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A SEMIA NNUA L N E W S LE T T E R VOL. 37 · ISSUE 1 · FALL 2016. La Frontera Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter Published by the ABS Secretariat. Design and Coding © Copyright 2016 All rights reserved. Highlights of This Issue Message from the President President Barraza recaps the past year and outlines the future developments for the association. Page 1 Editor: Jussi Laine New Officer ABS members voted for their 2nd Vice President who will take over the position of Vice President next April at the ABS Annual Meeting in San Francisco Page 4 MENSAJE DE LA P R E S I D E N TA / MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Estimados y estimadas integrantes de la ABS, Asumí la presidencia de la ABS al concluir la Conferencia Anual de abril 2016 en Reno, Nevada. Como presidenta electa tuve la honrosa tarea de organizar los t r a b a j o s conducentes a la conferencia del mismo año. Tal y como lo esperábamos el evento fue todo un éxito, ya que, como lo mencioné en el boletín anterior, nos acompañaron participantes de 22 países de América del Norte, América del Sur, Asia, África, Europa y Oceanía. Cada uno de las mesas y demás actividades anunciadas en el programa general de la WSSA fueron llevadas a cabo conforme a lo previsto. Aunado a ello, se dio la convivencia formal e informal entre colegas de diversas ABS Executive Secretariat - New Board Members ABS warmly welcomes three new board members! Page 5 Lifetime Achievement Award Prof. Paul Ganster recognized with ABS Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 ABS annual conference in Reno, Nevada. Book Awards Reece Jones & Corey Johnson (Eds) Placing the Border in Everyday Life has won the ABS Past Presidents’ Book Award! Annual Meeting CfP ABS invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels related to the study of borders for the 2017 annual conference Page 7 Pages 18-21 Page 6 instituciones, a partir de la cual surgieron contactos y acuerdos de reuniones, proyectos de investigación e intercambios de académicos y estudiantes de posgrado en un futuro próximo. Cabe destacar que en esta reunión participó un grupo importante de colegas provenientes de Centro y Sudamérica, particularmente de Cúcuta, Departamento de Norte de Santander, Colombia, quienes se integraron de manera muy activa y colaborativa en los trabajos de la ABS. Una de las tareas principales de la presidencia en turno es que la ABS continúe extendiendo su cobertura territorial—sus fronteras, por así decirlo— y su membresía. Para tal propósito, en el período que nos ocupa se han apoyado y se ha participado en diversos foros como los llevados a cabo en el “IV Encuentro Latinoamericano de Estudios Transfronterizos y de Desarrollo de Capacidades Humanas,” realizado los días 5, 6 y 7 de Octubre del presente año en la Ciudad de Cúcuta, Colombia. Este gran evento contó con la participación y apoyo de tres de las instituciones universitarias más importantes de la región como son la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, la Universidad de Pamplona, y la Universidad de Santander, así como de dos de las universidades más importantes a nivel latinoamericano—la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica y la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México por medio de su Centro de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Chiapas y la Frontera Sur—CIMSUR-UNAM. El Objetivo principal del encuentro fue promover la reflexión y el debate académico en torno a procesos de cooperación y configuración de identidades en regiones transfronterizas de América Latina con el propósito de establecer una agenda de investigación. Asimismo, se realizó y se participó en la ABS Europe Conference 2016: “Differences and Discontinuities in a Europe Without Borders,” que tuvo lugar del 4 al 7 de octubre de 2016, y que fue organizada por la Universidad de Luxemburgo en cooperación con la UniGR-Center for Border Studies (UniGR-CBS). El objetivo de la conferencia fue analizar la visión de una “Europa sin fronteras,” considerando los asuntos que se centran en la movilidad, la diversidad, la responsabilidad y el cambio desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar. Actualmente, dos miembros distinguidos de la ABS, Akihiro Iwashita, expresidente de Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland "1 L A la ABS 2015-2016 y Hyunjoo Naomi Chi de la Universidad de Hokkaido (Japan) están trabajando en la organización del primer seminario de la ABS en Tokio que se llevará a cabo el 24 de noviembre. Por otro lado, el 6 y 7 de marzo de 2017 se efectuará la Conferencia Internacional “Borders and Border Studies: The South Asian Perspective,” organizada por el Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la South Asian University, en New Delhi, India. ¡Les deseamos el mayor de los éxitos! Relacionado con lo anterior, se firmó el Acuerdo relativo a la organización y sede de la Segunda Conferencia Mundial de la ABS a llevar a cabo en Viena y Budapest del 10-14 de julio de 2018. El acuerdo fue signado por la Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos (ABS) y la Universidad de Viena. La conferencia se organizará en coordinación con la Facultad de Estudios Históricos y Culturales de la Universidad de Viena, la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad ELTE de Budapest y el Centro Europeo de Iniciativas Transfronterizas (CESCI) en Budapest. En este encuentro se MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT ELECT / MENSAJE DE LA PRESIDENTA ELECTA R O N T E R A 3 espera una nutrida concurrencia de Europa y del resto de los continentes, tal y como se presentó en el 2014 en Joensuu, Finlandia. Adicionalmente, la ABS dio un paso muy importante con la aprobación de los nuevos estatutos que ahora rigen el quehacer de la asociación. Dichos estatutos se encuentran disponibles en la página http:// absborderlands.org/. Este nuevo documento, derivado de la revisión del documento original, fue el resultado de un trabajo de varios años, coordinado por Christopher Brown, Ph.D. de la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México en Las Cruces. Un especial reconocimiento y un profundo agradecimiento a Chris por la ardua labor que llevó a cabo. La comunidad científica de la ABS continúa reafirmando su compromiso de estar a la vanguardia en el estudio de los cambios mundiales. Estos cambios han contribuido a que las fronteras sean cada vez más visibles y en muchos de los casos más rígidas; de ahí que su estudio y el compartir las distintas experiencias fronterizas se vuelva cada vez más fundamental. Los espacios de discusión que the world. The ABS has an incredible opportunity to serve as a major forum to facilitate deliberation and informed debates about the subjects that occupy now a central role in the global public sphere. The Association for Borderland Studies is expanding very rapidly and is a truly international and diverse space to discuss subjects that are of fundamental interest for the world’s society. All issues surrounding the concept and management of borders are crucial in today’s conversations at many levels in all regions of "2 F On November 8, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America. One of his main themes of campaign— and one that became extremely popular among his supporters since the beginning of the process —was the proposal to build a wall along the country’s entire southern border. That “big, beautiful wall” —as he called it — would allegedly protect the most powerful nation of the world from the alleged economic costs of irregular immigration and from potential foreign attacks coming from the south, and particularly from the hegemon’s neighboring country: Mexico. Trump and his supporters viewed ABS Executive Secretariat - 7 ( 1 ) se han ido construyendo y los resultados derivados lo confirman. Sin embargo, aún tenemos retos ineludibles, aparte de los académicos, como el de que nuestros encuentros/resultados se traduzcan