Changing Borders and Challenging Belonging : Policy Change and Private Experience

The borders in Europe are becoming ever more permeable. This volume investigates the effects of border creation on both the individual and the collective, in the past and the present. It explores feelings of belonging, identity formation and social and legal inclusion/exclusion at both the macro and micro level.

Georg Grote is a historian and Senior Researcher in the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research in Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol – Italy). He holds a PhD in History from Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany. He works on minority histories in nationalist and regionalist contexts in Europe and has recently published a three-volume history of the South Tyrol issue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, based on regional private archives. He previously taught in the National University of Ireland.

Andrea Carlà is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research in Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol – Italy). He holds a PhD in Politics from the New School for Social Research, New York, USA. His research explores the interplay among ethnic politics/minority protection, migration studies and security issues, focusing in particular on the concepts of (de)securitization and human security and their application to minority issues. He is the co-editor of Migration in Autonomous Territories: The Case of South Tyrol and Catalonia (2015).