Starting with an overview of these narratives, this paper discusses the results of an online survey with 54 Gambian journalists, conducted between 2020 and 2021. Our findings show that journalists’ communication strategies are shaped both by the limits and the opportunities of the Gambian information ecosystem inviting further research on local journalists’ potential role in reproducing or negotiating Western discourses about irregular migration.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 901-918
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2156375
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Author-Name: Chiara Galli
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Galli
Title: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing? What Central American Unaccompanied Minors Know About Crossing the US-Mexico Border
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This paper examines what Central American unaccompanied minors know about the unauthorized journey to the US and protective US immigration laws. I find that, contrary to policymakers’ assumptions, children know little about US immigration laws, but they are well aware of the dangers of the journey. I argue that the composition of migrant networks and the strength of ties shape how children acquire information and resources indispensable to plan unauthorized trips to the US, for which most respondents relied on smugglers. Unaccompanied minors who had “strong” ties to parents in the US had more access to information and resources than those with “weak” ties to non-parent relatives. Yet even “strong” ties deteriorated after years of family separation imposed by US immigration policy, undermining communication in families across borders, with implications for how trips were organized and what children knew. These findings extend adult-centric migration theories by centering the experiences of children.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 975-993
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2200828
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Author-Name: Ida Marie Savio Vammen
Author-X-Name-First: Ida Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Savio Vammen
Author-Name: Katrine Syppli Kohl
Author-X-Name-First: Katrine Syppli
Author-X-Name-Last: Kohl
Title: Affective Borderwork: Governance of Unwanted Migration to Europe Through Emotions
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This article explores how contemporary European migration governance utilizes affect and emotions to govern (unwanted) migration. Building on ethnographic fieldwork, we aim to show how emotions are used to bring the border alive beyond the actual geographical border, both inside Europe and in countries of origin. By juxtaposing two cases we highlight the interlinkages but also the differences between an, IOM-led, information campaign targeting the emotional register of the local population in rural Senegal, and a series of motivational interviews conducted by the Danish police targeting rejected asylum seekers refusing to return to their country-of-origin. We demonstrate how particular emotions are harnessed in these interventions to evoke morally charged spatial geographies that normalize racialized global inequalities to impact the (im)mobility of unwanted migrant subjects. Additionally, we seek to disentangle the ambivalent encounters between the interventions and the people they target. We analytically bridge cases that are often dealt with as separate phenomena in the academic literature, to tell a more nuanced story of how contemporary affective borderwork shapes European border externalization and internalization practices.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 919-938
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2156374
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Author-Name: Livio Amigoni
Author-X-Name-First: Livio
Author-X-Name-Last: Amigoni
Author-Name: Luca Giuseppe Queirolo Palmas
Author-X-Name-First: Luca Giuseppe
Author-X-Name-Last: Queirolo Palmas
Title: The Value of Information. Mobility and Border Knowledge Battlegrounds in the Ventimiglia Region
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This contribution explores the acquisition, circulation and negotiation of knowledge related to mobility and border crossing among migrants at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia. Despite governmental deterrence policies and border controls, the pursuit of “secondary movements” seems not to decrease, and is increasingly putting Europe to the test. In this context, the underground knowledge network that exists can be used to circumvent legal and geographical borders and to gain access to forms of citizenship. The “right” information is thus fundamental in determining the level of risk embedded in the various pathways and practices of de-bordering, as well as in constructing specific behaviors and migration carriers. To examine contentious information issues, we have participated in activities supporting the Progetto20k collective, including: Eufemia Info&legal point, an independent solidarity center in Ventimiglia; and the Italian-French Border Guide, a project designed to produce and spread mobility knowledge.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1057-1079
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2226398
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Author-Name: Melissa Wall
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Wall
Title: Resistance to Denmark’s Ad Hoc Campaign Against Asylum Seekers