en acciones públicas, es decir, que nuestro trabajo trascienda y llegue a quienes toman decisiones. Esto, sin duda requiere de un esfuerzo adicional, sobre todo en aquellas fronteras cuyos gobiernos muestran un desconocimiento de lo que significa la oportunidad de la convivencia fronteriza. Reitero mi propio compromiso con esta misión y los exhorto a trabajar en ello. Saludos cordiales, Dra. Patricia Barraza Presidenta de la ABS 2016-2017 Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez a potential direct threat against their nation that justified, according to them, the adoption of extreme measures to close the country’s borders. Hence, for the first time in U.S. history, the presidential campaign centered on an actual discussion about borders, migration and Mexico. The discussion about closing borders and building walls (virtual or real) does not exclusively takes place in the United States at present. Actually, there has been a recent notable effort to reinstate borders in the world. In the past few years, we have observed the resurgence of physical borders that are reminiscent of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall or the Great Wall of China. At the same time, ideological borders are being built at many levels and in different parts of the globe. Examples of these trends are: the emergence of strong nationalist movements in Europe, and some Asian nations; the development of the U.S. presidential campaign; Brexit; the rise of right-wing parties in Europe and the United States; the renewed rivalry between China, Russia and the United States; and the humanitarian crises of Western Asian war refugees, and African and Central American refugees escaping from violence and poverty. The emergence of multiple walls and the rebordering process going on in Europe —and undermining the very idea of the European Union — is emblematic in this regard. Such trends are totally opposite to the forces of globalization that seemed to be unstoppable at the end of last century. They also appear to be incompatible with hybrid identities, economic prosperity, and human liberty. Diverse global organizations like the ABS will have a fundamental Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) role in providing a free and open space to discuss these matters and come up with ideas to reverse these negative trends. This is what the ABS is about. This coming term, I am particularly interested in promoting further diversity within the organization, by opening spaces for more women and underrepresented groups and countries. I will also promote a more active role of the ABS in the global debates about the subjects that are natural to the association and are key in the discussion that takes place in the public sphere today. There seems to be a case for open borders in search for greater prosperity, peace and freedom in the world. Humanity faces today the global challenge of whether the different nations should be building bridges or walls. We invite you to be part of an effort to discuss these key global issues. In the present context, our association will organize its 2017 annual conference and invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels that directly address these issues and focus on the theme: “Bridges or Walls? The Case for Open Borders in the XXI Century”. We also invite you to attend plenary sessions on the following topics: 1) Brexit and the “rebordering” process in Europe; 2) the 2016 U.S. presidential election and “challenges” to U.S. national identity; 3) new walls and new nationalisms; and 4) borders and refugees. We hope to see you in mid-April in San Francisco. Maybe we could then make then a case for open borders to promote peace, development and justice in a world that has been going through difficult times. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, UTRGV Save the Date Association for Borderland Studies II World Conference Vienna / Budapest 10-14 July 2018 ‘Historical and Virtual Borders’ ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland "3 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) New Officer Recently, ABS members voted for their Second Vice President who will take over the position of Vice President in April 2017 at the ABS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This year, the only legitimate candidate for the open position was Professor Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria, Canada. His candidacy was approved by the Board of Directors, and the nomination approved by the membership. Out of the 72 votes cast, 70 supported Prof. Brunet-Jailly’s nomination, one opposed it, and one abstained. The final nomination has been approved by the President of the ABS, Dra. Patricia Barraza. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Bio Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence. He studied Law and Political Science at Paris IVSorbonne and for a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. The author of about 90 articles and chapters, and 8 books and special issues of scholarly journals in urban and border studies, his most recent publication includes an Encyclopaedia of Border Disputes (2015). Currently, he is the research ‘lead’ (principal investigator) for Borders In Globalization, a research program funded by the Social Science "4 and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013-19), that brings together 30 university research centres in 20 countries and nearly 100 students to do research on borders (http:// www.biglobalization.org). He is the chief editor of the Journal of Borderland Studies (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) and of the Canadian American Public Policy, a series that publishes small books (Universities of Maine, USA & Victoria, BC, Canada. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame (US), Xiamen (China), Grenoble and Lille (France), Mons/Louvain (Belgium), Lund (Sweden), Iceland (Iceland). School of Public Administration, (Faculty of Human and Social Development, PO Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W2Y2Tel: 250 721 6418, Fax: 250 721 8844) Vision Statement As president of the ABS, I would like to work on two areas that are important to the Association today: (1) growing of the number of students that are attending the conference - I would like to make sure the ABS has ongoing offering of funding to bring students and reward best works presented at the conference thereafter. (2) Also I would like to work with colleagues to expand the now called ‘chapters’ in various areas of the world – in brief this action would be to engage in ABS Executive Secretariat - discussions with colleagues around the world so that academic activities really allow for broad world-wide discussions rather than too many smaller and overlapping – competing – chapters. If elected as conference chair for the 2019 conference in San Diego, I would like to have the full support of the WSSA/ABS Latin American and in particular Mexican communities to organize and help bring the ABS to Colef where possibly Sergio Pena and Cesar Fuentes could host a whole day of academic debates and visit of their beautiful region, also, I would endeavour to bring many more students to the ABS by applying for a grant to fund travel and bring at the least 20 additional students from the Americas to our annual ‘Legacy’ Conference. My goal will also be to bring to the ABS conference a significant number of colleagues whom around the world that have worked on the Borders In Globalization research program; 2018-19 are the last few months of that research program, and I would like to showcase the results at the ABS as a way to return to the ABS what the ABS has done for me and our team over many years of outstanding collegiality – indeed I am grateful to the ABS community and think that the least I can do is bring the BIG network back ‘home’ for a celebration on that last year of research. