Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions: Scales, Discourses and Governance

When borders transnationalize people: reframing the migrant transnationalism in the Andean tri-border area

“…The notion of a border as a dividing line that separates peoples, processes and things no longer served to describe movements between nation-states. Cross-border regions situated on the confluence of two or more national spaces emerged as the central axis for the research (Perkmann and Sum 2002), as areas that condense multi-scale phenomena (Sum 2003) that defy two founding ideologies of the nation-state: firstly, the (ethnic, phenotypic and cultural) separation of those who belong to the country from "the others"; and secondly, the idea of the existence of a demarcated spatial limit circumscribing the social processes that would presumably belong to the nation (Kearney 1991).…”

“…The judicial, political, economic and identity asymmetries between neighboring countries promote the emergence of social practices that seek to benefit from these differences, from the liminality between legal and illegal, and between belonging and being uprooted (Grimson 2005). From a critical approach, I consider that the border condition alters the way in which the acts of people or social groups and the macro-structural characteristics of the context breed the construction of "the local," implying, simultaneously, mutual conformation processes with "global" phenomena (Kearney 1995;Perkmann and Sum 2002). 10 This double relationship is inherently dialectic (Kearney 1991(Kearney , 1995 and problematic (Agnew 2008), articulating some changes in the borders in temporal horizons (such as compressed-time and memory-time of nations) and in spatial scales (such as global, regional, national and local 10 Ethnography in border territories requires an analytical sensitivity towards the nuances of the relationship between agency and structure.…”

Cultural influences in cross border cooperation. An overview on Romania – Serbia cross border EU financed programme

“…In this respect, of great importance is to see how social practices influence the institution building across borders, as from the cultural perspective borders are seen to be socially constructed spaces. Cross-border identities and social relations persist notwithstanding the political changes in border demarcations, as borders being never clear-cut (Perkmann, Sum, 2002).…”

Cross-national Neighbouring Effects on European Regional Specialization

“…On the one hand, the Council of Europe (1995) has been an active force in the legal arena, helping to establish a framework for non-central government cooperation across borders; on the other hand, the European Union has been the driving force in the financial arena, providing economic support for such initiatives, in particular backing the launch of the Community Initiative INTERREG in 1990. Functional links do not appear to have played a role in the emergence of CBRs and most of their projects are conducted in institutional, cultural and environmental arenas as opposed to boosting potential economic synergies (Church & Reid, 1996;Brunn & SchmittEgner, 1997;Stryjakiewicz, 1998;Krätke, 1999;Koschatzky, 2000;Perkmann & Sum, 2002;Perkmann, 2003;Meijers & Romein, 2003;Kramsch & Hooper, 2004;Knippenberg, 2004;Matthiessen, 2005).…”