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Cross-border Work in Europe: Regional Practices and Realities
There are two million cross-border workers in Europe, most of them working in Switzerland and Luxembourg. In spite of the growing significance of this phenomenon, no European research on cross-border working had yet been formally established. LISER, the UniGR-Center for Border Studies and its partners organised the "Cross-border Work in Europe" conference, which took place on 5 and 6 May 2022…
Conférence – The Tao of Mestizaje : Multiple Borders, Multiple Bridges
The talk will describe the author's 70 plus years of living and writing plays on, about, and through different borders. Carlos Morton has lived on the border between Mexico and the United States since 1981, teaching at universities in Texas, California and Mexico. In the lecture, the central theme is the concept of Mestizaje and the clash of different cultures and…
New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper: Training and the cross-border labour market
The bilingual Policy Paper on the cross-border labour market in the Greater Region shows how measures in the field of training can regulate interregional imbalances.
The UniGR-CBS Policy Paper has been realized in collaboration with the Fondation IDEA asbl.
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Lecture – “Learning to Speak English”: Displays and Displaces of Vulnerability in Contemporary Migrant Literature
This talk will explore the role of linguistic borders and border crossings in self-expression and in social and communal identity as witnessed in recent performed and written migrant literature. The focus will be on US-based writers.
In the lecture, Ana Elisa Gomez Laris will address multilingual works and spaces and underline the importance of language usage…
Cross-Border Work in Europe: Regional Practices and Realities
International conference, 5-6 May 2022
Two million cross-border commuters work in Europe, most of them in Switzerland and Luxembourg. Despite the growing importance of the phenomenon, no European research on cross-border workers has been established yet. LISER, the UniGR Center for Border Studies and other partners aim to fill this gap with the conference "Cross-Border Work in Europe"…
Esch2022 – Regards sur un territoire transfrontalier en mouvement
In collaboration with the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, this event will bring together researchers and the general public on the subject of the evolution of landscapes and territories, as well as on the planning issues that arise from it.
The cross-border area of the Alzette has been sustainably marked by phases of industrialization and deindustrialization.…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Border regions in times of the Covid 19 pandemic
Restrictions of freedom and border controls took center stage two years ago, sharply limiting cross-border everyday life.
Based on a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles of the Saarbrücker Zeitung in spring 2020, the new UniGR-CBS Working Paper traces central discussions with a focus on the cross-border area of the Greater Region. …
Lecture – Bridging Fluid Borders. Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland
Riverine borders are not “natural” borders dividing up space – certainly not for the people who have called these fluid borderlands their home for years, decades, or even centuries. One example is the Oyapock River, the official border between Brazil and France, which is a one-way street.
In the lecture, Fabio Santos goes into ethnographic details of the…