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) ABS Welcomes New Board Members Dr. Chiara Brambilla Dr. Tony Payan University of Bergamo, Italy Baker Institute /Rice /UAJC Dra. Lya Margarita Niño Contreras UABC, Mexicali, México Chiara Brambilla, PhD in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity, is Research Fellow in Anthropology and Geography at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Her research focuses on anthropology, critical geopolitics and the epistemology of borders; the Mediterranean border-migration nexus; borders in Africa; colonialism and post-colonialism. She has published extensively in Italian and international journals and volumes. She has edited, with J. Laine, J. Scott and G. Bocchi, the volume Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making (2015 in the Border Regions Series with Ashgate). She has been the scientific responsible, with G. Bocchi, for the research work of the Centre for Research on Complexity of the University of Bergamo within the EU FP7 project EUBORDERSCAPES (2012/2016). She is Associate member of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR), Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands; member of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) and of the African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE). The nomination of the three new Board Members was headed by Francisco LaraValencia, Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University ABS Executive Secretariat - Tony Payan, Ph.D., is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Mexico Center at the Baker Institute. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Rice University and a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Between 2001 and 2015, Payan was a professor of political science at The University of Texas at El Paso. Lya Niño is full time professor and research in the Instituto de Investigaciones sociales at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in Mexicali, Mexico. Lya is a Level II member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico, and is the coordinator of the Academic Cluster on Social Sciences (UABC-CA-108). She engages in a range of research activities related primarily to the U.S. – Mexico border, particularly in the areas of ethnic Payan’s research focuses primarily on border migration, power, and empowerment. Currently, studies, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border. His she is the principal investigator in the projects work includes studies of border governance, “Social practices of transborder women in border flows and immigration, as well as border Mexicali-Calexico” and “Transversality of gender security and organized crime. Payan has authored perspectives in the UABC campus”. Lya obtained two books, “Cops, Soldiers and Diplomats: her doctoral degree in Social Studies from the Understanding Agency Behavior in the War on consortium CIAD-UABC-UNISON, where she Drugs” and “The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: studied social capital and immigration of Drugs, Immigration and Homeland indigenous women in a comparative context. Security” (2006 and 2016 editions). He is also Lya Niño es profesora e investigadora de tiempo author of several book chapters and journal completo en el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de publications. Payan received a doctorate degree la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in international relations from Georgetown en Mexicali, México. Lya es miembro del Sistema University in 2001. Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) Nivel II, y líder del Payan has served on several boards, including the Cuerpo Académico Estudios Sociales (UABCCamino Real Regional Mobility Authority in El CA-108). Ella participa en una variedad de actividades Paso, Texas, and the Plan Estratégico de Juárez in de investigación relacionados principalmente a la Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He is a member of the frontera México-Estados Unidos, particularmente en Greater Houston Partnership's Immigration Task las áreas migración étnica, poder, y empoderamiento. Force and the Mexico Energy Task Force. He also Actualmente es la investigadora principal de los served as president of the Association of proyectos “Prácticas sociales de mujeres Borderlands Studies between 2009 and 2010. transfronterizas, el caso Mexicali- Calexico” y “Transversalidad de la perspectiva de género en la UABC”. Lya obtuvo su doctorado en estudios sociales del consorcio interuniversitario CIAD-UABCUNISON, donde ella estudio el capital social y la migración de mujeres indígenas desde una perspectiva comparativa. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland "5 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) ABS 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Prof. Paul Ganster Paul Ganster, director of San Diego State University’s Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, was recognized by the Association of Borderlands Studies (ABS) with its Lifetime Achievement Award at its 2016 Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada. Ganster is an internationally recognized border scholar, author of several dozen publications about the U.S.-Mexico border area, and an advocate of systematic studies of border regions across the globe. He has served as president of ABS and co-editor of the Journal of Borderland Studies. During 32 years as an SDSU faculty member, Ganster has generated more than $15 million in funding for science and policy research in the U.S.-Mexico border region. He is currently chair of Good Neighbor Environmental, a federal panel that advises the president and Congress on border environmental issues. Ganster is also chair of the Committee on Binational Regional Opportunities, a group that advises the San Diego Association of Governments on border issues. Over the course of his career, he has been a Fulbright Scholar in Costa Rica and a visiting faculty Akihiro Iwashita Victor Konrad 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Dr. Paul Ganster for his many years of dedicated service and major contributions to the Association for Borderlands Studies Dr. Akihiro Iwashita President "6 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) PROJECT REPORT Past Presidents’ Book Award 2016 The Association of Borderlands Studies (ABS) Past SILVER AWARD: Beatriz de la Garza Presidents’ Book Award were announced during From the Republic of the Rio Grande the association’s 2016 Annual Meeting organized University of Texas Press, 2013 in, Reno, Nevada, USA on April 13-16, 2016. The 2016 awards were granted as follows: BRONZE AWARD: Martin Gainsborough (Ed.) On the Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region Routledge, 2009 GOLD AWARD: Reece Jones & Corey Johnson (Eds) Placing the Border in Everyday Life Ashgate/Routledge, 2014. Placing the Border in Everyday Life” finally is the most theoretically focused book. It explores many different appearances of the border (in prisons, at the body, within a single city, etc.). It is also truly global in its geographic scope, using examples from Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia. It explains how the border bears down on life everywhere. In that sense it illustrates the increasing blurring of the border and the vernacularisation of the border. There is strong focus on non-traditional actors enact their border, at and near to the border as well as away from the border. Notwithstanding the strong theoretical framework, the different chapters do sometimes have a little difficulty to incorporate and develop to the full extent the theoretical concepts as introduced by the editors. But this is maybe all the more illustrating the multitude of perspectives, thematically, geographically and conceptually, that are exercised in our discipline. According to the committee it is a fascinating, fantastic read, providing valuable academic reflections on borders. ABS Executive Secretariat - "The Republic of the Rio Grande" is a thoroughly interesting portrayal of life on