The autors develop a new understanding of borders that evolves around the notions of technoecoogy in relation to Felix Guattari and the idea of feminist transversal politics as proposed by Nira Yuva-Davis. They advocate for a solidarity that extends beyond the human and that encompasses more-than-human liefworlds, too, since people and their mulit-species others are entangled in complex border relations. By pointing to two examples that relate borders, people, other species, geologies, technologies, politics and discourses of (more-than-human) exclusion, the authors foreground these entangled relations and the agential cuts enacted by bordering processes.
In the light of the Schengen Agreement border checks at the EU internal borders have largely been abolished. Thirty years after the signature of this agreement, Europe faces “refugee crisis” (EC 2016). After recent events such as the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, some countries decided to re-establish border controls. What are the impacts of the reintroduction of these border controls from a spatial perspective? To answer this question, the authors propose a synthetic literature review on conceptual tools for analyzing the reintroduction of border controls and link these with a set of empirical findings. The focus is on the Greater Region, a cross-border region where functional flows are important.
