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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,…
Cross-border vocational training & study during the pandemic
Cross-border dual vocational training and university courses are a fact of life in the French-German border regions. During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, apprentices and students on such European courses were faced with huge challenges. With the borders closed, they were cut off from the partner country and as a result cross-border…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: The resilience of cross-border cooperation in the German-Polish borderland within a European perspective
The Covid-19 pandemic and the related border restrictions have had numerous social, economic, and political consequences for border regions. The impact in the German-Polish border region is analysed in this UniGR-CBS Working Paper.
In this paper, Elżbieta Opiłowska shows how the communication about the pandemic as well as the reactions and (new) strategies of…
Lecture – Geopolitics of the European Union: Transformation of EU’s External Borders in the Context of Changing Global Order
The ongoing changes in the structure of the global order have resulted, especially recently, in border processes in Europe taking place in a new international environment. Surprisingly the war in Ukraine left the borders open for the refugees in the region but the conflict, at the same time, revised dominant approaches to the border dynamics in international…