Migrating borders and moving times
RETHINKING BORDERS
SERIES EDITORS: SARAH GREEN AND HASTINGS DONNAN
Rethinking Borders focuses on what gives borders their qualities across time and space, as well as on how such borders are experienced, built, managed, imagined and changed. This involves detailed and often richly ethnographic studies of all aspects of borders: finance and money, bureaucracy, trade, law, new technologies, materiality, infrastructure, gender and sexuality, even the philosophy of what counts as being borderly, as well as the more familiar topics of migration, nationalism, politics, conflicts and security.
Migrating borders and moving times
Temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe
EDITED BY HASTINGS DONNAN, MADELEINE HURD AND CAROLIN LEUTLOFF-GRANDITS
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Contents
Introduction: crossing borders, changing times
Madeleine Hurd, Hastings Donnan and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
1 EU cross-border Passagenwerk
Olivier Thomas Kramsch
2 Negotiating neighbourliness in Sarajevo apartment blocks
Zaira Lofranco
3 Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the UkrainianRomanian borderlands
Kathryn Cassidy
4 Travelling genealogies: tracing relatedness and diversity in the AlbanianMontenegrin borderland
Jelena Toi
5 Living on borrowed time: borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labour migrants in Israel
Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida
6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
7 Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in southern Albania
Nataa Gregori Bon
8 Missing migrants: deaths at sea and unidentified bodies in Lesbos
Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins
Kathryn Cassidy is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Northumbria University, UK and an Associate Member of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London, where she worked as a Senior Research Fellow on the EUBORDERSCAPES project. Kathryn is a feminist human geographer with research interests in bordering and everyday carceralities in contemporary Europe. She recently completed the co-authored Bordering (Polity, 2017), with Nira Yuval-Davis and Georgie Wemyss, with whom she has also recently co-edited two special journal issues: Racialised Bordering Discourses and European Roma in Ethnic and Racial Studies and Intersectional Borders in Political Geography.
Hastings Donnan is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for International Borders Research at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the UKs Academy of Social Sciences. He has published over twenty books and numerous journal articles, including, with T. M. Wilson, A Companion to Border Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); Borderlands: Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power and Identity (University Press of America, 2010); Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Borderlands (LIT, 2005); Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State (Berg, 1999) and Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Nataa Gregori Bon is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies in the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and an Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is author of The Spaces of Discordance (ZRC Publishing), which has been translated into Albanian; co-editor of the Moving Places series (Berghahn Books), and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on spatial anthropology and movement in Albania. She is also Book Review Editor for Anthropological Notebooks and co-editor of the Space, Place, Time Series (ZRC Publishing).
Robin A. Harper is an Associate Professor of Political Science at York College, City University of New York, USA. Her research focuses on migrant public policy in comparative context in Germany, Israel and the United States. Research questions explore the meaning(s) of citizenship, belonging, inclusion/exclusion, borders and temporary labour migration.
Madeleine Hurd is an Associate Professor in the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies at the University of Sdertrn, Stockholm, Sweden. Among her many publications are Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 18751914 (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and a number of anthologies on borders and territory in Scandinavia. Her current research focuses on environmentalist discourses and eco-nationalism in the Baltic Sea region.
Iosif Kovras is a Senior Lecturer in comparative politics at City University, London, UK. His research interests include comparative politics, post-conflict transitional justice and human rights. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, Comparative Politics, Nations and Nationalism, Political Geography and Cooperation and Conflict, among others. His research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the British Academy and other funding bodies, while in 2012 he received the Basil Chubb Prize for the best dissertation in Political Science, awarded by the Political Studies Association of Ireland.
Olivier Thomas Kramsch is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Geography at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where he is also a leading member of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR). He has written extensively on the power geometries associated with transboundary regional governance within the European Union, while training attention on Europes governmentalising practices on its external frontiers (i.e. the Mediterranean, North Africa and South America), viewed through a postcolonial lens. He is himself a