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This paper examines actions taken in response to the Danish government’s use of policies and public communications to try to asylum seekers crossing its border. Drawing on interviews with grassroots civil society organizations and refugees as well as assessment of refugee-oriented public projects, this analysis finds that civil society and refugees engaged in a range of actions to resist national policies. Such actions included the production of alternative narratives about borders, prioritizing humanitarian practices, and highlighting asylum seekers’ lived experiences as important forms of border and migration knowledge and expertise.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1081-1097
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2168292
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Author-Name: Chloé Ollitrault
Author-X-Name-First: Chloé
Author-X-Name-Last: Ollitrault
Title: Moving to a Non-Metropolitan Area: The Information Channels of International Migrants Going to the Department of Calvados
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In the context of the development of national dispersion policies in Europe, a growing body of literature has been focusing on small and mid-sized cities as points of arrival for migrants in these specific cases of forced mobility. However, little work has been done on the trajectories of migrants who voluntarily move to apparently unattractive territories. Based on the example of the department of Calvados in Normandy, and drawing on qualitative data, this paper analyses the information practices developed by international migrants that are in a situation of information precarity and who are faced with Europe’s externalized and internalized border control. By looking to the source and nature of elements that were the reason for their decision to move to Calvados, this article sheds light on the types of information and actors that shape migrants’ itineraries. Furthermore, this article discusses the dynamics of trust and distrust between migrants and their various interlocutors and questions the characteristics of those identified as relevant providers of information. This article highlights the impact of administrative procedures and reception arrangements on migrants’ trajectories, as well as the central, albeit ambivalent, role of transnational social capital in relation to finding the right information in a new territory.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1035-1055
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2229843
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Author-Name: Anissa Maâ
Author-X-Name-First: Anissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Maâ
Author-Name: Julia Van Dessel
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Dessel
Author-Name: Ida Marie Savio Vammen
Author-X-Name-First: Ida Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Savio Vammen
Title: Can Migrants do the (Border)Work? Conflicting Dynamics and Effects of “Peer-to-peer” Intermediation in North and West Africa
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Since the 1990s, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have been funding information and awareness-raising initiatives to deter irregular immigration. These programmes increasingly rely on the involvement of intermediaries with a migration background in so-called “peer-to-peer” information dissemination activities. Their “peerness” is considered an efficient tool to gain (potential) migrants’ trust, and ultimately enforce migration and border control. However, while “peerness” between migrants and intermediaries is generally taken for granted by migration and border studies, it is crossed by conflicting dynamics and generates contrasted effects on the ground. This paper interrogates how various migration experiences are captured and defined as “peerness” for control purposes, and, simultaneously, how it is mobilized and enacted by migrant actors in different contexts. Empirical insights from three case studies are brought together, each of which engaging with an emblematic figure of “migrant intermediation”: the Senegalese “diaspora” in the EU, “transit migrants” in Morocco, and “returnees” in Senegal. The paper argues that “peer-to-peer” information dissemination entails inherent tensions and contradictions which can ultimately come to challenge borderwork. Finally, it demonstrates that beyond the question of its efficiency, “migrant intermediation” transforms and reinforces both social hierarchies and relations of power within local migration industries.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 995-1013
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2108111
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Author-Name: Serghei Golunov
Author-X-Name-First: Serghei
Author-X-Name-Last: Golunov
Title: Patterns in border security: regional comparisons
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1101-1102
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2249922
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Author-Name: Verena K. Brändle
Author-X-Name-First: Verena K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Brändle
Author-Name: Petro Tolochko
Author-X-Name-First: Petro
Author-X-Name-Last: Tolochko
Title: The “Who is Who” of Migration Information Campaigns on Social Media
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This article investigates online campaigns targeting potential migrants to inform them about and dissuade them from irregular migration to the EU. By focusing on social media networks, this article traces the different actors who circulate such campaigns online and asks how they relate to each other. Applying social network analysis on three different campaigns on Facebook and Twitter respectively, we analyze both overall network structures across social media platforms and the actor types engaged in sharing campaign content. Based on Critical Border Studies, we suggest that migration information campaigns should be understood as bordering practices, and empirically investigate them in terms of their informal performance of borders. By shedding light on the ways in which informal performance takes place in such campaigns, our article highlights how migration governance actors construct borders in their own interest, and so contributes to shedding light on migration campaigns as one of the most evasive tools in migration governance.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1015-1033