the TexasNortheastern Mexico border from the mid-1700s until the mid-1900s. This was a period when Mexico and the US slowly began to build their borders. It describes the adjustment of communities on both sides of the new dividing line. The book distinguishes itself clearly as a sort of family history of the author and it is based on very personal accounts of what life was like in that particular place and time when people started to build borders and adjust their lives. In that sense it is also methodologically very interesting because of its original archive research. It is a journey by the author into her past in ways that is rarely seen in such a clear and powerful way. “On the borders of State Power” is an exploration of many of the dynamics of state borders in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is a rich exploration of border life that goes from the mid-1800s to today, with examples ranging from the role of women and local residents under different border regimes to the efforts on exploiting border differences and to construct and rebuild border communities. It contains several interesting reflections on precolonial borders as well as a documentation of Indigenous land regimes. It deals with such issues as gender, forced borders, divided territories, displaced peoples, and policing and administering the borderlines. The book is very strong in an empirical sense but would have gained a little from a more pronounced theoretical framework. It nevertheless questions the nature of borders in the Mekong area and provides much ground for thinking. The ABS Past Presidents’ Book Award is presented to any published monographic (including edited) book in the social and natural sciences, and humanities involving original research on borders, borderlands and border regions, and reviewed in the Journal of Borderlands Studies. The Gold Award consists of a plaque, a certificate and a year’s free membership in ABS. Also, the winner of the 2016 Gold Award will chair the ABS book award committee for 2017 and be the ABS guest and keynote speaker at the annual meeting in San Francisco, CA. The 2016 Award Committee consisted of Dr. Martin van der Velde (Chair) of Radboud University Nijmegen, Tero and Kaisu Mustonen, the winners of last year’s gold award, Naomi Chi from Hokkaido University in Sapporo &Tony Payan from Rice University in Houston Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland "7 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Of Interest... DASTI Workshop on Transnational Extremist Organizations “Borders of memory: national commemoration in East Asia” Association of Borderlands Studies Japan Chapter Seminar On 19-20 September 2016, Associate Professor Olivier Walther (University of Southern Denmark) and Professor William F.S. Miles (Northeastern University) organized an international workshop on transnational extremist organizations at Rutgers University. Funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI), the workshop brought together 15 international experts from Denmark, the United States and Canada. The workshop explored how borders affect the spatial diffusion of radical groups, how transnational groups disrupt state sovereignty, how could social and spatial analysis contribute to disrupt extremist organizations, and how can states and regional organizations respond to transnational threats. The papers presented at the workshop will be published as an edited book with Routledge. More information on the workshop is available at: http://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/ institutter_centre/c_borderregionstudies/ events/dasti+workshop Sponsored by the War Memoryscapes in Asia Project (WARMAP), British Association of Japanese Studies, Center for Asia-Pacific Future Studies and Kyushu University Border Studies. Time and Date: 14:00-17:00PM, November 27, 2016 Kyushu University, Nishijin Plaza, Fukuoka December 17-18, 2016 http://cafs.kyushu-u.ac.jp/borders/events/ 1011.html Global Reporting Centre's "Strangers at Home" anthology documentary can be found at: http://strangers.globalreportingcentre.org/ the Canadian at the Institute for Humanities at Simon Fraser University can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=RlOqfswhATc Venue: Hokkaido University Tokyo Office Session 1: Prospects and Challenges to SinoRussian Relations (in English) Session 2: Border Control and Immigration Policy in Japan (in Japanese) The Centre for Cross Border Studies Annual Conference Thursday 23rd – Friday 24th February 2017 Building and maintaining relationships: within, across and beyond these islands after the Referendum Doctoral candidate in Border Studies (application by 15 January 2017) University of Luxembourg, UniGR-Center for Border Studies. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of cultural science oriented Border Studies (kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies) integrating migration/mobility issues, a praxeological approach and related to European border regions. More information: http://emea3.mrted.ly/ 18hhw Professor Saleem H. Ali Keynote Professor Saleem H. Ali’s keynote lecture on rivers and borders at the International Rivers Symposium in New Delhi, September 12, 2016 is available on Vimeo for viewing: https://vimeo.com/186215674 "8 Feminist Geography: insides and outsides of feminism 2nd Conference May 18-20, 2017, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the theme being the insides and outsides of feminism. The website is: feministgeography.org ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) 4-7 OCTOBER 2016 UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG Christian Wille and Birte Nienaber WWW.ABSEUROPE2016.EU The Association for Borderlands Studies Europe Conference 2016 was held at the University of Luxembourg from 4-7 October, organised in conjunction with the UniGR-Center for Border Studies. The guiding topic of ‘Differences and Discontinuities in a “Europe without borders”’ was selected in 2014, but has not become any less relevant: the political and social events of recent years have pushed aside the idea of a Europe without borders and prompted a border revival. These are not always territorial borders, but also (or even primarily) include invisible borders which operate as economic, social or cultural differences and discontinuities. The two keynote speakers Anne-Laure Szary (Grenoble-Alpes University) and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (University of Southampton) examined the significance of non-territorial borders in particular and highlighted the role played by scientists and academics in investigating social phenomena. explore the border areas between Luxembourg and Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, and Germany and France. A particular highlight was the conference dinner, part of a boat tour within the border triangle around the famous Luxembourg village of Schengen. The work achieved was summarised by the participants in the concluding panel. They highlighted the following points as key to the further development of border studies: Focus on non-territorial borders: The categories of difference and discontinuity also enable to investigate border demarcation processes in everyday cultural research contexts and allow a greater depth of complexity. However, a focus on nonterritorial borders does not supersede the territorial dimension, as differences and discontinuities still have a constant relationship with national and spatial borders. Greater awareness of non-territorial borders helps to create a better understanding of border demarcation processes, vital given the gradual divergences anticipated in Europe. Further opening to other disciplines: Greater consideration of non-territorial borders requires border studies to open up further to other disciplines. This exchange and dialogue should in particular be with disciplines which primarily deal with the phenomenon of ‘in-between’ and already have suitable conceptual and investigatory tools. During