Migrations and Border Processes

Margit Fauser

ISBN 10: 0367693771 / ISBN 13: 9780367693770

Published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, 2023

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from history, sociology and anthropology to explore cross-boundary mobility and migration during the formation, development, and transformation of the modern (nation-)state explicating the conflictive and fluctuating character of borders.Current media images of a 'fortress Europe' suggest that migrations and borders are closely connected. The historical perspective demonstrates that such bordering processes are not new. However, they have developed new dynamics in different historical phases, from the formation of the modern (nation-)state in the nineteenth century to the creation of the European Union during the second half of the twentieth century. This book explains the dynamic relationships between borders and migratory movements in Europe from the nineteenth century to the present by approaching them from four different, overlapping angles: (1) the multiple actors involved, (2) scales and places of borders and their crossings, (3) the instruments and techniques employed and (4) the significance of social categories. Focusing on the historical, local specificity of the complex relations between migrations and boundaries will help denaturalize the concept of the border as well as further reflection on the shifting definitions of migration and belonging.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies. 162 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migrations and Border Processes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367693771
• ISBN 13: 9780367693770
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 174H x 9D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 174 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 240 grams

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Synopsis

Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from history, sociology and anthropology to explore cross-boundary mobility and migration during the formation, development, and transformation of the modern (nation-)state explicating the conflictive and fluctuating character of borders.

Current media images of a "fortress Europe" suggest that migrations and borders are closely connected. The historical perspective demonstrates that such bordering processes are not new. However, they have developed new dynamics in different historical phases, from the formation of the modern (nation-)state in the nineteenth century to the creation of the European Union during the second half of the twentieth century. This book explains the dynamic relationships between borders and migratory movements in Europe from the nineteenth century to the present by approaching them from four different, overlapping angles: (1) the multiple actors involved, (2) scales and places of borders and their crossings, (3) the instruments and techniques employed and (4) the significance of social categories. Focusing on the historical, local specificity of the complex relations between migrations and boundaries will help denaturalize the concept of the border as well as further reflection on the shifting definitions of migration and belonging.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

About the Author

Margit Fauser is Professor of Migration, Transculturality and Internationalization at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Anne Friedrichs is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany.

Levke Harders is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany.