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In the dominant neoliberal context, the question of decolonization - in its material sense - often remains peripheral to anti-racist politics. However, as radical Black feminist movements remind, the question of decolonization is central... more
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      Border StudiesRefugee StudiesBlack feminismBlack Feminist Theory/Thought
MIGRATION – EIN UMKÄMPFTES MENSCHENRECHT Migration gab es schon immer, sie ist die „Mutter aller Gesellschaften“. Die Mobilität von Menschen, auch über Landesund Seegrenzen und sogar über Kontinente hinweg, ist so alt wie die Menschheit... more
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      Border StudiesMigration StudiesEuropean borders
In March 2018, Frontex, through Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri, and the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, through Inspector General Fredolin Lecari, signed a cooperation plan for a... more
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      SecurityPoliceEuropean UnionBorders and Frontiers
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesAfrican StudiesEuropean Studies
This article deals with the Finnish-Russian border in light of the European external border control policy and its impact on immigration. The 1985 Schengen agreement removed internal European border controls and external border protection... more
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      Migration StudiesRussiaFinlandSecuritisation
The following thesis will provide a thorough description of the militarization of Greek borders. It will be argued how the process of militarization and its accompanying military ideology has led to the normalization of the use of force,... more
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      European Immigration and Asylum LawMilitarism and militarizationBordersBorders and Frontiers
This thesis deals with the EU external border control and its impact on migration policies. It investigates the securitisation of immigration in Finland focusing on Finnish-Russian external border management.
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      MigrationCopenhagen School/SecuritizationBorder SecurityEuropean borders
My analysis of the EU's Schengen System after the latest changes making it easier to impose internal border controls. Written for SIEPS (Swedish Institute fo European Policy Studies)
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      Border CrossingMigration StudiesEuropean bordersEU borders
¿De qué otra manera podemos entender la disposición del migrante post-colonial en la metrópoli europea de hoy si no a través del abandono, la austeridad, el cautiverio y encarcelamiento de refugiadxs en sus fronteras? ¿En el marco de... more
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      ReparationsCapitalismoEuropean bordersRacial capitalism
This article conceptualises citizenship in Gramscian terms, as a contested element of struggles for hegemony within civil society. Based on ethnographic snapshots from Cyprus, it is shown how the agency of migrants from the nearby region... more
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      MarxismMiddle East StudiesRefugee StudiesCyprus Studies
History Honours Thesis, defended in April, 2020. Graded at 97%, A+.
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      European HistoryRomanticismBorder StudiesIdentity (Culture)
Using a theoretical framework conceptualising mobility regimes, solidarity, as well as scales and "sanctuary/solidarity cities", this article examines notions of locally scaled solidarity by looking at Hamburg and Athens. We undertake... more
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      Mobility/MobilitiesMigrationMigration StudiesUrban citizenship
This paper discusses uses and misuses of EU border management models and strategies in the framework of crisis response interventions in the Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It focuses especially on Libya and Ukraine, cases which... more
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      Human GeographyLawBorder StudiesGeopolitics
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between January 2012 and June 2013 in eight civil registry offices in Brussels, this article explores how assumptions about intimacy intersect with the moral standards of bureaucrats evaluating... more
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      LoveMoralityEuropean bordersstreet level bureaucracy
Stella Ghervas, "‘L'Europe élargie’ d'après 1989: comment se réorienter dans la pensée?" (Enlarged Europe’ after 1989: What Does it Mean to Reorient Our Thinking?), Questions Internationales, 68 (2014): 94-101. Abstract "Les... more
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryDiplomatic HistoryGeography
In this article I introduce a variety of social, political and economic collectivities to analyze ways in which their interactions are influenced by borders as the territorial delimitations of legal authority, or jurisdictions. The limits... more
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      Indian studiesJurisdictionAnthropology of BordersTerritoriality
On April, 17 th 2019 the EU parliament decided to expand the resources of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, the so called Frontex, up to 10.000 permanent corps until 2027. Together with this increase in human resources, they... more
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      Human RightsImmigrationInternational Human Rights LawEuropean Union
""This paper aims to draw the attention on what is happening along Croatian border areas in terms of everyday life and enquire into the roles and meanings assigned to borders. From July 1st, 2013, Croatia became the 28th Member State of... more
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      Border StudiesNational IdentityBorder CrossingEthnic Identity
Rapid changes associated with globalization have led to the violent policing of territorial borders across the Global North. In Europe, the ongoing project of constructing a unified identity for an expanding European Union (EU) has... more
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      MigrationBorders and BorderlandsEuropean borders
The interaction of multiple actors if European Border and Coast Guard Operations leads to a nexus of responsibilities, both individual and collective, positive and negative, direct or indirect, that is hard to disentangle. The connections... more
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      Border StudiesRefugee StudiesInternational organizationsAsylum Law
This article is about changing regional understandings in Europe and how those changed understandings reflect and shape contemporary geopolitical arrangements in the context of the eastward enlargement of the EU. It is argued in the... more
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      Critical GeopoliticsGeopoliticsIdentity politicsVáclav Havel
How to write about the many, diverse, politically contested and often highly contradictory meanings of Eastern Europe in a short text? In this article, I approach Eastern Europe from the perspective of the recent (2004) expansion of the... more
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      European integrationCritical GeopoliticsBorder StudiesEuropean Politics
In March 2018, Frontex, through Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri, and the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, through Inspector General Fredolin Lecari, signed a cooperation plan for a... more
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      European UnionBorder Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and SecurityEuropean bordersFRONTEX
In the past few years thousands of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East fleeing civil wars or in search of a better life had adventured to the EU. This has lead to the fortification of the communities‟ external borders and growing... more
