... Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) While the African Union's boundary practices may have prevented major border wars in the continent, a decolonial perspective shows that they have paradoxically enhanced...

... the changing dynamics of border controls in the context of the COVID pandemic, and its consequences for border control workers, particularly police, border agents and the military. We focus on three areas: the Anglo-French (Dover-Calais) maritime border, the Euro-African border (Ceuta-Tetuán) and the South...

... in Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design (DiD-GRDD), which compares 2020 vs. 2017–2019 excess mortality in Lombardy’s municipalities close to the administrative borders with neighbouring municipalities in other regions. Our study documents a one to two percentage point higher excess mortality in Lombardy...

... populations, securitized border policies and restrictions on life-saving aid. Despite their immobilization, the paper highlights how the displaced migrants formed self-government and engaged in claim-making for aid, rights, and homeland political change, thus transforming the death worlds of the No Man’s Land...

... have an impact on the larger ecology of the region, when natural resources are part of the national securitization narrative. This was exemplified through the India–China border contestations, which are portrayed in the domestic sphere as non-cooperation by a foreign aggressor, and therefore requiring...

... This article investigates the meaning that refugee solidarity activists supporting people on the move across the Western Balkans migratory route and at the Italian–French border attribute to the notion of ‘care’, which they use to define their solidarity practices, particularly in the aftermath of the global...

...Susann Kassem Contests over UNIFIL’s Blue Line demarcation are not unique to Blida. Nearly simultaneously, a similar issue took place in the village of Shebʿa. Israel began to construct and fence off an area along the border that is claimed by the Lebanese government and citizens of Shebʿa...

...John Harrington; Abbie-Rose Hampton Corresponding author: [email protected] Patient mobility for treatment is particularly significant given that 90% of the Welsh population lives within 50 miles of the Wales–England border, while 30% of the combined English and Welsh population live...

...Olivia Maury Student-migrants are active subjects who negotiate life and liveability in the tensions between subjective aspirations and the political architecture of migration categories and imaginaries surrounding such categories. To grasp the tensions between the border regime and the student...

... organizations (CSOs) on migration and refugee issues with state-making processes and discourses in South Africa, based upon key informant interviews, discourse analysis, and ethnographic research. It argues that this relationship brings attention to the defining and reinforcement of national borders set against...

... jobs is both a form of resistance and a reinforcement of existing stereotypes and oppressive gender relations ( Collins and Daly 2021 ). While the employer draws a line in the sand—a social bordering, as it were—in an effort to keep her ‘out’ because of her nationality (intersected with her gender...

... beyond borders seems to be largely accepted, the implementation remains a key challenge. The same can be said about the obligations of NSAs and individuals in armed conflict. Additional and possibly even farther-reaching challenges arise in the context of the opportunities and dangers presented...

... of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This paper argues that the border regime works through entanglements of digital...

...Kim Rygiel This article draws on border studies scholarship to make explicit what’s at stake in border theorizing in refugee/migrant solidarity activism as citizenship politics. ¹ Critical border scholarship highlights that borders are much more than ‘lines in the sand’ ( Parker...

...Justyna Bell; Anne Balke Staver; Ida Tolgensbakk Abstract Transnational family living refers to the situation of maintaining relationships across national borders. It is dependent on a certain degree of flexibility from the state. As part of the crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic...

.../licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This ethnographic study investigates the ways in which the label of refugee creates and reinforces particular kinds of boundaries and borders...

...Suzan Ilcan; Seçil Dağtaş; Lana Gonzalez Balyk Following these pre-existing forms of borderland porosities, both Lebanon and Turkey adopted an open border policy in the early years of the Syrian conflict, which in turn allowed many displaced Syrians to enter these countries freely. However, instead...

... conflict through at least four mechanisms. First, robust empirical evidence suggests that contiguous states are much more likely to fight each other than states that do not share a border. ¹⁹ Creating a buffer territory between the two rival states negates contiguity by generating physical...

... and other nationals from Afghanistan in 2021, and perhaps even renders benevolent their discretionary selection of Afghans who assisted with the occupation. In general, advocacy on behalf of refugees and migrants takes the form of expanding legal exceptions to the enforcement of borders, or pushing...

... economy underlining the new German migration policies and their corresponding governmental strategies in the light of a wider historical process involving global migrants’ mobility and the processes of bordering enacted by European Union (EU) institutions. The global post-war society after 1945...