Border Crossing

Odessa et les confins de l’Europe: un éclairage historique (Odessa and the frontier of Europe: a historical perspective)

by Stella Ghervas

published in Stella Ghervas & François Rosset (eds), "Lieux d’Europe. Mythes et limites" (Places of Europe: Myths and Limits), Paris, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2008, pp. 107-124.

Réactualisée par le récent débat sur l'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne et par la crise ukrainienne, la... more Réactualisée par le récent débat sur l'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne et par la crise ukrainienne, la question des confins de l'Europe apparaît de manière contrastée dans le cas d'une ville comme Odessa. Dès son origine, elle a été conçue comme une ville libre et ouverte tout en servant de capitale à la Nouvelle Russie. Construite à l'européenne par des architectes français, elle a vu d'emblée s'installer différentes communautés nationales, et Pouchkine a pu dire à juste titre qu'on y «respire l'Europe».

Néanmoins, Odessa reste d'un point de vue géographique «doublement périphérique» par rapport à la Russie et à l'Europe. Tout au long du XIXe siècle, on y «exile» les intellectuels exclus des capitales de l'Empire des tsars. La ville prospère, mais de Paris, Londres ou Berlin, elle paraît en marge de l'Europe urbaine et culturelle. En 1847, Balzac ne vit lui-même «de la frontière européenne à Odessa qu'un même champ de la Beauce». Le triomphe de la révolution bolchevique introduira une véritable coupure dans l'histoire de la ville et de ses relations avec l'Europe.

Par un jeu de miroirs, le cas d'une ville-carrefour comme Odessa, lieu emblématique d'une Europe multiculturelle et multinationale, dit quelque chose du sens multiple de l'Europe, témoigne de ses déchirements et de ses conflits intérieurs. Elle permet aussi de mieux cerner les contenus de la civilisation européenne et de préciser les contours du Vieux Continent.

The road: An ethnography of the Albanian-Greek cross-border motorway. In American Ethnologist vol 37

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

This article is an ethnographic study of a 29-kilometer stretch of cross-border highway located in South Albania and... more This article is an ethnographic study of a 29-kilometer stretch of cross-border highway located in South Albania and linking the city of Gjirokaster with the main checkpoint on the Albanian–Greek border. The road, its politics, and its poetics
constitute an ideal point of entry for an anthropological analysis of contemporary South Albania. The physical and social construction, uses, and perceptions of this road uniquely encapsulate three phenomena that dominate social life in postsocialist South Albania: the transition to a market economy, new nationalisms, and massive emigration (mainly to Greece). Taking this cross-border road section as my main ethnographic
point of reference, I suggest the fruitfulness of further discussion of the relationship between roads, narratives, and anthropology.

[roads, globalization, transnationalism, development, postsocialism, materiality, Albania]

Language crossing, cross-talk, and cross-disciplinarity in sociolinguistics

by Ben Rampton

Review of Imperial, by William T. Vollmann.

by Corey E. Andrews

Working-Class Notes (Spring 2010).

ʻTransborder’ Exchanges of People, Things and Representations: Revisiting the Conflict between Mahdist Sudan and Christian Ethiopia, 1885-1889

by Iris Seri-Hersch

International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43(1), May 2010, p. 1-26.

This article explores the intertwined history of late 19th century Sudan and Ethiopia from a transboundary... more This article explores the intertwined history of late 19th century Sudan and Ethiopia from a transboundary perspective. Focusing on a specific border zone in a period of growing tensions between the newly-established Mahdist state and the expanding Christian kingdom (1885-1889), the study analyzes how various patterns of commercial, military and diplomatic interactions shaped and were shaped by the Sudanese-Ethiopian conflict. That the ruling elites used religious arguments to legitimize military operations did not prevent intense flows of people, things and representations in the borderlands northwest of Lake Tana. A precise historical enquiry into the changing conceptualizations of the border, trade dynamics in goods and human beings, war booty practices, and diplomatic epistolary exchanges allows assessing the complex role of this portion of the border zone in the evolution of Sudanese-Ethiopian relations. The research is based on previously untapped Mahdist archives, European travel accounts, and scholarly works in Arabic, English, French and German. It is meant to contribute to the rapidly expanding field of border studies, as well as give new insights into the entangled history of African societies which retained their political sovereignty in the early years of the European scramble for Africa.

MEXICANIZATION OF THE USA-CANADA BORDER: INCREASING MILITARIZATION AND LACK OF FLEXIBILITY AND MOBILITY FOR BORDER CROSSING FOR CANADIAN CITIZENS GOING TO THE US, BY PETER ANDREAS

by Bernardo Mendez Lugo

Hamsuns koloniale nonsens

by Johan Schimanski

Schimanski, Johan. “Hamsuns koloniale nonsens”,  Tid og rom i Hamsuns prosa (II). Eds. Even Arntzen and Henning H. Wærp. Hamarøy: Hamsun-Selskapet, 2006. 81-116.

Sex, Borders and Identity Transvestism: Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men in the International Context of the American Southwest

by Brian Adams-Thies

Arizona Anthropologist Issue 10, May 2010

Border-Crossing as a Strategy of Daily Survival: The Odessa-Chisinau Elektrichka

by Abel Polese

The Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review

Ethnography of the Odessa-Chisinau elektrichka to explore how daily border crossing may help people to survive in... more Ethnography of the Odessa-Chisinau elektrichka to explore how daily border crossing may help people to survive in transitional states

Invaders, lIIegals and Aliens:' Imagining Exclusion in a 'White Australia

by catriona elder

Law Text Culture Vol 7 2003, pp. 221-250

'Diggers' waifs': desire, anxiety and immigration in post-1945 Australia

by catriona elder

Australian Historical Studies, No. 130, 2007

After the occupation of Japan by Australian servicemen in the 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of... more After the occupation of Japan by Australian servicemen in the 1940s and 1950s, there was a small group of Japanese-Australian children living in the Kure district where the troops had been stationed. In the late 1950s a discussion took place in Australia about what to do about these children. There were calls from members of the public that the children, as 'half' Australian, should be brought to this country. However, the
government's White Australia Policy made this impossible. This article uses the incident of the children to explore the tensions and contradictions that emerged in this period in
terms of what it meant to be Australian.

Reading Gender in Border-Crossing Narratives

by Johan Schimanski

Johan Schimanski. “Reading Gender in Border-Crossing Narratives”,  Gendering Border Studies. Eds. Jane Aaron, Henrice Altink and Chris Weedon. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010. 105-26.