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2202210
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Author-Name: Antoine Pécoud
Author-X-Name-First: Antoine
Author-X-Name-Last: Pécoud
Title: Migration Control as Communication? Voluntary Returns, Information Campaigns and the Justification of Contested Migration/Border Governance
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Assisted-voluntary returns and information campaigns are common tools in immigration policy. They participate of a communicative strategy, whereby migrant-receiving states do not only exercise their sovereign right to control their borders, but communicate with migrants about borders and migration. This article discusses the relationship between control and communication. On the one hand, communication is showed to be tactically used to complement and achieve control, leading to the strategic (and usually untruthful) diffusion of negative messages about migration. On the other hand, and like all communication, assisted-voluntary returns and information campaigns rely on a rational/normative basis, by putting forward sensible arguments (for example about the risks associated with unauthorized migration) that appeal to the rationality of the audience and have, to some extent, the performative effect of increasing the acceptability of immigration policy.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 957-973
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2156372
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Author-Name: Raffaela Puggioni
Author-X-Name-First: Raffaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Puggioni
Title: Emergency, Solidarity and Responsibility: The Ethics of Face-to-Face (Border) Encounters
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Since the so-called 2015 Migration Crisis, great attention has been devoted to borders, activism and solidarity. While a part of the literature focuses on the political and/or humanitarian aspects of solidarity, this article suggests reading acts of solidarity through ethics. Looking at the Roya Valley, at the Italo–French border, I suggest that many local initiatives to assist and help migrants in transit were driven mostly by a sense of duty, rather than charity or political motives. The emergence of three specific circumstances – face-to-face encounters, conditions of emergency and a sense of duty – made locals offer solidarity because of a sense of responsibility. Faced with a choice between protecting themselves from legal charges or protecting human lives – those of migrants crossing along their route – or protecting themselves from legal charges, many border-people chose the first option. I, therefore, suggest that solidarity should be read through the prism of ethics. Building upon Levinas’ and Derrida’s ethics, I illustrate why face-to-face encounters make a difference and why response-ability requires impossible decisions.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 1-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2017786
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Author-Name: Nicolás Pineda-Pablos
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolás
Author-X-Name-Last: Pineda-Pablos
Author-Name: Antonio Cañez-Cota
Author-X-Name-First: Antonio
Author-X-Name-Last: Cañez-Cota
Author-Name: Paul Ganster
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ganster
Title: A General Perspective on the Book Border Water by Steve Mumme
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 153-154
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2255194
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Author-Name: Jopi Nyman
Author-X-Name-First: Jopi
Author-X-Name-Last: Nyman
Title: Kapka Kassabova and Ben Judah: Writing Borders and Borderscapes in Contemporary Europe
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This article addresses the role of border and borderscapes in two contemporary texts by writers based in Britain, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe [Kassabova, Kapka. 2017. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe. London: Granta] and Ben Judah’s This Is London: Life and Death in the World City [Judah, Ben. 2016. This is London: Life and Death in the World City. London: Picador]. Reading these texts as narratives of border in the context of contemporary discourses on Europe and Brexit, the article shows how the texts challenge the general bordering tendency to represent Europe and Europeans as Britain’s Others, marked by difference and ethnic, cultural, and geopolitical borders. Examining the works in the context of the borderscape concept, the article shows how the texts’ border-crossings challenge such binary thinking and offer ways to locate alternatives to simplistic versions of national identity. The article shows a transforming discourse of borders that underlines their porosity and points to the emergence of new identities as the result of border-crossings. The borderscapes examined in the article (Bulgaria’s southern border and London) reveal diverse belongings and becomings in historical and contemporary contexts that generate new identities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 93-110
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2060281
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Author-Name: Gabriela Pinillos
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinillos
Title: The Cracks of Legality and Documentation During Residence in the United States Before Deportation to Mexico
