Böcker i Border Regions Series-serien

This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience through the prism of borders.

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders.

This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience through the prism of borders.

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent. It examines borders and securitisation of migration and the challenges and opportunities that arise out of reconfigured continental demographics.

Tackling the differences between the ways in which official discourses construct borders and the ways people who live there experience them in their everyday lives, this book uses innovative theoretical approaches and empirical work with young North Caucasian migrants to explore issues of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging.

This book explores the issue of how the return of the border fences and walls as a political tool may be symptomatic of a new era in border studies and international relations. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines problems that include security issues ; the recurrence and/or decline of the wall; wall discourses .

Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range of scales and places.

Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book provides border scholars and researchers as well as policymakers with empirical and theoretical evidence on the de- and re-bordering processes going on in diverse border regions in Europe, both within and outside of the EU.

'Borders' have attracted considerable attention in public and academic debates in light of the impact of globalisation and, in Europe, the end of the divisions of the Cold War era. This book adopts a symbiotic approach to the analysis of borders, drawing on a political-economy perspective.

Discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations. It shows how catrographic, communal and political lines are not only driving countries, but that they are being replicated within, creating new visible and invisible internal frontiers.

September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of a new era of security imperatives for many countries where previously terrorist threats were perceived as distant and overseas rather than arising in the homeland. This book shows how a border can evolve to a heightened level of security and yet continue to function well, sustaining the flow of trade.

This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa. African borders or borderlands can be a source of problems and opportunity.

By presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, the book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges.

This book conflates disciplinary contributions to the inquiry of nation-state border to offer an empirically rich and compelling study on the social stratification and change in the Turkish/Middle Eastern context, drawing back to the late nineteenth century Ottoman Era.

By presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, the book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges.

Illustrated with case studies from Central and Eastern European border areas. This book examines capacities for region-building across national borders in within the context of EU enlargement, synthesizing the various insights provided by local information and suggesting ways forward for the future development of the EU's 'Wider Europe' strategy.