Where Are Europe’s New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing

Cooper, Anthony

doi:10.1080/14782804.2015.1101266

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“…From this perspective, borders do not merely include the regulation of national territorial borders in a more traditional sense, they also 'control mobility rather than territory' (Dürrschmidt 2007, 56). Borders may boost work-related mobility due to economic differences in wages and housing, but also constitute physical, social, cultural, and mental barriers due to cultural and political differences and bureaucratic systems (Paasi & Prokkola 2008;Mathä & Wintr 2009;Cooper 2015). Borders may affect not only commuting but also other types of cross-border mobilities such as tourism, shopping, and migration.…”

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The border as an engine for mobility and spatial integration: A study of commuting in a Swedish–Norwegian context

Möller

Olsson

Ericsson

et al. 2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The purpose of the study was to analyse how cross-border commuting differed from intranational commuting in Sweden, and how cross-border mobilities affected spatial integration. The authors analysed patterns and spatial flows of cross-border commuting by comparing them with characteristics of intranational commuting. In the article, they explore the assumption that the border constitutes an 'engine' for work-related mobility, which affects processes of spatial integration in cross-border areas. The empirical material comprised data from surveys of commuting from the Swedish county of Värmland to Norway and commuting within Värmland. The findings showed that cross-border commuting shared common features with intranational commuting, including how the frequency of commuting was dependent on distance. The motives for commuting differed, and the reasons for working in Norway were economic rather than professional. In terms of spatial integration, cross-border commuting was mainly onedirectional, from Sweden to Norway, while leisure mobility and migration tended to be in the opposite direction. The authors conclude that the border region is characterised by integration through specialisation, which involves a permanent state of 'transient' mobility. Thus, a win-win situation can be distinguished, in which the border serves as a resource and an 'engine' for cross-border integration, mobility and economic activities.

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The border as an engine for mobility and spatial integration: A study of commuting in a Swedish–Norwegian context

Möller

Olsson

Ericsson

et al. 2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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“…Further, case-specific developments more broadly call into question the rationale underlying the construction of EU external borders and the practices that were proposed and enacted to manage them. Indeed, our analysis is premised on the assumption that the history of European integration and the emergence of the EU as an actor in the international arena is closely intertwined with bordering, de-bordering and re-bordering practices, that is, the making and unmaking of borders as socio-spatial political processes (Cooper 2015).…”

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Whose Enemy at the Gates? Border Management in the Context of EU Crisis Response in Libya and Ukraine

Loschi

Russo

2020

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This paper discusses uses and misuses of EU border management models and strategies in the framework of crisis response interventions in the Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods. It focuses especially on Libya and Ukraine, cases which dramatically stand out as the conflicts at the gates of Europe. The deployment of border management instruments appears to follow different trajectories in the two countries, diverging in terms of both design and implementation. By relying on collaborative research materials resulting from extensive fieldwork, the paper argues that the differentiation of EU's interventions across the ENP countries can be explained as the result of growing political and institutional fragmentation in the EU, the replacement of the "transformative power"-mantra with new stabilization templates and weak strategic consistency among member states, each conveying different security identities and interests vis-à-vis EU's external actions and sectors. Primary data, collected between 2016 and 2018, does not point to an increase in conflict-sensitivity, context-specificity and local ownership, they rather reveal the crisis of the EU´s liberal project.

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“…Where are borders located? As Anthony Cooper (2015) has suggested Europe's borders are not necessarily made in Europe according to realist notions of territoriality and sovereignty. but that borders of Europe are actively negotiated as well as imagined at many di erent scales and sites.…”

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Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation

Scott

2022

TéT

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This paper discusses ways in which Hungarian border studies have reflected processes of post-1989 transformation by moving towards a contextual perspective on diaerent border-making (bordering) processes. Traditionally, Hungarian border studies, and with them geographical conceptualizations of Hungarian state spaces, have reflected changing historical and political contexts as well as dominant scientific paradigms that have shifted with time. In the past, this has also manifested itself in varying degrees of environmental determinism and ethno-nationalism. In the contemporary context, Hungarian border studies have developed a plural, multilevel as well as critical focus that interlinks diaerent areas where borders are politically and socially relevant. As will be elaborated in the following, several conceptualisations of Hungary’s border situation have emerged that reflect: 1) new cross-border economic, political and social spaces, 2) the influence of European integration on Hungary’s politics of borders and 3) the symbolic significance of contemporary and historical borders. These concepts, which will be dealt with below, express both historical continuity as well as conceptual innovation deriving from more recent experience. Above all, the development of Hungarian border studies, particularly since 1989, is of particular significance as it manifests a shift from an ‘introverted’ perspective to a conceptualization of Hungary both as a nation-state and as a borderlands society within contemporary Europe. This contribution makes no attempt at comprehensiveness and it is, admittedly, a highly selective overview of a very rich and multidisciplinary research field. In the interest of brevity, attention will focus on only a few representative strands of investigation that, in my view, have been formative in the more recent development of Hungarian border studies.

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Where Are Europe’s New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

The border as an engine for mobility and spatial integration: A study of commuting in a Swedish–Norwegian context

The border as an engine for mobility and spatial integration: A study of commuting in a Swedish–Norwegian context

Whose Enemy at the Gates? Border Management in the Context of EU Crisis Response in Libya and Ukraine

Hungarian Border Research as a reflection of European integration and regional transformation

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