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The aim of the article is to analyze the relationship between the processes of deportation and the search for identity documents that the people interviewed in Tijuana carried out during their residence in the United States. Through the biographical method and with in-depth interviews, the main findings show that there are diverse and complex paths that migrants follow towards documentation or non-documentation in the United States that impact the forms of permanence and belonging in the different stages of life, the construction of social capital and affective and family networks, which after deportation will become fundamental factors of the conditions of reincorporation and the relationship with the State of the country of origin, which is manifested, mainly, through the control and surveillance over their bodies. All of this calls into question the hegemonic notion of political citizenship.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 75-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2060280
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Author-Name: Mary J. N. Okolie
Author-X-Name-First: Mary J. N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Okolie
Title: Adichie’s Americanah, Transnational Border and the Prospects for Identity Reformation
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The re-shaping of borders, triggered by globalization and many other trans-border historical events such as the fall of the Soviet Union, increase in connective technology, cyberspace interaction and global health challenges informed the growing multidisciplinary scholarship on borders that brought about the reassessment of the notion of border as more than physical demarcation. In the literary discipline, for instance, the re-imagining of border is called border poetics. Border poetics involves a critical analysis of the processes of bordering at the topographical, epistemological, symbolic, textual and temporal planes. It examines identity negotiation at the intersection of socially defined territories and foregrounds movements within and across territories in (and of) the literary text. Using the theoretical framework of border poetics, therefore, I examine Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah as a transnational and a border narrative. By tracing the trajectory of racial border crossing, dwelling, and return by the migrant characters, I argue that Americanah involves multiple forms of bordering and border crossing. I also contend that racism is a barrier, similar to the actual border, that both separates and calls the migrant into constant mutation and negotiation of spaces.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 59-73
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2060279
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Author-Name: Liliana Suárez-Navaz
Author-X-Name-First: Liliana
Author-X-Name-Last: Suárez-Navaz
Author-Name: Iker Suárez
Author-X-Name-First: Iker
Author-X-Name-Last: Suárez
Title: Silencing mestizaje at the Euro-African Border. Anti-Racist Feminist Perspectives on Cross-Border Lives
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Dramatically marked by today’s European border regime with Africa and a geohistorical oppositional dynamic between Islam and the West, the enclave of Melilla also stands out in Spain for its ethnic, religious and racial diversity. Based on long term ethnographic work, we explore the lived experiences and discourses of people calling themselves mestizas, people of mixed ethnoreligious backgrounds. Delving into the tension of being invisible in discourse and public policies, yet certainly present in the city, their condition is experienced as a relational affective field of care rooted in everyday practices. These practices are silenced by both a rhetorical emphasis on intercultural convivencia and the local and global, symbolic and material bordering of the city. We suggest that the visibilization of the transcultural practices derived from mestizaje sets a perfect ethnographic space to explore current challenges around borders, post-colonial feminist thinking and global mobility.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 37-57
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2031254
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Author-Name: Ana Carina S. Franco
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Carina S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Franco
Title: Are Borderlands More Violent? A Spatial Analysis of Border Dis (Orders) in North and West Africa
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 149-151
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2249929
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Author-Name: Thomas Longoria
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Longoria
Author-Name: John Milford
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Milford
Title: Explaining Borderlands Local Government Administrators’ Perceived Responsibility to Aid Asylum-Seeking Migrants
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In the first eight months of 2019, 33,084 unaccompanied children and 205,290 family unit asylum-seeking migrants were apprehended and released into South Texas border cities. The migrant crisis is a case of “high profile” policy making for local government officials who must balance values of political neutrality and policy responsiveness in order to respond to this “crisis.” This study presents data from a survey of 61 local government officials in Texas border cities and interviews with six senior local government administrators. This survey finds that officials who perceive fewer negative policy impacts associated with asylum-seeking migrants and acknowledge tradeoffs between human and national security are more likely to express a responsibility to act and provide humanitarian aid despite political polarization on the issue at the federal, state, and local government levels.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 17-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.2017789
