Border Encounters

Jutta Lauth Bacas holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Zurich with a special focus on migration studies. She has held teaching positions at universities in both Switzerland and Germany and also worked as a researcher at the Academy of Athens, Greece. Co-founder of the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, she is a member of the Advisory Board of InASEA and co-editor of issues of Ethnologia Balkanica and the Journal of Mediterranean Studies. William Kavanagh holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and is Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at CEU San Pablo University and the Madrid campuses of New York University and Suffolk University. Co-founder of the Mediterraneanist Network of EASA, he is on the executive committees of two Spanish anthropological associations and is a delegate on the World Council of Anthropological Associations.

"...provides a rich and thought provoking perspective on encounters and connectivity at the borders of Europe – both internal and external." · The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland"As befits anthropology, Border Encounters is rich in empirical detail. However, it is also an excellent introduction to border theory, with a helpful literature review. The theoretical framework clearly set out in the Introduction and the individual chapters do collectively illustrate why borders should be seen as constructs and as sites of asymmetrical social relationships...All in all, this is an intriguing and well-structured volume which will be of interest to students and scholars from a variety of academic disciplines." · LSE Review of Books

• Introduction: Border Encounters - Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh Part I: Opening Borders Chapter 1. Consumer Rites: the Politics of Consumption in a Re-Unified Germany Daphne Berdahl Chapter 2. Cross-Border Relations and Regional Identity on the Polish-German Border Robert Parkin Chapter 3. Anti-Nuclear Activism at the Czech-Austrian Border Birgit Muller Chapter 4. Powerful Documents: Passports, Passages and Dilemmas of Identification on the Georgian - Turkish Border Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 5. Proximity and Asymmetry on the Portuguese - Spanish Border William Kavanagh Part II: Strengthening Borders Chapter 6. Asymmetries of Gender and Generation on a Post-Soviet Borderland Laura Assmuth Chapter 7. 'We are all tourists': Enduring Social Relations and Changing Proximities and Asymmetries at the Romanian-Serbian Border in Different Mobility Regimes Cosmin Radu Chapter 8. 'We used to be one country': Rural Transformations, Economic Asymmetries and National Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Tatiana Zhurzhenko Part III: Crossing Forbidden Borders Chapter 9. Under One Roof: Six Years of Border Crossings in Cyprus Lisa Dikomitis Chapter 10. The Birth of a Border: Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge Maurizio Albahari Chapter 11. Managing Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters: The Reception of Undocumented Migrants on a Greek Border Island Jutta Lauth Bacas Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index