Journal of Borderlands Studies

2012 - 2025

Current editor(s): Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde

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Volume 32, issue 4, 2017

Theorizing Town Twinning—Towards a Global Perspective pp. 423-428

Pertti Joenniemi and Jarosław Jańczak

Others as Selves, Selves as Others: Theorizing City-Twinning pp. 429-442

Pertti Joenniemi

City-Twinning in IR Theory: Escaping the Confines of the Ordinary pp. 443-458

Pertti Joenniemi and Alexander Sergunin

City Twinning from a Grassroots Perspective: Introducing a Spatial Framework to the Study of Twin Cities pp. 459-475

Virpi Kaisto

Town Twinning in Europe. Understanding Manifestations and Strategies pp. 477-495

Jarosław Jańczak

Binational Cooperation and Twinning: A View from the US–Mexican Border, San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California pp. 497-511

Paul Ganster and Kimberly Collins

Ersatz Twin City Formation? The Case of Blagoveshchensk and Heihe pp. 513-533

Ekaterina Mikhailova and Chung-Tong Wu

Peripheral Urbanism in Africa: Border Towns and Twin Towns in Africa pp. 535-556

Isabella Soi and Paul Nugent

The Merits of Reciprocity: Small-town Twinning in the Wake of the Second World War pp. 557-576

Andreas Langenohl

Town Twinning, Transnational Connection and Trans-Local Citizenship in Europe pp. 577-578

Jarosław Jańczak

European Border Regions in Comparison: Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-nationalization? pp. 579-581

Frédéric Durand

Volume 32, issue 3, 2017

The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2010 pp. 275-288

Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber

The Leviathan Field Triggering a Maritime Border Dispute Cyprus, Israel, and Lebanon pp. 289-304

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif

The Consolidation of the Angola—Zambia Border: Violence, Forced Displacement, Smugglers and Savimbi pp. 305-324

Pedro Figueiredo Neto

France-Brazil Cross-border Cooperation Strategies: Experiences and Perspectives on Migration and Trade pp. 325-343

Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva

Protective Barriers and Entrapping Walls: Perceptions of Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Bosnian Diaspora pp. 345-359

Laura Huttunen

Power, Mobility and the Economic Vulnerability of Borderlands pp. 361-377

Giorgia Bressan

Neighborhood Policy, Cross-border Cooperation and the Re-bordering of the Italy–Tunisia Frontier pp. 379-393

Filippo Celata, Raffaella Coletti and Andrea Stocchiero

Borders of Authority: Power in the Canadian Borderlands at the 1844 Jesuit-Anishinaabeg Debate pp. 395-411

Jacob C. Jurss

Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914 pp. 413-414

Martin Klatt

Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future pp. 415-416

Christophe Sohn

Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border pp. 417-419

Victor Konrad

Russia and East Asia: Informal and Gradual Integration pp. 421-422

Artyom Lukin

Volume 32, issue 2, 2017

Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation pp. 127-139

Anastasia Bezverkha

“Our Troubled Neighbour Across the River”: Transborder Journalism in a Canadian–US Border Region pp. 141-155

Kevin Grieves

The Revival of the UAE–Saudi Arabia Border Dispute in the 21 Century pp. 157-172

Noura S. Al Mazrouei

Cross-Border Integration through Contestation? Political Parties and Media in the Swiss–Italian Borderland pp. 173-192

Oscar Mazzoleni and Sean Mueller

Culturological Analysis of Filmic Border Crossings: Popular Geopolitics of Accessing the Soviet Union from Finland pp. 193-209

Juha Ridanpää

Recent Demographic Change in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: The Importance of Domestic Migration pp. 211-231

Igor Ryabov and Stephen Merino

Identity Performances in a US–Mexico Border Celebration pp. 233-247

D. Carolina Ramos

European Cross-Border Regions as Policy-makers: A Comparative Approach pp. 249-265

Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy and Almudena Sánchez Sánchez

How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics pp. 267-268

Nimmi Kurian

Placing the Border in Everyday Life pp. 269-270

Georgie Wemyss

Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity pp. 271-272

Pádraig Carmody

Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste pp. 273-274

Chiara Brambilla

Volume 32, issue 1, 2017

The Myth of Eurasia—a Mess of Regions pp. 1-6

Jeremy Smith and Paul Richardson

Geopolitical Visions, Globalisation, and the Remaking of Russia’s Eurasian Borders pp. 7-21

Paul Benjamin Richardson

Constructing European Neighborhood: Critical Perspectives from EU-Ukraine Interaction and Civil Society Actors pp. 23-39

James Wesley Scott

A Tale of Two Unions: Russia–Belarus Integration Experience and its Lessons for the Eurasian Economic Union pp. 41-53

Alena Vieira

Borders Inside and Outside Alliances: Russia’s Eastern Frontiers During the Cold War and After pp. 55-70

Akihiro Iwashita

The Last Closed Border of the Cold War: Turkey–Armenia pp. 71-90

Vicken Cheterian

The Transformation of Soviet Republic Borders to International Borders: Competing Concepts of the Kazakhstan-Russia Border pp. 91-104

Jeremy Smith

How Does Russian Federalism Work? Looking at Internal Borders in the Russian Federation pp. 105-119

Irina Busygina

Limits to Globalization: National Borders Still Matter pp. 121-122

Harlan Koff

Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community, and Securitizing Space pp. 123-124