the four-day conference, approximately 100 participants discussed borders, differences and discontinuities in their various manifestations across a total of 18 paper sessions, structured around four key topics: mobility and multilocality, multilingualism and diversity, growth and sustainability, and instability and change. The programme also included four excursions, with experts taking conference participants to ABS Executive Secretariat - Decentration of borders: The categories of difference and discontinuity reinforce the process perspective involved in investigating border demarcations and border relativisations. Rather than allowing the border to be a subject, they instead enable it to be understood and examined as a multidisciplinary process which materialises in the form of visible borders. This altered analytical perspective allows border studies to also explore border demarcations and border relativisations within national societies. Comparative perspective and stronger theoretical foundation: The field of border studies is characterised by what has now become an unmanageable number of empirical studies in various different spatial study contexts. In the future, the knowledge thus attained should be subject to greater interconnection from a comparative perspective, in order to gain a better understanding of border demarcations and border relativisations. In addition, this seems to offer the possibility of generating further theoretical foundations and thus positioning border studies on a solid theoretical base. Strengthening critical perspectives: Taking a critical perspective on the investigation of border demarcation processes is vital, in particular given current events in Europe. This perspective involves considering the role of scientists and academics in the research process and the communication of research findings. It also relates to the development of research questions, which should demonstrate greater sensitivity to the balance of power as well as to the exploitation of (constructed) differences and discontinuities. The Association for Borderlands Studies’ next Europe Conference will form part of the ABS World Conference 2018 in Vienna/Budapest. > Video clip documenting the conference: http://bit.ly/2eZCNyT Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland "9 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) MIGRATION AND BORDERS IN CHINA The 2nd International Conference of Political Geography on Migration and Borders Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China / August 27-30, 2016 — Hu Zhiding, Yunnan Normal University and Victor Konrad, Carleton University The 2016 International Geographical Congress in Beijing was preceded and followed by several specialty conferences and workshops throughout China. One of these meetings focused on Migration and Borders, and engaged mainly geographers from China and abroad in a conference designed to develop a dialogue on migration and borders between specialists in both migration and border studies. Furthermore, the conference focused on migration and borders research in Southeast Asia while it gained perspective from both borders and migration research in other world regions. Participants were selected through a call for participation distributed widely in 2015. Foreign and Chinese presentations were paired in both plenary and concurrent sessions beginning in the evening of August 27 and ending after a field excursion on August 29. The result was a convivial and stimulating meeting of 30 Chinese and 15 international participants, including a "10 representation of leaders in the two fields, emerging scholars and graduate students. The impact promises to be greater collaboration and joint research among border and migration specialists, and between Chinese and international partners. On August 27, the Migration and Borders conference opened with welcoming comments from Professors WU Youde and LUO Huasong of Yunnan Normal University, and Victor Konrad of Carleton University. Professor Rachel Silvey delivered an inspiring keynote address on “Borders Across Scales: Migrant Labour and the Transnational City” to begin the conference. Spirited dialogue and discussion were led by Professor Ian Baird (University of Wisconsin, Madison). An opening reception and dinner at the conference hotel on the Yunnan Normal University campus concluded the first day of the meeting. August 28 was a very full day of plenary and concurrent sessions engaging almost all the conference participants in roles of presenting papers, chairing sessions and leading off discussion and dialogue. The ABS Executive Secretariat - opening plenary session on International Perspectives on Migration and Borders featured six presentations by Chinese and international leaders in the fields. Professor LUO Huasong examined the geopolitical risks of Chinese hydro-electric development in Myanmar; Professor Emmanuel BrunetJailly (University of Victoria) established an interdisciplinary perspective on migration and borders in an era of globalization; Professor ZHOU Shangyi (Beijing Normal University) explored the identity of the Korean Chinese living out of China; Professor James Scott (University of Eastern Finland) evaluated “Borders, Migration and Ontological Security”; Professor WANG Limao (Chinese Academy of Sciences) addressed the “South China Sea Disputes and China’s Energy Security”; and Professor WU Dianting (Beijing Normal University) offered a “Model of Control Power of Foreign Affairs and its Application in China”. Professor Victor Konrad presented a paper on “Geopolitical and Geovisualization Challenge” for Professor Stanley Brunn (University of Kentucky) who was unable to attend. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A Professor Vladimir Kolosov (Russian Academy of Sciences) provided comments and led the dialogue and discussion. Concurrent sessions followed on Migration and Security, Borders, Migration and Development, Migration and Borders of China, and India’s Borders. The 25 papers presented in these sessions offered a rich array of case studies and conceptual approaches, focused mainly on Asia but also integrating selected European and North American perspectives. The papers are listed in Table 1 along with the presentations of keynote and plenary speakers. Please contact the authors directly by email for more information. The concurrent sessions were chaired by Professors CHENG Yang (Beijing Normal University), GE Yuejing (Beijing Normal University), ZHOU Shangyi (Beijing Normal University), Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore), and SONG Tao (Chinese Academy of Sciences). Discussants were Jussi Laine (University of Eastern Finland), Ian Baird (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Ted Boyle (Kyushu University), and Randy Widdis (University of Regina). Professor Rachel Silvey chaired the plenary session on “Migration and Borders—A new world order?” Presentations included: Professor Vladimir Kolosov “On a wrong side of the border: geopolitical shifts, border regimes and migrations in the Post-Soviet space”; Professor Martin van der Velde (Radboud University) “People, Borders, Trajectories: Approaches to Migration and Borders”; and Professor Randy Widdis “The Spatial Grammar of Migration”. Professor Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly led the dialogue and discussion. Professor Brenda Yeoh provided the closing keynote: “Living across borders: Time, temporalities and transnational families”. The presentation was an ideal complement to the opening keynote by Rachel Silvey, and a sensitive and grounded focus on the impact of living across borders in globalization. Professor Martin van der Velde chaired the closing keynote and Professor James Scott served as discussant for the session. Conference Presentations (in order of presentation) Rachel Silvey “Borders across scales: Migrant labor and the transnational city” LUO Huasong “The geopolitical risks of overseas major project” ABS Executive Secretariat - F R O N T E R A 3 Stanley Brunn “A geopolitical and geovisualization challenge” Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly “Migration and borders in globalization: an interdisciplinary perspective” ZHOU Shangyi “The identity of the Korean Chinese living out of China” James Scott “Borders, migration and ontological security” WANG Limao “South China Sea disputes and China’s energy security” WU Dianting “Model of control power of foreign affairs and its application in China” Edward Boyle “Local concerns, regional visions, national security: towards a multiscale theory of borders in Asia” XIONG Liran “The cross-border flow of Chinese labor population along the SinoMyanmar border” LIANG Haiyan “Study on the influence of population security from illegal cross-border marriage in Dian-Gui border regions” HONG Juhua “Energy security research from the perspective of inter-subjectivity and the construction of the ‘One Belt and One Road’ policy” LIU Yuli “The dynamics of Sino-India energy security: an analysis of petroleum security through a power cycle lens” NAN Ying “Economic and trade network of port cities and border region cooperation between China and DPRK” LI Hong “Does border region become more livable? The case of Guangxi” HU Zhiding “Border, migration and regional development differentiation: take the Hekou port for example” SONG Tao “China’s direct investment and the future research on Burma” WANG Yu “One country, two systems: the water, food and people that flow across Mainland-Hong Kong boundaries” Ian Baird and LI Cansong “Different scales of governance along the ChinaMyanmar border: considering varied policies and practices” Victor Konrad, HU Zhiding and LIU Yuli “Kunming as borderlands metropolis: Economic focus, development hub, and migration pole” YANG Zaiyue “Spatial distribution characteristics of Kokang refugees under the conflict of north Myanmar in 2015” LI Cansong “Land cover changes and their driving forces in Myanmar based on global land 30, 2000-2010” 7 ( 1 ) LIAO Yahui “the formation, present situation and development of the Burma Kokang ethnic group” Jussi Laine “Migration and the changing nature of European borders” GU Jiarong “Taphin people’s culture spirit: the studying of Yao people’s social construction and model along the north border area in Yietnam” HE Youlin “the progress of the cross-border economic cooperation zone of China MohanLao Moding” LI Yinhe “Transnational migration of Korean Chinese between Northeast China and neighboring states” MA Teng “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and economic containment: a comparison of China and Vietnam” GAO Dashuai “study on the development model of urban tourism in Yunnan border ports” Dhananjay Tripathi “Borders for political bargain” Case study of the India-Nepal borders during the recent Madhesi Movement” Jasnea Sarma“The India-Myanmar borderlands: Narrating strategic transformations and the politics of ethnic and identity delusions in forgotten geographies” Mirza Zulifiqur Rahman“India’s Look East Policy and Act East Engagement: Opening the Stilwell Road” CONG Xiao Nan“the potential impact of Arctic northeast route on the global economy base on CGE model” ZHAO Yabo “The influence of currencypolitics and a path of ascension about Renminibi” XIONG Chenran “the geopolitical characteristics of South Asia under the lead of India and its enlightenment to china” Vladimir Kolosov “On a wrong side of the border: geopolitical shifts, border regimes and migrations in the Post-Soviet space” Martin van der Velde “People, borders, trajectories: Approaches to migration and borders” Randy Widdis “The spatial grammar of migration” Brenda Yeoh “Living across borders: Time, temporalities and transnational families” Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 1 " 1 L A After the intensive presentation and discussion schedule of August 28, the following day began at a more leisurely pace with a field trip to the Yunnan Nationalities Village, where participants were introduced to the diversity and complexity of ethnicity and migration in the borderlands of Yunnan Province. The day was completed with one final session. This roundtable discussion featured brief comments by Rachel Silvey, Brenda Yeoh, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, James Scott, LUO Huasong, WANG Limao, WU Dianting, GE Yuejing and LI Hong. A lively discussion followed for more than an hour before closing comments and thanks were offered by Professor ZHANG Tianming (Yunnan Normal University). F R O N T E R A 3 • Time/Space compression has contributed to precariousness and permanent temporariness in migration across borders. • Migrations transcend barriers as diasporas become global networks with attendant proliferation and complication of securitization and fragmentation processes. • Feminization of labor migration has led to the transformation of family and the establishment of transnational families. • Commercialization of migration and commercialization of borders adds to the cost and toll of both migration and borders. • Temporalities contribute to a new During the final session, a list of characterization of global migration and observations and conclusions was assembled borders. to guide further discussion and research collaboration in work on the intersection of • Information technology enables linkage migration and borders. This compilation is and sustainability in diasporic not meant to be a finite research agenda but communities and also becomes an agent of rather a set of guidelines for continued control and regulation at borders. dialogue. Since most conference participants contributed to this roundtable conversation, • Borders don’t solve migration problems yet the following ideas are not attributed to a focus on the nexus of migrations and specific individuals. The points are not listed borders enables social, cultural and in any specific order of importance. political un-layering and analysis of this complex intersection. • The confluence of migration and borders may not herald a new world order but it is • The nexus of migration and borders evident that a major shift is taking place as provides a continuum for studying borders both migration and borders grow and and migrations within countries as well as expand. at the edges of nation-states, and this is critical when exploring borders in • Both migration studies and border studies globalization. are experiencing paradigm shifts as old ideas vie with new ideas of society, • Study of migration and borders is at the territory, motion, scale and other heart of developing a geopolitics of peace fundamental concepts. and stability, and formulating global and local (glocal) collaboration • Eurocentric views of migration and networks. borders have been over-theorized and more theorization is welcome from other world • Collaboration and linkage of research regions including Asia. in migration and borders gains from sustained engagement with micro• Commonalities prevail worldwide in both cases and their situation and migration and bordering processes because connection within theoretical frameworks both are inherently social; thematics are shared by international teams of consistent across continents thus allowing researchers. replication of findings. • The recent attention to borders of China, • Migration has moved beyond territory and the emergence of cross-border rendering the migration/border migration, identify China as an ideal relationship more complex than previously laboratory for research on migration and conceived. borders. This research opportunity extends to all aspects of migration and borders, "12 ABS Executive Secretariat - 7 ( 1 ) and it may engage a new generation of scholars in China and abroad. One of the most significant outcomes of this conference was the agreement among participants to develop partnerships and to initiate collaborative projects. Prominent among these was the engagement of both Beijing Normal University and Yunnan Normal University as international partners in the Borders in Globalization Project. In addition to this extensive partnership agreement, numerous collaborations between individual scholars emerged from this meeting. The future for migration and borders research, and specifically the prospect for research partnerships between Chinese and international scholars, is bright indeed. The conference was hosted by the Yunnan Normal University Collaborative Innovation Center for Geopolitical Setting of Southwest China and Borderland Development. Also involved in organization of the meeting were Beijing Normal University, Sun Yat-sen University, Carleton University, and the Borders in Globalization Project. The organizing Committee President was Dadao Lu, the executive included Huasong Luo, Yuejing Ge, Victor Konrad, Martin van der Velde, Jussi Laine, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and Virginie Mamadouh, and the administrative team was led by Zhiding Hu. Support was provided by the IGU Commission on Political Geography, Geographical Society of China, Geographical Society of Yunnan Province, and the Association of Borderlands Studies. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Report on “The Second International Conference of Political Geography on Migration and Borders, 2016” Hosted by: Yunnan Normal University, Beijing Normal University, Sun-Yat Sen University & Carleton University - Kunming, China, 27-30 August 2016 — Edward Boyle, CASF, Kyushu University In late August 2016, Yunnan Normal University in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming welcomed a number of Chinese and foreign participants to a conference on Migration and Borders. The majority of those in attendance were geographers, many of whom had also attended the International Geographical Congress in Beijing the previous week, but they also included those like the current author who had also managed to gain admittance. The goal of the conference was to seek to bring the two main themes of borders and migration into dialogue, and see if there were new ways by which these vital issues in the contemporary world could be made to speak to one another The evening of the August 27 saw the opening keynote address by Rachel Silvey (University of Toronto), who’s initial work on rural-to-urban migration within Indonesia has subsequently followed these migrants overseas, where she examines the frequently precarious and exploited situations in which they end up. The prevalence of this migration and its absolute increase appears to be reproducing and intensifying, rather than mitigating, existing inequalities, also apparent in the manner in which restrictive immigration policies merely serve to fuel illegal migration. The centrality of borders in demarcating space and justifying their maintenance was made readily apparent. The following day saw an opening plenary session that sought to broaden the terms on which the debate was held, with presentations ranging from great power competition to the current situation within a stretched European Union. Participants then divided into a number of concurrent sessions. KUBS member Edward Boyle spoke first in the session on ‘Migration and Security’, giving a paper entitled “Local concerns, regional visions, national security: towards a multi-scale theory of borders in Asia” that utilized the Indian ABS Executive Secretariat - Northeast as a means to attempt to grapple with larger questions of how to scale our understandings of borders. Also noteworthy was the preponderance of papers that interpreted ‘security’ through the rubric of energy. Valuable commentary was provided by Jussi Laine (University of Eastern Finland). After lunch saw another round of concurrent sessions, with particularly interesting papers from Ian Baird (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Victor Konrad (Carleton University) detailing the transformations in borderland governance occurring within Yunnan itself, along China’s borders with its neighbors. Two further papers in the session, by Yang Zaiyue (Yunnan Normal University) and Liao Yahui (Yunnan University), provided the historical background to the presence of the Kokangs in Myanmar and their recent (2015) seeking refuge in China due to conflict occurring across the border. Finally, Li Cansong examined changing land use patterns in Myanmar in a presentation that seemed to suggest that aspects of James Scott’s famous ‘zomia’ have not yet quite gone away. Mention must also be made of a panel largely made up of papers on India, with the papers read by Mirza Zulfiqir Rahman (IIT Guwahati) and Jasnea Sarma (National University of Singapore) being both on Northeast India and thus of particular interest to this author, who’s research in the region was only possible in the first place through the good offices of Mirza. The three of us reviewed the possibilities for further work in the region, with a research trip being planned for January. The concluding plenary of the day asked the question whether ‘Migration and Borders – A New World Order?’. Three shorter presentations by Vladimir Kolosov (Russian Academy of Sciences), Martin van der Velde (Radboud University) and Randy Widdis (University of Regina) sought to provide some first steps towards answering that question, offering between them a more global and historically-focused appreciation of the complexities involved in answering such a question. The final plenary by Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) subsequently shrank the discussion geographically, focusing on the experiences of migrant domestic workers in Singapore as well as the social changes that both triggered and were brought about by their expanding importation. The transformation of the quintessentially global city being brought about through issues of borders and migration acting in concert both served to emphasize the multiple scales at which we see such aspects occurring as well as the necessity of getting a better grasp on the social processes both informing and resulting from such transformations. This was the crux of the question mark sat behind notions of a ‘World Order’. Following a field trip to the Yunnan Nationalities Villages on the morning of the 29th, a further attempt was made to get to grips with this question in the final Roundtable Discussion that afternoon. A number of issues raised during the workshop were made explicit, including the feminization and commercialization of migration as an industry, the twin phenomena of migration without moving and movement without migration, and the resulting fragmentation of political space that appears to be encouraging its more extensive securitization. Note was also made of the methodological contrast between the positivism of the Chinese scholars versus the anthropological or postmodernist influences that were visible among most of the foreign participants. This contrast only served to make the need for cooperation all the more obvious, and this workshop was a valuable step in that direction. It remains for this participant to thank the organizers, and Victor Konrad in particular, for the opportunity to take part. