...This chapter introduces the readers to the main topics and arguments of the book, and explains its main goal, which is to explore borders and boundaries, both external, geo-political and internal, socio-political, in order to unpack processes of social reproduction and of exclusion and inclusion...

.... In 2017, the Care Network was created in Barcelona, an attempt to bring together claims from different social groups affected by cutbacks and austerity policies. This chapter analyses these new forms of grassroots activism around care. Based on recent literature on citizenship and border regulation...

...This book is a collection of chapters by anthropologists and other social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy, and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. After a brief introduction outlining the themes and individual contributions, the book...

... for the art worlds to self-determine the borders of their communities. This chapter explains why focusing on artists’ transnational careers, on shifting art centres, on the artworks’ pathways as they cross borders, or on the development of hybridity and transculturation in styles and currents, ultimately...

... cultural custodians at the time considerably marginalised expatriatism in favour of nationalistic and patriarchal narratives, restricting the definition of Australian art as being strictly produced within the geographical borders of Australia. However, as early as the 1920s, a number of individuals sought...

... mobilities. desire lifestyle migration post socialism tourism war border Finland gender Italy marriage Naples other the Russia sexuality work labour masculinity nation Soviet transformation transition welfare European Union family Norway Ukraine desirability fantasy subject...

...This chapter explores knowledge practices and possibilities for disobedient knowledge in the context of administrative border struggles, i.e. actions that negotiate and/or challenge administrative borders. These might include, but are not limited to, efforts to make one’s asylum claim heard...

... and representation. The body of the reader is described as a contentious location that authors both evoke and resist; and this porous border is also demonstrated as existing between paratexts and the works they accompany. Congreve William Aleman Matheo Amadis of Gaul Ariosto Ludovico Cervantes Miguel de history...

... Remembering Babylon takes its place in the modern world of racial and cultural borders. Australia Harland's Half Acre memory nation postcoloniality Remembering Babylon settler society Aboriginality Brady Veronica exile Perera Suvendrini politics Bliss Carolyn hybridity Mitchell Michael...

..., and that are addressed directly in the conclusion. identity Barth Fredrik violence emotions othering anti British Somme Battle of Union Flag Irish government Identity Identification Self-understanding Interaction Similarity and difference Solidarity Borders Othering He allowed himself to be swayed by his...

... Emotions Borders Violence There was great slaughter then, man, woman, child, With fire and pillage of our timbered houses; We had to build in stone for ever after That terror dogs us; back of all our thought The threat behind the dream, those beacons flare, And we run headlong, screaming in our...

...: politics as a product of discourse and politics as a determinant of discourse. Nation-statehood is traditionally conceptualised in official discourse as primarily important in the three thematic areas of identity, borders and governance. media European Union EU functionalism culture Department...

...This chapter discusses the meaning and significance given to ‘borders’ by official Irish discourse when defining Irish ‘territory’ and European ‘space’. The model of national territory is of a physical, bordered polity made live by the narrative of a common homeland. The framework of European space...

... and European history – from the pre-détente Cold War years to the Brexit era. The narratives reflect the evolution of British views of borders and geopolitical orientations, engaging with the Iron Curtain as the hardest European border to date as well as Britain’s position towards/within Europe. Significantly...

... by state officials, as well as symbolic-spatial splintering of urban spaces with asylum migrants concentrated in already deprived areas. The chapter highlights how these mechanisms operate at the local level of British cities in similar ways to what happens with the externalisation of border control across...

... (fragmentation of the culture, demography and multiculturalization, the impact of globalization, reaction to an influx of racially and culturally distinct populations, popular xenophobia and racism, religion vs. secularisation, one's own ethnicity living outside the borders of the mother state); 5...

...The English Systemis a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. It challenges generally held assumptions that quarantine policies delineated intransigent national borders...

...This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albanian-Greek cross-border highway. It is not merely an ethnography on the road but an anthropology of the road. Complex sociopolitical phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics...

...Art and migration: revisioning the borders of community is a collective response to current and historic constructs of migration as disruptive of national heritage. This interplay of academic essays and art professionals’ interviews investigates how the visual arts – especially...

...This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and representation in different borderscapes. It provides fresh insight into the ways in which borders, borderscapes and migration are imagined and narrated by offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border. The case...