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Author-Name: Roluahpuia
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Title: Border Nation: Indigenous Peoples, State, and the Border in Indo-Myanmar Borderlands
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Border studies in general and the historiography of nation-making process in South Asia with its exclusive focus on Partition Studies have overlooked indigenous people voice and experience. This also implies that certain border regions received far more emphasis whereas certain regions are accorded a marginal status. In this paper, we situate indigenous people’s experience of border-making in Indo-Myanmar borderlands. In doing so, we note that borderlands are not homogenous spaces, with the experience and functions of the border being interpreted differently by various social actors. Taking indigenous Mizos of the Indo-Myanmar borderland as a case study, the paper examines how indigenous communities’ understanding of their history, memory, place, politics, and nationhood are entangled with the border. Using a multiperspectival study of borders, we take an approach that considers the Indo-Myanmar border “beyond the line” by highlighting the border’s dynamism and exploring alternative social and political imaginaries that inform lives in the borderland.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 131-148
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2076250
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Author-Name: Kathleen Staudt
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Staudt
Title: Border Witness: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 155-156
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2255195
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Author-Name: Hara Stratoudaki
Author-X-Name-First: Hara
Author-X-Name-Last: Stratoudaki
Title: At the Gates: Borders, National Identity, and Social Media During the “Evros Incident”
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Understanding borders as powerful markers signifying state and nation, this paper seeks to uncover their actual meaning(s) for national identity held by ordinary citizens, as expressed on social media. As a case study, we focus on the “Evros incident,” when some thousands of refugees were attempting to cross the Turkish-Greek border, supported by the Turkish government. Based on Twitter data we propose a methodology to uncover the social and political ground upon which national identity is discussed during critical events, as well as the contents of national identity evidenced in our corpus. Four main topics were found, focusing on popular geopolitics, the borders, the presentation of refugees as “invaders,” and the portrait of “the enemy within.” The finding that Greek national identity is divided, while so far extensively discussed theoretically was not yet empirically documented. Our research not only documents the division, but also exemplifies its contents.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 111-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2066012
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Author-Name: Claudia Veronica Donoso
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia Veronica
Author-X-Name-Last: Donoso
Title: Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical Analysis
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 157-159
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2261452
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Author-Name: Eunice D. Vargas-Valle
Author-X-Name-First: Eunice D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vargas-Valle
Author-Name: Jennifer Elyse Glick
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Elyse
Author-X-Name-Last: Glick
Author-Name: Pedro P. Orraca-Romano
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Orraca-Romano
Title: US Citizenship for our Mexican Children! US-born Children of Non-Migrant Mothers in Northern Mexico
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We analyze the presence of non-migrant US-born children aged 0–4 in the northern states of Mexico and associated factors by parental nativity. Based on the 2020 Mexican Census, we describe the location, population size, and sociodemographic profiles of these children. We also estimate regression models to examine factors associated with children’s US nativity. We found that US births to non-migrant mothers have become a more prevalent source of US-born children than return migration in recent years. Non-migrant US-born children slightly declined from 2010 to 2020 and continued to be concentrated in northern states, particularly in the border municipalities. Multivariate regression models reveal that, among children of Mexico-born parents, being non-migrant US-born was associated with higher levels of parental schooling, socioeconomic status, or cross-border employment. Births in the U.S. are more common among Mexican middle-upper status families suggesting a selection process that may contribute to social reproduction by increasing their children’s future socioeconomic opportunities relative to Mexico-born children. However, among those with US-born parents, US birth does not vary by socioeconomic status showing those with easier access to the United States and transnational social capital do not need additional resources to secure US citizenship.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 161-181
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2076253
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Author-Name: María I. Morales-Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: María I.
