Liminality and Transnationalism. Two Forces upon Shifting Borders in Contemporary Europe
- The working paper presents two analytical concepts to examine territorial borders: liminality and transnationalism. The combination of both concepts offers an approach to borders and migration practices which takes borders not simply as a point of departure but puts border zones and their transgressions to the centre of attention, revealing their ambiguous, in-between character. Taking into account empirical observations of complex, multi-directional migration patterns and conceptualizing them as liminal transmigration, we challenge the rhetoric of impermeable territorial borders and an enduring, one-way migration flow into Western Europe. Instead, we propose a perspective on borders that not only allows for ambiguities but makes analytical as well as empirical disruptions productive.
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| Author: | Timm BeicheltORCiD, Lea Valentin |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-6224 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.11584/b-orders.7 |
| Parent Title (English): | Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION (7) |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/04/21 |
| Publishing Institution: | Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt |
| Release Date: | 2020/04/21 |
| Tag: | Borders; Boundaries; Liminality; Migration; Transnationalism |
| Page Number: | 17 |
| Institutes: | Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 International - Namensnennung |
