In Search Of Europe S Borders

Author : Kees Groenendijk,Elspeth Guild,Paul Minderhoud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004481510

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In Search of Europe's Borders by Kees Groenendijk,Elspeth Guild,Paul Minderhoud Pdf

Borders define territories within which identities and order are described and delineated. The triptych of indentities, borders and orders is central to understanding the nature of sovereignty and the relations between countries. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the European Union. The changing definition and placement of the border is one of the most striking features of the recent transformations of the Union. The definition of what a border is and where it is for persons has moved out of the territory of national sovereignty and has become the preserve in law of the European Community. The enlargement of the European Union towards the countries of Central and Eastern Europe has created new challenges for the concept of borders in the EU. This volume examines the extent of the Community power and the legal meaning of the EU's borders, as well as the ways to control (or not) the movement of persons across borders. It considers the legal texts - EC law on visas, the Regulations on visas, the meaning of borders for persons in Community Law, the Schengen acquis and its incorporation into the EC Treaty (and where appropriate the TEU); national practice and its transformation with the insertion of the private sector's responsibility for the control of borders and judicial control. The point of departure is the perspective of the individual who is seeking to cross these borders.

Author : Kimmo Katajala,Maria Lähteenmäki
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643902573

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Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered by Kimmo Katajala,Maria Lähteenmäki Pdf

This collection of writings explores European borders from the 15th century to the present. The territorial scope ranges from the Arctic Ocean and Scandinavia to Central Europe. In these papers, borders are understood not only as separating lines in the terrain, but also as socially constructed divisions in people's choices, speeches, actions, and memories. Borders are not only drawn: they are imagined, negotiated, and remembered. (Series: Studies on Middle and Eastern Europe / Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropastudien - Vol. 11)

Author : Daniel Trilling
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786632791

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Lights in the Distance by Daniel Trilling Pdf

Immersive, engrossing report on the European refugee crisis A mother puts her children into a refrigerator truck and asks, “What else could I do?” A runaway teenager comes of age on the streets, sleeping in abandoned buildings. A student leaves his war-ravaged country behind because he doesn’t want to kill. Everyone among the thousands of people who come to Europe in search of asylum each year possesses a unique story. But those stories don’t end as they cross into the West. In Lights in the Distance, acclaimed journalist Daniel Trilling draws on years of reporting to build a portrait of the refugee crisis as seen through the eyes of the people who experienced it firsthand. As the European Union has grown, so has a tangled and often violent system designed to filter out unwanted migrants. Visiting camps and hostels, sneaking into detention centers, and delving into his own family’s history of displacement, Trilling weaves together the stories of people he met and followed from country to country. In doing so, he shows that the terms commonly used to define them—“refugee” or “economic migrant,” “legal” or “illegal,” “deserving” or “undeserving”—fall woefully short of capturing the complex realities. The founding story of the EU is that it exists to ensure the horrors of the twentieth century are never repeated. Now, as it comes to terms with the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, its declared values of freedom, tolerance and respect for human rights are being put to the test. Lights in the Distance is a uniquely powerful and illuminating exploration of the nature and human dimensions of the crisis.

Author : Hans Knippenberg,J. Markusse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401058601

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Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, 1800–2000 by Hans Knippenberg,J. Markusse Pdf

During the last two centuries, the political map of Europe has changed considerably. More recently, there are remarkably contrasting tendencies concerning the functions and densities of borders. The borders inside the European Union lost their importance, whereas Central and Eastern Europe saw the birth of a multitude of new state borders. The long-term study of border regions, therefore, is a fascinating subject for geographers, historians, social scientists, and political scientists. The main thesis of this book is that the rise of the modern nation-state reinforced the separating function of state borders by nationalising the people on both sides of it. This process gained strength in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was challenged in the second half of this century by processes of supra-national integration, globalisation and the revolution in communication and transport, as the case studies from different parts of Europe of this book will show. Audience: This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners in geography, history, political sciences, European studies and East-European studies.

Author : Jan Wielgohs (verst.),Arnaud Lechevalier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political institutions and public administration (General)
ISBN : OCLC:1135345513

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Borders and Border Regions in Europe by Jan Wielgohs (verst.),Arnaud Lechevalier Pdf

Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives. Special attention is paid to the history and contemporary dynamics at Polish and German borders. Of particular interest are the creation of Euroregions, mutual perceptions of Poles and Germans at the border, EU Regional Policy, media debates on the extension of the Schengen area. Analysis of cross-border mobility between Abkhazia and Georgia or the impact of Israel's "Security Fence" to Palestine on society complement the focus on Europe with a wider view.

Author : Antonia-Maria Sarantaki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000846256

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Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe by Antonia-Maria Sarantaki Pdf

This book examines the rapidly expanding EU agency’s distinct role in EU border control, showing that Frontex is a prominent border control actor that reshapes the EU borders by promoting a new border control culture. Bringing culture into the analysis of Frontex, this book offers an alternative in-depth understanding of the agency’s function, focusing on the production and diffusion of border control assumptions and practices within a border control community. Based on data drawn from primary research at Frontex and two EU external borders, namely Lampedusa and Evros, this book examines Frontex’s contribution to the emergence of a new border control culture in Europe, replacing the pre-existing Schengen culture. Compared with the existing literature on Frontex, this novel account takes into consideration the evolving nature of borders and border control, discussing three contemporary challenges for the established border control regime: Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and hard security preoccupations, such as the fall-out from the Russian invasion in Ukraine and the weaponisation of migration at the Greek-Turkish land border. Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe will appeal to scholars and students of border management, EU studies, migration, geography, international relations, and security, along with policymakers and practitioners with an interest in EU border control and Frontex.