Author-X-Name-Last: Morales-Sánchez
Title: Applying Anzalduan Frameworks to Understand Transnational Youth Identities: Bridging Culture, Language, and Schooling at the US/Mexico Border
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 379-380
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2289125
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Author-Name: Majid Labbaf Khaneiki
Author-X-Name-First: Majid
Author-X-Name-Last: Labbaf Khaneiki
Author-Name: Abdullah Saif Al-Ghafri
Author-X-Name-First: Abdullah
Author-X-Name-Last: Saif Al-Ghafri
Title: Hydro-Political Borders and Division of Space in the Sasanian Domain
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This article argues that the Sasanian government tried to reshape the hydrological order of water resources by damming rivers, digging canals and building aqueducts according to their conception of justice. Although all Iranian dynasties more or less replenished their budget with agricultural revenues, it was the Sasanian government that for the first time exalted irrigated cultivation as the cornerstone of their political economy. The hydraulic mission of the Sasanian polity was to keep a balance between water resources and workforce in their agricultural units. This mission pursued two schemes; first all water resources were reorganized through investing in a considerable number of hydraulic structures, second the agricultural working class was kept confined to the area irrigated and affected by the same supplied water, the area that is called hydro-political territory in this study. Hydro-political borders were the product of a mesh of interactions between ideology, political power, ecology and economy, which impeded social mobility and stifled different aspects of socio-economic change in Iran’s agrarian communities. This article concludes that today’s Iran has inherited the same political tradition that gives rise to hydro-political borders by reorganizing water resources based on a geopolitical disparity between different regions and the leaders’ institutional priorities.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 307-327
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2104342
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Author-Name: Chiara Denaro
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Denaro
Author-Name: Paolo Boccagni
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Boccagni
Title: Migration, Borders and “De-bordering” in Pandemic Times: Voices as Interlocution from Quarantine Ships in Italy
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The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected the configuration of border regimes worldwide, resulting in further selective restrictions to individual cross border mobilities. The Mediterranean space, where sea-crossings have been a structural part of migration for over two decades, has been targeted by multidimensional and transversal re-bordering policies: from externalization to search and rescue, from asylum to detention. The “unsafe harbour strategy” and the resulting implementation of offshore isolation, de facto detention, on quarantine ships were key components of these re-bordering policies. These strategies have prevented a number of potential refugees from accessing asylum, thereby reinforcing the so-called hotspot approach. Combining traditional qualitative research methods with digital ethnographic research on “quarantine ships” in Italy, this paper explores migrants' reactions and responses to border enforcement via offshore isolation. By focusing on the voices emerging from quarantine ships, and on the subsequent interlocution between different actors and stakeholders, we highlight the emergence of various forms, tools and strategies of debordering. These are the outcome of the ongoing interaction between confined migrants, civil society stakeholders and the “onshore” world. We eventually discuss the implications of these interlocutions for research on the interplay between bordering and de-bordering in migration management and control.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 351-376
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2108110
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Author-Name: Xuefeng Hou
Author-X-Name-First: Xuefeng
Author-X-Name-Last: Hou
Author-Name: Shanshan Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Shanshan
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Wei Tao
Author-X-Name-First: Wei
Author-X-Name-Last: Tao
Author-Name: Jianzao Ren
Author-X-Name-First: Jianzao
Author-X-Name-Last: Ren
Title: Inward Border: The Multiscalar Production of Borders Amid the COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control on China’s Southwest Border
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Border studies conducted so far have always focused on areas close to or outside the border of a country and rarely on the dynamic process of its inward border. The inward border represents the construction or deconstruction of a country’s internal borders by different agents at different scales. As the city with the highest population mobility on China’s southeast border, Ruili was considered for analyzing China’s inward border amid its border epidemic containment. The analysis revealed that the production of Ruili’s inward border demonstrated distinct multiscalar characteristics. First, an isolated zone was formed owing to the enhanced materialization of Ruili’s border and the interruption in Ruili’s normal contact with the outside world; a contact zone was also created owing to the support provided by the central government to Ruili. Second, border residents’ participation broke the dominance of border authorities in border control. Therefore, Ruili’s border became more resilient with the stable coexistence of isolation and contact.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 265-279
