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Workshop « Frontières et spatialités entre réalités et imaginaires »
The Université de Lorraine is organising a research workshop on 2 and 3 June 2022 for young and experienced researchers, entitled "Frontières et spatialités entre réalités et imaginaires / Grenzen und Grenzräumlichkeiten zwischen Realität und Imagination".
This workshop focuses on the spatial dimension of boundaries and border experiences. Increased attention is paid to the interplay…
New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: La segmentation linguistique de l'emploi au Luxembourg
Based on a sample of job advertisements published in the main Luxembourgish daily newspaper (Luxemburger Wort) covering the period 1984-2019, this study describes the development of language skills required on the Luxembourg job market.
The new UniGR-CBS Working Paper shows how the lack of language skills led to a segmentation of the labor market.
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The UniGR-Center for Border Studies welcomes Border Researchers from Ukraine
May 9 is Europe Day, which is even celebrated as a holiday in Luxembourg! On this emblematic date in 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schumann presented his ideas for a new political and economic cooperation to prevent war between the nations of Europe. The speech known as the Schumann Declaration is now – 72 years later – again highly relevant and guiding for a…
Cross-border Work in Europe: Regional Practices and Realities
There are two million cross-border workers in Europe, most of them working in Switzerland and Luxembourg. In spite of the growing significance of this phenomenon, no European research on cross-border working had yet been formally established. LISER, the UniGR-Center for Border Studies and its partners organised the "Cross-border Work in Europe" conference, which took place on 5 and 6 May 2022…
Conférence – The Tao of Mestizaje : Multiple Borders, Multiple Bridges
The talk will describe the author's 70 plus years of living and writing plays on, about, and through different borders. Carlos Morton has lived on the border between Mexico and the United States since 1981, teaching at universities in Texas, California and Mexico. In the lecture, the central theme is the concept of Mestizaje and the clash of different cultures and…
New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper: Training and the cross-border labour market
The bilingual Policy Paper on the cross-border labour market in the Greater Region shows how measures in the field of training can regulate interregional imbalances.
The UniGR-CBS Policy Paper has been realized in collaboration with the Fondation IDEA asbl.
Bibliographical references and download…
Lecture – “Learning to Speak English”: Displays and Displaces of Vulnerability in Contemporary Migrant Literature
This talk will explore the role of linguistic borders and border crossings in self-expression and in social and communal identity as witnessed in recent performed and written migrant literature. The focus will be on US-based writers.
In the lecture, Ana Elisa Gomez Laris will address multilingual works and spaces and underline the importance of language usage…
Cross-Border Work in Europe: Regional Practices and Realities
International conference, 5-6 May 2022
Two million cross-border commuters work in Europe, most of them in Switzerland and Luxembourg. Despite the growing importance of the phenomenon, no European research on cross-border workers has been established yet. LISER, the UniGR Center for Border Studies and other partners aim to fill this gap with the conference "Cross-Border Work in Europe"…