This article presents an analysis of recent developments in labor-related mobility (cross-border commuting) in the Danish-German border region of Sønderjylland-Schleswig. The region had an integrated labor market, until today's German-Danish border was drawn in 1920, dividing the historic Duchy...

This article presents an empirical analysis of border place-making in the Fraser Lowland cross-border region (CBR) of southwest British Columbia, northwest Washington, often referred to as the Pacific Northwest. For five years, beginning in 1999, a protracted legal battle over the construction...

The dominant approach to understanding migration in the Thai-Burma borderlands frames migration largely as an economic effect of industrialization in Thailand and economic stagnation in Burma. Drawing on a range of secondary sources and long-term field-based research on the Thai-Burma border,...

<italic>In the last 20 years, numerous cross-border regions have been launched across Europe. Many studies have been carried out dealing with the analysis of regional building processes. Most of them focus on the work developed by local elites profiting from economic, political and institutional factors...</italic>

<italic>This article analyses the process of spatial integration in ten European cross-border metropolitan regions by comparing three indicators, relating to flows of cross-border commuters, differentials of gross domestic product per capita and residents' citizenship. Our results allow, firstly,...</italic>

<italic>Autonomous movements in southern Nepal have added a new layer of conflict to a volatile political situation. The Maoist armed uprising and pro-democracy movement that abolished the monarchy and initiated a republic unleashed sub-national aspirations for autonomy in the southern borderland region...</italic>

<italic>The purpose of this article is to evaluate the consequences of border devaluation on integration at the local level, within the framework of European integration. The Basel trans-border agglomeration straddles three countries: Germany, France and Switzerland, of which the latter is not a member...</italic>

<italic>The paper proposes a non-state centric approach to the study of borders, building upon Balibar's "borders are everywhere" thesis. It is argued that a vernacularized border studies highlights a number of dimensions not normally accorded priority in the study of borders. Borders can be political...</italic>