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Engineering Digitised Borders Designing and Managing the Visa Information System
This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that...
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A Brief History of the Evolution of Biometrics and Biometric Database Systems Crossing Borders in EU Law Enforcement
This chapter provides an outline of the historical evolution of biometric databases in the European Union and explores how these developments...
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From the Borders and Edges: Youth Cultures, Arts, Urban Areas and Crime Prevention
Youth cultures and their place in the city are a favourite topic of social scientists, with more than a century of research existing on this subject....
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Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors
Media and political discourse in the USA often depict migration as an invasion and people who cross borders as criminals dangerous to the nation....
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Research on Migration, Borders and Citizenship: The Way Ahead
This chapter argues in favour of an increasing connection between migration, borders and citizenship. The chapter warns against shortcomings of...
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From closed border to open tourist space: Landscape changes along the Polish-Slovak border
This paper analyzes a boundary landscape and relevant evolutionary changes in land use at an EU/Schengen internal border (Poland-Slovakia), which was...
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Introduction to Forum: (Im)mobilities, Security, and Identities in West Africa Borderlands
West African borderlands constitute both real and imagined space for negotiating, or enforcing (im)mobilities and migrant agency. The borders are...
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Strategies for Survival in an Informal Economy: Illegalities of Zimbabwean Informal Cross Border Traders at Ports of Entries in Southern Africa
Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) is mostly conducted by poor, vulnerable, small and unregistered traders who end up practising illegal activities...
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Towards ISEW and GPI 2.0: Dealing with Cross-Time and Cross-Boundary Issues in a Case Study for Belgium
Scholars have long had difficulties when dealing with cross-time and cross-boundary issues in the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) and...
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Illuminating informal cross-border trade in processed small pelagic fish in West Africa
Trade in processed small pelagic fish and informal cross-border trade (ICBT) are linked to livelihood activities in West Africa. Although these fish...
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Introduction: The Global Old-Age Care Industry—Tap** into Care Labor Across and Within National Borders
A few weeks after the first COVID-19 infections were diagnosed in Germany, NGOs and experts in the field of old-age care warned of acute bottlenecks...
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Extraterritoriality of European borders to Turkey: an implementation perspective of counteractive strategies
This article seeks to “decolonize” the externalization project of European borders by focusing on the subjectivity of Turkey as being a long-standing...
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‘Your Land or Your Life’! ECOWAS Free Movement Regime, Migration, and Resource Conflicts in West Africa
West African borderlands still depict free labour migration that weaves a complex grid of relations and inter-dependences over the ‘artificial’...
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An Unresolved Crossing: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Oblivion’
Reading David Foster Wallace’s short story ‘Oblivion’ (2004) is a complex endeavor that requires readers to negotiate a generic...
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Critical Community Engagement Across Borders: Canada and Nicaragua
This chapter details a community collaboration across borders and the processes that were operationalized to resist the trap**s of International...
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Critical Community Engagement Across Borders: Canada and Nicaragua
This chapter details a community collaboration across borders and the processes that were operationalized to resist the trap**s of International...
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Social Justice in the Time of COVID-19: Transcend Borders—From the Micro to the Macro, from Patagonia Argentina to the World
The COVID-19 pandemic is an emerging health and therefore a global social phenomenon of considerable magnitude that challenges all countries equally....
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The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring
Building on the case of visa procedures, this article analyses the relationship between border bureaucracies and intermediaries understood as actors,...
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Migrating Beyond Borders and States: Instrumental and Contingent Solidarities Among South Asian Migrant Informal Workers in South Africa
South-to-South migration instead of South to the Global North will dominate global migration trends in the future. This calls for redefining how we...