Border Regions Series: Border Regions Series
About the Book Series
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In recent years, borders have taken on an immense significance. Throughout the world they have shifted, been constructed and dismantled, and become physical barriers between socio-political ideologies. They may separate societies with very different cultures, histories, national identities or economic power, or divide people of the same ethnic or cultural identity. As manifestations of some of the world's key political, economic, societal and cultural issues, borders and border regions have received much academic attention over the past decade. This valuable series publishes high quality research monographs and edited comparative volumes that deal with all aspects of border regions, both empirically and theoretically. It will appeal to scholars interested in border regions and geopolitical issues across the whole range of social sciences.
Cross Border Security in the Southern African Region: Transcending Statolatry
1st Edition
By Inocent Moyo
November 28, 2025
This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region. It advances explanations that transcend the state-centric narrative that has nationalised cross-border security. It provides insights from non-state actors such as informal ...
From Ukraine to the European Union and Back: Ukrainians’ Return Migration and Reintegration
1st Edition
By Jussi S. Jauhiainen
September 30, 2025
This book examines the experiences of Ukrainians who fled the escalated war, focusing on their journeys to the European Union, adaptation there, and eventual return and reintegration into Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork in Ukraine in 2024 and 2025, surveys, and interviews with returnees, it provides ...
Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe
1st Edition
By Antonia-Maria Sarantaki
October 07, 2024
This book examines the rapidly expanding EU agency’s distinct role in EU border control, showing that Frontex is a prominent border control actor that reshapes the EU borders by promoting a new border control culture. Bringing culture into the analysis of Frontex, this book offers an alternative ...
Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
May 27, 2024
This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders. By considering those less visible aspects of borders, the book develops an inclusive ...
Borderlands Resilience: Transitions, Adaptation and Resistance at Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
September 25, 2023
This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience ...
African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
May 31, 2023
This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa. African borders or borderlands can be a source of problems and opportunity. There is often a historical, geospatial ...
Expanding Boundaries: Borders, Mobilities and the Future of Europe-Africa Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jussi Laine, Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
May 31, 2023
This book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis. Migrant ...
Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Inocent Moyo, Jussi Laine, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
May 31, 2023
This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent. It examines borders and securitisation of migration and the challenges and opportunities that arise out of reconfigured continental demographics. The book offers ...
Community, Change and Border Towns
1st Edition
By H. Şenoğuz
September 30, 2020
This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to power, inclusion/exclusion and hierarchy in a Turkish border town, with a focus on the impact of nation-state border on social stratification and change.Through the lens of ethnographic research and oral history, the book explores social mobility ...
Borderless Worlds for Whom?: Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Anssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, Kaj Zimmerbauer
June 30, 2020
The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls. Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have simultaneously become key political figures. Border and mobility studies are now two sides...
Ethnicity, Gender and the Border Economy: Living in the Turkey-Georgia Borderlands
1st Edition
By Latife Akyüz
December 19, 2018
For whom and why are borders drawn? What are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? And what are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? Constituted by experience and memory, borders shape a "border image" in the minds and social memory of people beyond the lines of the...
European Borderlands: Living with Barriers and Bridges
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabeth Boesen, Gregor Schnuer
July 30, 2018
The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared – not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe – but rather they have changed...