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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…
Conference: Crises: New challenges and perspectives for cross-border labour markets
A number of different crises are causing a pressure on the labour markets of the Greater Region. As well the energy crisis as the demographic and economic crisis have an impact on training and employment, especially in the cross-border context.
Is solidarity among neighbouring regions the solution that enables a win-win situation in the Greater Region? Can new workplaces/work spaces (…
Social border(ing) practices and local everyday perspectives on borders: Bordertextures on Lesbos
More and more fences and walls are being built at the EU's external borders to control migration and border crossings. An emblem of such border practices is the Greek island of Lesbos, which has become a humanitarian operation area since the establishment of the Moria hotspot for refugees. Since then, not only the local infrastructure of the island has been changing…
Lecture – Ukraine at the Borderlands of European Universalism
In the wake of Balkan wars in 1990s the French philosopher of 'borders of Europe', Étienne Balibar, formulated his well-known thesis that these events manifested the limits of European universalism. Varied discursive mechanisms were adopted by of European actors to represent Balkan peoples as undeserving to belong to Europe: violent, barbaric, oriental, premodern,…