Reece Jones

European–East Asian Borders in Translation pp. 125-126

Alexander Bukh

Volume 31, issue 4, 2016

Life on the Border: The Impact of the Separation Barrier on the Residents of the Barta'a Enclave Demilitarized Zone pp. 401-425

Arnon Medzini

The Beitbridge–Mussina Interface: Towards Flexible Citizenship, Sovereignty and Territoriality at the Border pp. 427-440

Inocent Moyo

Technology Spillovers and International Borders: A Spatial Econometric Analysis pp. 441-461

Amjad Naveed and Nisar Ahmad

Commuter Migration Across Artificial Frontiers: The Case of Partitioned Communities Along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique Border pp. 463-479

Anusa Daimon

Centralization as a Barrier to Cross-Border Cooperation? Some Preliminary Notes from an Iberian Approach pp. 481-495

Enrique G. Pérez-Nieto

Indo-Pak Relations and the Kashmir Problem: From 1947 to the Present Day pp. 497-520

Kunal Mukherjee

“Precarity” of the Territorialized State: Immigrants Re-drawing and Re-mapping the Borders pp. 521-536

Ugur Yildiz

Constructing Cooperation: Chinese Ontological Security Seeking in the South China Sea Dispute pp. 537-549

Henry Curtis

Far from Home: Mexican Women Deported from the US to Tijuana, Mexico pp. 551-561

María Dolores París-Pombo and Diana Carolina Peláez-Rodríguez

Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City pp. 563-564

Tamar Arieli

Scars of Partition: Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands pp. 565-566

Anthony I. Asiwaju

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Volume 31, issue 3, 2016

The West Bank Wall pp. 271-279

Reece Jones, Christine Leuenberger and Emily Regan Wills

In Jayyous: Notes from a Palestinian Village pp. 281-286

Marcello Di Cintio

Chameleon Wall. Inside Two Competing Coalitions of Pro-“Fence” Actors in Israel pp. 287-304

Damien Simonneau

Constructing a “Wall”: Discursive Fields, Social Movements, and the Politics of the [Wall/Barrier/Fence] pp. 305-318

Emily Regan Wills

Radical Indeterminancies: Affirmations and Subversions of the Separation Wall—The Case of the Palestinian Children of the Junction pp. 319-337

Omri Grinberg

Maps as Politics: Mapping the West Bank Barrier pp. 339-364

Christine Leuenberger

Implications of the Segregation Wall on the Two-state Solution pp. 365-380

Ahmad El-Atrash

Emancipation versus Desecuritization: Resistance and the Israeli Wall in Palestine pp. 381-394

Nadia Abu-Zahra, Philip Leech and Leah MacNeil

Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia: Non-State Perspectives pp. 395-396

Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra

The European Union and Peacebuilding: The Cross-Border Dimension pp. 397-398

Dorte Jagetić Andersen

The Cartographic State: Maps, Territory and the Origins of Sovereignty pp. 399-400

Rodrigo Bueno Lacy

Volume 31, issue 2, 2016

Introduction: Multiplication and Multiplicity—Transformations of Border Control pp. 145-149

Albert Kraler, Maegan Hendow and Ferruccio Pastore

Multi-layered Migration Deterrence and Technology in Spanish Maritime Border Management pp. 151-169

Dirk Godenau and Ana López-Sala

State-bound Visa Policies and Europeanized Practices. Comparing EU Visa Policy Implementation in Morocco pp. 171-186

Federica Infantino

A “21 Century Border”? Cooperative Border Controls in the US and EU after 9/11 pp. 187-202

Matthew Longo

Conflicting Interests in the Development of a Harmonized EU e-Passport pp. 203-218

Elin Palm

Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature pp. 219-234

Estela Schindel

Eurodac in Times of Bigness: The Power of Big Data within the Emerging European IT Agency pp. 235-249

Vassilis S. Tsianos and Brigitta Kuster

Unpacking the Schengen Visa Regime. A Study on Bureaucrats and Discretion in an Italian Consulate pp. 251-266

Francesca Zampagni

Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia pp. 267-268

Jeremy Smith

Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren’t Making Us Safer pp. 269-270

Kathleen Staudt

Volume 31, issue 1, 2016

Jagged Landscapes: Conceptualizing Borders and Boundaries in the History of Human Societies pp. 1-21

Eric Tagliacozzo

Border Multiplicities: At the Cross-Roads between Improvisation and Regulation in the Andes pp. 23-38

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

Debatable Peaks and Contested Valleys: Englishness and the Dolomite Landscape Scenery pp. 39-58

William Bainbridge

Building Rhetorical Theory through Discursively Constructed Borders pp. 59-72

Randall W. Monty and Alyssa G. Cavazos

The Non-gated Gated Community of Stapleton pp. 73-89

Huston J. Gibson and Jessica L. Canfield

The Relation of Drug Trafficking Fears and Cultural Identity to Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants in Five South Texas Communities pp. 91-105

Manuel Ramirez, Nanci L. Argueta, Yessenia Castro, Ricardo Perez and Darius B. Dawson

Setit-Humera: A Blister on Ethio–Sudanese Boundary Disputation pp. 107-122

Belete Belachew Yihun

Alterity, Security and Everyday Geopolitics at Israel's Border with Lebanon pp. 123-139

Ian Slesinger

Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands: Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics pp. 141-142

Thomas Ptak

Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border pp. 143-144

Bhumitra Chakma