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Guest Lecture – Beyond push and pull: flight and migration as an issue of distribution in the fall of 2015
While Europeans enjoy freedom of movement in the Schengen area and (pre-COVID) can travel to most countries of the world with only a few requirement and often visa-free travel, millions of displaced persons in refugee camps in developing countries eke out their existence. About 40 % of all refugees are housed in camps, in rural areas even around 80 % according to…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Corona-Zeiten, Corona Räume
As a reaction to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, many people all over the world were confronted with a rupture of social and spatial routines. In Germany, the state governments took a leading role trying to contain the further spread of the pandemic by issuing ordinances and regulations. In this context, the way how laws and rules pervade places of everyday life…
Guest Lecture – About Borders. How refugees challenge democratic orders
Although political orders cannot be thought of without defining borders, they have so far rarely been part of political theory-building. Especially in times of limited nation-statehood, they have long provided the framework in which central political concepts such as freedom, equality or even welfare state solidarity have been thought and discussed. They usually…
Call for Papers: Border Languaging: Multilingual Practices on the Border
The work of the border as a productive site of encounter and of the formation of identities and otherness becomes visible through related language use and linguistic performances. In developing a focus on border languaging, we aim to carve out new understandings of (the use of) communicative resources in relation to the border.
Contributing to the growing…
Guest Lecture – Migration or cross-border living? Luxembourgers in German Moselle villages
The relocation of the place of residence to the other side of a national border is a sort of cross-border mobility that has recently become more significant in various (European) border regions. The Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux represents a particularly interesting object of study, since the group of "resident migrants" is extremely complex in its composition and the…
Round table: Les Cahiers de la Grande Région
The IDEA Foundation asbl and the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, in partnership with the members of the Cahiers de la Grande Région initiative, are pleased to invite you to the next round table discussion on the occasion of the release of the third edition of the series Cahiers de la Grande Région on the following theme:
Mismatches,…
New book release: Geographies of borders
Border research has undergone profound changes in the last few decades, which has altered the study of national borders as unchallenged phenomena.
The recently published edited book in the series "Räume - Grenzen - Hybriditäten" (VS Verlag) follows this development and examines the connection between spaces, orders and interdependencies. In 18 contributions,…
New UniGR-CBS release: B/ordering the Anthropocene: Inter- and transdisciplinary Perspectives on Nature-Culture Relations
In the current geological epoch of the Anthropocene, in which humankind is seen as the central driving force for global changes in ecological systems, seemingly secure boundaries between nature and society are on the one hand dissolving and on the other hand being redrawn elsewhere. The boundaries between society and nature, science and politics…