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BorderObs – European Border Region Studies and Borderization
Migration and populism are just a few reasons why there is talk of a return of the border. In the same way, the pandemic has revived borders and shown that borderization also take place in the Schengen area.
With this in mind, the text problematize that European border region studies continue to follow the weakened guiding idea of a Europe without borders. Instead, the text proposes…
New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper: Spatial Development in the Greater Region
The bilingual Policy paper “Action Needs for Spatial Development in the Greater Region from a Research Perspective” summarizes key findings of researchers from the UniGR-Center for Border Studies in five areas relevant to the Greater Region:
Demography and migration Transport Employment and economic development Energy landscapes Cross-border governance…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Distribution spatiale de l’emploi au Luxembourg
The European objective of decarbonisation by the year 2050 requires a supra-regional coordination of transport services.
Analysing the data of the Luxmobil 2017 survey, this Working Paper presents the main outcomes concerning the spatial distributions of employment and modal choices related to commuting of both resident and cross-border workers within the…
Lecture – Dust and Death: Politics of Nature at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The UniGR-CBS Guest Professor Daniela Johannes will give a lecture on "Dust and Death: Politics of Nature at the U.S.-Mexico Border" as part of her research stay at the UniGR-CBS (Saarland University).
Daniela Johannes is Associate Professor and Director of American and Latinx Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania (USA). The focus of her research…
The UniGR-CBS now on LinkedIn
The UniGR-Center for Border Studies is now on LinkedIn.
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Future events around borders, Current publications in Border Studies, Studying across borders in the Master Border Studies, Digital resources in Border Studies for stakeholders, students, and researchers.The LinkedIn page…
Atelier Bordertextures – Animals and Viruses as Border Subjects
The UniGR-CBS working group "Bordertextures" continues the conference series "Atelier Bordertextures" with the public lecture "More-than-human Bordertextures".
The invited speaker, Dr. Larissa Fleischmann, illustrates how animals and viruses can be studied as border subjects using the example of African swine fever. For this concern, she follows the…
7th UniGR-CBS Seminar – Border Literature
The next UniGR-CBS seminar "Border Studies" entitled "Border Literature" is organized by the Université de Lorraine.
The objective of the seminar is to explore the ways in which the border is written and represented in literature. In what way does literary creation constitute a means of access to the ideality of places, to the imaginary of territory, to the…
Two million euros raised for border research
The border closures and increased controls in the course of the pandemic have made clear, especially in border regions, how closely the European Union is already interconnected at its territorial interfaces. Two of these interconnected areas are in the center of this research project that just got an external funding.
The three-year…