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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"…

Esch2022 – Regards sur un territoire transfrontalier en mouvement

In collaboration with the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, this event will bring together researchers and the general public on the subject of the evolution of landscapes and territories, as well as on the planning issues that arise from it.

The cross-border area of the Alzette has been sustainably marked by phases of industrialization and deindustrialization.…

New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: Border regions in times of the Covid 19 pandemic

Restrictions of freedom and border controls took center stage two years ago, sharply limiting cross-border everyday life.

Based on a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles of the Saarbrücker Zeitung in spring 2020, the new UniGR-CBS Working Paper traces central discussions with a focus on the cross-border area of the Greater Region.  …

Lecture – Bridging Fluid Borders. Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland

Riverine borders are not “natural” borders dividing up space – certainly not for the people who have called these fluid borderlands their home for years, decades, or even centuries. One example is the Oyapock River, the official border between Brazil and France, which is a one-way street.

In the lecture, Fabio Santos goes into ethnographic details of the…

Border Renaissance: Recent Developments in Territorial, Cultural, and Linguistic Border Studies

Borders are once again facing a new visibility and attention. This development in society and politics was the focus of the international conference "Border Renaissance" on February 4 and 5, 2022. The event of border scholars from the Greater Region, who collaborate in the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, focused on the new importance of borders in European border…

UniGR-CBS Conference 2022: Border Renaissance

Scholars from North America, Europe and the Greater Region will discuss current developments and results in border research on February 4 and 5, 2022. The UniGR-CBS conference deals with the renaissance of borders and brings together territorial and cultural Border Studies. The 22 multilingual panels with nearly 100 speakers are international and represent the…

Lecture – The digitization of border security

The talk explores the digitization of migration and border control based on the example of the post-Brexit EU-UK maritime border.

Damien Simonneau is a lecturer in Political Science at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales where his research focuses on contemporary border security. As a guest researcher he was at the Technische…