Author : H. Dijstelbloem,A. Meijer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230299382

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Migration and the New Technological Borders of Europe by H. Dijstelbloem,A. Meijer Pdf

European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.

Author : Katarzyna Stokłosa,Gerhard Besier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317808060

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European Border Regions in Comparison by Katarzyna Stokłosa,Gerhard Besier Pdf

Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics,” narratives and myths. The term “border” has a negative connotation for being a separating line, a warning signal not to cross a line between the allowed and the forbidden. The awareness of both mental and factual borders in manifold spheres of our life has made them a topic of consideration in almost all scholarly disciplines – history, geography, political science and many others. This book primarily incorporates an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political science scholars from a diverse range of European universities analyze historical as well as contemporary perceptions and perspectives concerning border regions – inside the EU, between EU and non-EU European countries, and between European and non-European countries.

Author : Dr Dorte Jagetic Andersen,Dr Marie Sandberg,Dr Martin Klatt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409483359

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The Border Multiple by Dr Dorte Jagetic Andersen,Dr Marie Sandberg,Dr Martin Klatt Pdf

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. Moreover, the book suggests new ways of investigating the nature of European borders by looking at border practices in the light of the mobility turn, and thus as dynamic, multiple, diverse and best expressed in everyday experiences of people living at and with borders, rather than focusing on static territorial divisions between states and regions at geopolitical level. It provides border scholars and researchers as well as policymakers with new 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.

Author : Grigore Silaşi
Publisher : Ovidiu Laurian SIMINA
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789731251677

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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union by Grigore Silaşi Pdf

Author : Chris Rumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317968122

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Citizens and borderwork in contemporary Europe by Chris Rumford Pdf

The extent to which ordinary people can construct, shift, and dismantle borders is seriously neglected in the existing literature. The book explores the ability of citizens to participate in the making of borders, and the empowerment that can result from this bordering and debordering activity. ‘Borderwork’ is the name given to the ways in which ordinary people can make and unmake borders. Borderwork is no longer only the business of nation-states, it is also the business of citizens (and indeed non-citizens). This study of ‘borderwork’ extends the recent interest in forms of bordering which do not necessarily occur at the state’s external borders. However, the changing nature of borders cannot be reduced to a shift from the edges to the interior of a polity. To date little research has been conducted on the role of ordinary people in envisioning, constructing, maintaining, shifting, and erasing borders; creating borders which facilitate mobility for some while creating barriers to mobility for others; appropriating the political resources which bordering offers; contesting the legitimacy of or undermining the borders imposed by others. This book makes an original contribution to the literature and stands to set the agenda for a new dimension of border studies. This book was published as a special issue of Space and Polity.

Author : James Anderson,Liam O'Dowd,Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0714683485

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New Borders for a Changing Europe by James Anderson,Liam O'Dowd,Thomas M. Wilson Pdf

As Europe's internal and external borders change, states become defensive. This is a study of identity economic integration, governance and communication between states.

Author : Aleksandr Dyukov,Olesya Orlenko
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443835978

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Divided Eastern Europe by Aleksandr Dyukov,Olesya Orlenko Pdf

In 1938, on the eve of what would mark the beginning of the Second World War during the international crisis, Eastern Europe was divided – in every sense of the word. New governments, which were generally regarded as national states, rose from the ashes of the old pre-modern Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. However, civic nations were not formed within them; the titular ethnic groups were far from being the only representing populations in these states. The new states in Eastern Europe were the offspring of wars and revolutions. Their borders were initially determined by the rights of the powerful. New borders divided entire peoples, having created the very foundation for inter-state conflicts as well as the desire to revise the established order in the region. One of the consequences of the Second World War was the revision of Eastern European borders. Still today, historians have yet to agree upon a single assessment of the eastern European events in the 1930s and 1940s. Researchers from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Moldavia, Israel, Germany and the USA have all contributed articles featured in this collection. The book is focused on national border changes in Eastern Europe during the period from 1938 to 1947: population transfer as a result of foreign and domestic political considerations, interethnic relationships and ethnic purges of paramilitary units; the concept of self- perception of people living on frontiers forced to change their national and civil status; and the problems of modern East European borders.

Author : Hans Knippenberg,Jan Markusse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028570922

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Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, 1800-2000 by Hans Knippenberg,Jan Markusse Pdf

Historians and geographers explore the changing nature of the function of political borders in Europe over the past two centuries. Of particular importance is the very different processes and outcomes that have characterized Eastern and Western Europe over time. Eleven papers explore such topics as the politicized borders of Greek Macedonia; borders, ethnicity, and demographic patterns in the Russian Baltic provinces in the late 19th century; a geographical analysis of identity patterns in the Basque region; and the changing impact of boundaries on regional development in Switzerland. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anaïs Faure Atger
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290797777

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The Abolition of Internal Border Checks in an Enlarged Schengen Area: Freedom of movement or a scattered web of security checks? by Anaïs Faure Atger Pdf