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      Refugee StudiesMigration StudiesEuropean identitySocial Constructionism/ Constructivism
In _Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures_ ed. by Tania Gentic and Francisco LaRubia Prado (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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      Critical TheoryEuropean HistoryIntellectual HistoryCultural Studies
Borders not only determine where the territories start and end; but also determine the insiders and the outsiders while regulating entrances and exits. Last century was of great importance in transformation of security and border issues.... more
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      Border StudiesSecuritizationBorders and FrontiersBorder Managment, Migration and Border Management, Migration and Security
This study focuses on the intricacies of Turkey's prospective membership in the European Union. It begins with a chronology of EU-Turkey relations and an account of the debate on the future of the European Union, which relates to Turkey's... more
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      European StudiesPolitical ScienceEuropean Foreign PolicyEuropean Union
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      Border StudiesFrontier StudiesBorders and FrontiersEuropean borders
Hostile Terrain 94. Exhibition in the former police prison Klapperfeld 11.09. – 23.10.2021 Website: https://hostileterrain94.klapperfeld.de/en/ Hostile Terrain 94 is a global pop-up Exhibition about America’s Humanitarian Crisis at... more
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      Border StudiesAfghanistanMuseum AnthropologyForced Migration
Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in the light of European integration processes and an on-going tightening of Europe's external borders.... more
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      Border StudiesMultiplicityEuropean borders
RESUMEN del Libro– LA FRONTERA EN EL MUNDO HISPÁNICO Soldados, misioneros, aventureros, delincuentes, burócratas, esclavos, y gente común –mujeres, hombres y niños, indígenas, europeos y africanos– fueron algunos de los arietes que... more
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      European StudiesEarly Modern HistoryBorder StudiesEarly Modern Europe
This article explores the emergence of the crime of migrant smuggling and its legitimising narratives as tools of global migration management. We examine the ways in which the language of 'migrant smuggling' was introduced into and then... more
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      Conspiracy TheoriesEuropean bordersGlobal MigrationSmuggling of Migrants
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      European Immigration and Asylum LawEuropean Union LawItalian Immigration and Asylum LawEuropean borders
Since the 1960s, African states have sought ways to overcome the challenges of economic and political integration through the establishment and promotion of regional and sub-regional organizations across the continent. The different... more
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      African StudiesEuropean StudiesInternational RelationsDevelopment Studies
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      European bordersBorder controlMigrants Agency
This paper discusses uses and misuses of EU border management models and strategies in the framework of crisis response interventions in the Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It focuses especially on Libya and Ukraine, cases which... more
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      Border StudiesCrisis ManagementEuropean Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI)Ukraine
Undoubtedly, the free movement of persons is one of the biggest achievements of the United Europe project already foreseen by the founding fathers of the European Community. The Treaty of Rome in addition to creating a common market,... more
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      European UnionBorders and FrontiersBerlin WallEuropean borders
Former Yugoslavia was located on a crossroads of borders, which are characterized by a feeling of melancholy, that is a condition typical of situations where we recognize something as problematical but are neither able to solve it nor to... more
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      GeographyCartographyInternational RelationsBorder Studies
Research into borders and frontiers in the context of European integration has evolved, leading to the question of the shape of the external borders of the EU and their organization in relation to the external surroundings. The approach... more
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      Political ScienceBorder PolicyEuropean UnionEuropean borders
Despite the bilateral commitment to engage in 'regular dialogue on issues related to mobility, migration and asylum', EU incentives have failed in leveraging Algeria to secure cooperation notwithstanding seemingly converging interests.... more
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      DemographyPolitical ScienceMigrationHistorical Institutionalism
Despite the bilateral commitment to engage in ‘regular dialogue on issues related to mobility, migration and asylum’, EU incentives have failed in leveraging Algeria to secure cooperation notwithstanding seemingly converging interests.... more
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      MigrationHistorical InstitutionalismEuropean Union external relationsAlgeria
collection no. 001 • Intrastructural Times Roadsides Borderlands are often presented as political landscapes characterized by fixed infrastructures that help to regulate who comes in or out of a country. In this brief essay, however, we... more
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      Border StudiesGeorgiaBorderland StudiesHuman-Nonhuman Assemblages
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      Migrations as Human MobilitiesEuropean bordersBorder control
Organisé par Stella Ghervas (Université de Genève) et François Rosset (Université de Lausanne) Thématique du Colloque International "Lieux d'Europe": "Difficile à cerner dans son identité géographique, l'Europe exprime son... more
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryCultural HistoryCultural Studies
As one of the foremost European writers and intellectuals of our time, Claudio Magris has consistently kept Europe at the center of his work. In addition to numerous volumes of literary criticism spanning over four decades, Italian... more
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      Comparative LiteratureHumanitiesEuropean integrationEuropean identity
Since the 1960s, African states have sought ways to overcome the challenges of economic and political integration through the establishment and promotion of regional and subregional organizations across the continent. The different... more
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      European HistoryAfrican StudiesEuropean StudiesDevelopment Studies
This report will analyse the example of the Polish-German border region in comparison to some other European borders. The co-operation between divided cities in this border region during the COVID-19 time has shown that sometimes a crisis... more
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      European StudiesBorder RegionsEuropean borders
Conference at Stanford University The Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Prof. Oscar Jané Checa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) 2011, March 23rd Thinking and (de)constructing boundaries: identity and resilience... more
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      Border StudiesResilienceIdentity (Culture)Language and Identity
In the early days of March I was watching from a distance the situation developing in Greece. A distance that was geographic, myself being away from the country, but also a distance that was emotional, resulting in a sort of incapacity to... more
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      Media StudiesRefugee StudiesEuropean UnionTurkish Greek Relations