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2101141
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Author-Name: Antonella Patteri
Author-X-Name-First: Antonella
Author-X-Name-Last: Patteri
Title: Art of Dis-bordering: The Politics of Migration Murals in Europe
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This article engages with art, bordering, and migration, arguing that artistic interventions present great potential for disrupting narratives about migrants’ agency and life. This process of disconnecting migrants’ identity from their univocal representation as a product of borders is articulated in the text by paying attention to art on public display as dis-bordering. By examining public expressions of resistance to borders in the form of mural paintings, it is argued that these artistic interruptions can implicate us in the process of rethinking different aspects of migration to Europe. In the concluding section, the article considers the political messages of the murals of my hometown, Orgosolo, a small museum-village in Sardinia. The internationalism and activism of mural art in the town will be explored by considering murals that deal with migrants’ journeys and identity. Overall, the article seeks to encourage self-reflection about issues of migration and borders, re-imagining and contesting bordering through art.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 329-349
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2108107
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Author-Name: José Javier Olivas Osuna
Author-X-Name-First: José Javier Olivas
Author-X-Name-Last: Osuna
Title: Populism and Borders: Tools for Constructing “The People” and Legitimizing Exclusion
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This article argues theoretically and illustrates empirically that the “border” and “populism” are mutually constitutive concepts and should be considered as epistemic frameworks to understand each other. It compares quantitatively and qualitatively the electoral manifestos of four radical right parties —Vox, RN, UKIP, and Brexit Party—, and shows that borders are basic factors in the process of decontestation of “the people” and construction of exclusion-inclusion narratives. Likewise, this analysis exemplifies how (re)bordering claims are usually justified and articulated via populist discursive elements such as antagonism, morality, idealization of society, popular sovereignty and personalistic leadership. This article demonstrates that the border can become a method to study populism and vice versa and that cross-fertilization between the borders and populism literatures is desirable. Further research is needed to understand whether populists’ selective instrumentalization of borders and equivalential logic leads to a non-binary hierarchical “othering” and the emergence of a populist “meta-us”.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 203-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2085140
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Author-Name: Angelos Evangelou
Author-X-Name-First: Angelos
Author-X-Name-Last: Evangelou
Title: Walled Life: Concrete, Cinema, Art
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 385-386
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2289130
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Author-Name: Andrea Cortés Saavedra
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Cortés Saavedra
Title: Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 377-378
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2261487
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Author-Name: Muhammad Asfihan Nur Arifin
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Asfihan Nur
Author-X-Name-Last: Arifin
Author-Name: Heru Purboyo Hidayat Putro
Author-X-Name-First: Heru Purboyo Hidayat
Author-X-Name-Last: Putro
Author-Name: Tommy Firman
Author-X-Name-First: Tommy
Author-X-Name-Last: Firman
Title: Territorial Politics in Cross-Border Local Development Strategies in the Krayan – Ba’Kelalan Region at the Indonesia – Malaysia Border
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Dynamics of uncertainty and complexity shape cross-border local development. The ethnic proximity of communities in the highlands of Kalimantan creates fluid and cross-border cultural empathy in socio-cultural and economic interactions without a formal framework of cross-border cooperation. Indonesian border development policies have shifted socio-cultural relations, triggering socio-economic inequalities and conflicts of interest that impact cross-border activities. This study uses Constructivist Grounded Theory to analyze how these issues play out in the Indonesian-Malaysian border region. The study shows the management of socio-cultural relationships and networks, capital accumulation, and its role in accommodating local interests. In the case study, these efforts lead to sustainable regional development by promoting economic equality and ensuring cross-border interactions and local sovereignty in a region with different jurisdictions and limited resources and capacities. Thus, this study provides empirical evidence of how local development strategies transform into territorial politics in response to the dynamics of cross-border issues.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 281-305
