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European Borderlands: Living with Barriers and Bridges book cover

1st Edition

European Borderlands Living with Barriers and Bridges

Edited By Elisabeth Boesen, Gregor Schnuer Copyright 2017
211 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared – not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe – but rather they have changed, become more varied and, in a certain sense, mobile, taking on an important role in the everyday... Read more

Introduction: Living in European Borderlands

Elisabeth Boesen

Part I. Border Crossings and Border Politics

1. A Routine-Based Model of Everyday Mobility in Border Regions

Nils Müller

2. Dybbøl 2014 – Constructing Familiarity by Remembrance?

Martin Klatt

3. Cross-Border Urbanism on the German-Polish Border – Between Spatial De-Boundarization and Social (Re-)Frontierization

Jaroslaw Jańczak

Part II. Communities, Relationships and Identities in Borderlands

4. What Makes a Place – Traces of the Border in Rural Villages Affected by Cross-Border Residential Migration

Gregor Schnuer

5. Crossing Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries? Observations on the German and French Workforce in the Spa Town of Baden-Baden, c. 1840–1870

Eva Zimmermann

6. Crossing Borders – Politico-Geographical and Mental Borders in Contemporary German-Language Literature in Belgium

Lesley Penné

7. The Impact of Commuting on Close Relations – Case Study of Estonian Men in Finland

Keiu Telve

Part III. Living Across the Border

8. Residential Cross-Border Mobility of People Working in Luxembourg – Developments and Impacts

Birte Nienaber & Isabelle Pigeron-Piroth

9. Dwelling in (Un)Familiarity – Examples from the Luxembourg-German Borderland

Elisabeth Boesen and Gregor Schnuer

10. The Residential and Symbolic Dimensions of Cross-Border Mobility – Looking at Members of the French Middle Class in the Agglomeration of Lille

Garance Clément

11. Asymmetries in the Formation of the Transnational Borderland in the Slovak-Hungarian Border Region

Tamás Hardi

Biography

Elisabeth Boesen is Senior Researcher at the University of Luxembourg's Institute of History, Luxembourg.

Gregor Schnuer is Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg's Institute of History, Luxembourg.

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