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New publication: Covid-19 and the European idea
In the edited book "Pandemic Virus – National Action", the border closures in Europe are reflected three years after the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic. The authors show from different disciplinary angles how the border closures were experienced and how they affected the European idea. The book integrates many contributions authored by UniGR-CBS members.
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The UniGR-CBS at the 2023 World Conference on Border Studies
Over 250 border scholars from around the world met in Eilat, Israel, from February 13-18, 2023. There, the third World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) took place on the Eilat Campus of Ben-Gurion University in the tri-border region of Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. The five-day conference, “Borders, Edges, and Interfaces. Pluralities and Scales” included numerous panels…
Lecture – Transitions and people’s resilience in European borderlands
Borderlands are specific environments where people and communities have historically had to find creative ways of coping within state structures and their transitions. Considering recent trends in Europe to move away from open borders scenarios towards border securitization and unsolved political conflicts, questions concerning how borderlands cope with transitions…
New UniGR-CBS thematic issue release: on the multivalence of borders
The concept of multivalence represents an analytical approach to borders that focuses on inequalities and their underlying cultural ordering logics. It follows the idea that in borders social valences are inscribed that vary with respect to different people. Multivalence thus seeks to capture a social multivalence of the border, which is the product and producer of…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Weaponizing migration and reinforcing border protection
How has the situation at the Belarus-Lithuania border developed between 2020 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine? In the new UniGR-CBS Working Paper, Jordi Bakker analyze the changes to the dynamics of the Belarus-Lithuania border through a qualitative content analysis of English-language online news articles.
The UniGR-CBS working paper summarizes the…
UniGR is now a full TEIN member
At this year's annual assembly of the Transfrontier Euro-Institute Network (TEIN), the University of the Greater Region (UniGR) with its Interdisciplinary Center of Expertise UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS) was appointed full member of the European network. The UniGR-CBS took this opportunity to talk to the TEIN coordinator, Anne Thevenet, about the work…
Lecture – Externalized within, bordering processes in Ceuta & Melilla
The notion of ‘externalized within’ traces the social transformations that follow from Ceuta and Melilla becoming frontlines of Fortress Europe. Nina Sahraoui mobilise the concept of everyday bordering in order to shed light on the links between externalisation and the micro-level social consequences of this process for the undocumented residents of Moroccan origin…
UniGR-CBS awarded the Interregional Research Award of the Greater Region
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies was awarded the Interregional Research Award of the Greater Region on November 25, 2022. The award honours the exceptional achievements of researchers in cross-border research cooperation.
The UniGR-Centre for Border Studies, which became a permanent interdisciplinary center of expertise of the University of the Greater…