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2104341
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Author-Name: Michael Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Sullivan
Title: The Border Crossed Us: Enhancing Indigenous International Mobility Rights
Abstract:
In North America, a major impediment to Indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights to free movement involves the reticence of the Canadian government on the U.S.-Canada border, and the U.S. government on the U.S.-Mexico border, to allow Indigenous people the right to travel to live and work on both sides of a frontier imposed by settler states. In this article, I argue for enhanced mobility rights for all members of Indigenous polities in North America across the borders that divide their ancestral homelands, with the option to acquire citizenship in each country that has jurisdiction over their nation’s territory. This policy intervention would facilitate interaction, cultural exchange, and trade across militarized frontiers. Enhanced mobility rights across settler state borders for Indigenous peoples would serve as a form of rectification for past treatment that coercively constituted the identities of the affected tribes, without forcing them to accept another settler state’s sovereignty claims.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 247-264
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2101140
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Author-Name: Birgit Eriksson
Author-X-Name-First: Birgit
Author-X-Name-Last: Eriksson
Author-Name: Tina Louise Hove Sørensen
Author-X-Name-First: Tina Louise Hove
Author-X-Name-Last: Sørensen
Title: When Borders Matter: Crafting Borders in a Participatory Artistic Project at Trapholt Museum
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In 2020, 778 embroiderers co-created a textile artwork at the Danish museum Trapholt. Textile artist Iben Høj developed the artistic design, and citizens contributed 713 embroideries, which Høj assembled in a huge mobile, exhibited at Trapholt 2020–21. The project, Stitches Beyond Borders, was part of a celebration of the cession of North Schleswig from Germany to Denmark in 1920. However, the project addressed not only the centenary but also invited the participants to reflect on other borders and boundaries. This combination—of a national celebration and an open theme of borders and boundaries—attracted our interest. For how would Stitches Beyond Borders combine a contested topic like borders with a national celebration? How would diverse and potentially antagonistic understandings of borders interact in the participatory process and product? Based on an analysis of diverse and rich empirical material, we relate these questions to the controversial socio-political bordering practices in Denmark and theories of borders, participation, and craft. We analyze a borderscape of competing meanings and conclude that although Stitches Beyond Borders was a highly successful participatory, artistic craft project, it only partly fulfilled its unique potential to address contemporary bordering practices and create alternative imaginaries, subjectivities and agencies..
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 227-246
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2101138
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Author-Name: Shubhanginee Singh
Author-X-Name-First: Shubhanginee
Author-X-Name-Last: Singh
Title: Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 381-383
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2289126
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Author-Name: Søren Mosgaard Andreasen
Author-X-Name-First: Søren Mosgaard
Author-X-Name-Last: Andreasen
Title: Making Enemies: War(b)ordering in Norwegian Extreme Right Discourse
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This article examines discursive practices of (b)ordering in outputs circulated by a formerly state-funded, extreme-right civil society organization, the Human Rights Service (HRS). Focusing on how an antagonistic relational structure is systematically encouraged between “non-Western,” minoritized populations and Norwegian majorities, I assess the fundamental components of a semiotics of war. The study develops the concept of war(b)ordering to describe how HRS systematically invites Norwegian majorities to perceive minoritized populations as collective enemies through three discursive frames: (a) citizen-soldier subjectivity, (b) a narrative of secret invasion, and (c) visual differential representation. Through a description of these frames underlying HRS’s representations, the article argues that the Norwegian state’s funding and mandating of this organization as an expert actor that is authorized to provide the public with knowledge about immigration and integration has conflicted with its human rights obligation to prevent racial discrimination.
Journal: Journal of Borderlands Studies
Pages: 183-202
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2085138
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