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 1 " 3 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) The United Borderlands Project — Brian Moffatt Everything has to start somewhere.... near forgotten Battle of Degsaston, where I am 72 yrs old, the first half of my life Aethelfrith of was spent in England. The second half, Northumbria defeated just on the North side of the Anglo Aedan mac Gabron of Scottish Border Line. Half of my Dal Riata so decisively ancestry is English, and the other half is that at one blow, he checked Scottish. the expansion of the Scots by around two hundred years, and I am a Borderer.... by descent, by location, and.... by choice. I write poetry, novels, and thus allowed the flowering of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of “blog” on the Borders, but I fear that the Northumbria, a kingdom which later in “Borderer” is a dying breed. the 7th century occupied all of the eastern When I moved here around 37 yrs ago, if one seaboard from Edinburgh to York, and asked about anyones Nationality, the reply extended as far west in places as the Irish was almost invariably “Borderer” first, and sea. English or Scottish a long way second. Because we live far from London, and a long But Anglo Saxon peace did not last, and over the centuries, the Borderlands were way from the minds of those politicians up devastated by waves of invaders, Vikings, there in Edinburgh, and perhaps it has Normans, and the opposing armies of the always been that way. Wars of Independence, and the exact Landscape dictates history, and the origins position of the Borderline varied over those of the Anglo Scottish Border line was centuries, eventually settling into its present established by the Cheviot hills, which form. on a line more or less northeast to effectively blocked travel both North and southwest, extending from Berwick on South, through ancient Britain, forcing both Tweed, to just North of Carlisle. individuals, and armies, onto those narrow The folk who lived on this Border line, were coastal plains to both east and west. Take a a product of their environment. Devastated middle path through the hills, and one may by centuries of warfare, they knew little never emerge. other than raiding and theft. Why raise And sometime around 117 - 118 A.D. the cattle and crops when they would most Roman Ninth Legion did take that path, and likely be stolen or burned? This was the land as a result, they more or less disappeared of “The Unblessed Hand.” (baptism of all from the pages of history, and their loss but the right hand, which still carry out the prompted the Emperor Hadrian to order the Devil’s work), the land of the “Reivers,” building of a high stone wall across the with a people so unruly and dedicated to narrow neck of Britain, from the Tyne to the warfare, that it was found necessary to Solway, with the intention of containing the divide the Borderline into three sections on Northern Barbarians. either side. “The Border Marches.” Each was under the nominal control of a “Warden” In the late 4th century the Romans began whose theoretical task was to police his area, their withdrawal from Britain, leaving but often the Warden proved to be as unruly control in the hands of a number of local as their “subjects.” “warlords,” and thus began the golden age of the “Old North,” the age of the Saints, the Oddly, perhaps due to their descent from the age of Heroes.... the age of Arthur, of Merlin, Scandinavian tradition, these “Reivers” who and the age of great, near mythical, battles of thought nothing of violence or theft, also the Border, Arthuret, 573 A.D. pitting produced, one of the finest bodies of poetry in pagan against Christian, and the pivotal " 14 the Western World, “The Border Ballads,” and had the oddest code of honour, where the worst crime known was the breaking of ones given word. And what a convenient source of manpower they were. Regarding themselves as neither Scots nor English, Borderers were employed by both realms to supplement their armies in time of need, and in time of peace... well they were equally persecuted for their misdeeds. That situation, lasted right up until the end of the sixteenth century, when King James VI of Scotland, realising that he had a very good chance of becoming King of a “United Kingdom,” decided that he no longer needed the Borderers, and began to encourage the local warlords, to dispose of their more unruly elements.... a process which left the Borders so devastated, that it has never properly recovered. A subject which it is unpopular to raise to this day. In effect, James had the country cleared, and those who did that clearance, were the forbears of our current “nobility.” Some would argue that it brought a certain kind of “peace.” Others tell the truth.... It left an almost empty land. When James did ascend the throne of Britain in 1603, he declared that this now “peaceful” land should be known as the “Middle Shires of Britain.” Nice idea... but it quite simply never happened, and what remained of the once great “Reiving Surnames,” simply went about their daily tasks, expecting little from ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) comment at all on the progress or lack it. To all intents and purposes, “The Borderlands Initiative.”..... is dead in the water. And that, is the reason, why I and my partners in this small business are launching our own small “United Borderlands Project,” using only our own rather limited capital. By the use of car stickers, and sew on / iron on badges, we hope to give the “Border Marches” back an identity. One car bumper sticker, in a city, is seen by many hundreds of people in a single day, and it is hoped that hundreds of them, will be seen by thousands of folk over years. the governments of either realm, and living under a near feudal system controlled by the ever powerful landowners, yet still retaining their individual identities as “Borderers” and a fierce pride in their ancestry. And whilst their displaced cousins, hacked their way through the thirty years war, spread out across Europe and pushed ever westwards across America, they quietly preserved the ballads and traditions, passing them down as a verbal tradition generation to generation. In the early 19th century, (Sir) Walter Scott, collected and published the Border ballads, and achieved for both the Reivers and their exploits near mythical status, a status which lasted until the second half of the 20th century, when it was boosted yet further, by both television, and modern writers, and this perhaps marked the highpoint of interest in both the Anglo Scottish Border Marches, and the old “Riding Surnames.” A slow decline began in the last two decades of the 20th century, pretty much in line with the rise of the “official” Tourism Agency, Visit Scotland. History, and the reivers were not perceived as being, quite “Politically Correct,” and the focus of Border Tourism, moved more towards golf, walking, food, and the growing sport of Mountain Biking. Scottish Nationalism was also on the rise, and the typical promoted image of the Scot, was much more inclined towards the kilted “Highlander,” thanks in no small measure ABS Executive Secretariat - to Hollywood, with films such as “Highlander,” and the exciting, much lauded, but hilariously inaccurate “Braveheart.” Mel Gibson became the darling of the SNP. It may be a small beginning... but as I said at the outset.... Everything has to start somewhere.... and the establishment of an identity... Is exactly where the Government sponsored “Borderlands Initiative” ought to have begun.... But it did not.... It has not... and so far, no-one associated with it... wishes to express any opinion at all on our own efforts. The Lowlander.... was more or less forgotten. But then... there is all of that coal... gas and windpower to consider... and what is the To make matters worse as we entered the ignoring of history, and the potential 20th century, the largest of the landowners, destruction of an historic environment turned his attention away from the compared to that? traditional pastoral pursuits, and concentrated ever increasingly on forestry, Sir Walter Scott must be revolving in his wind farms, and the potential, of the coal grave! and gas fields lying beneath the heartland of ...And that is how things should have stood reiving country. at the moment.... But they don’t... because of The Borders stagnated, and visitor numbers the vote on the 18th of September 2014, on progressively declined. The closer to the Scottish Independence, and the “Brexit” actual Border line, the worse the situation referendum of the 23rd of June 2016. became. There was already a strong degree of So bad did it become that in April of 2014, polarisation over the question of the Scottish Affairs Committee, down in far “Nationality” in Scotland, but both of the off London, decided to do something about it, events above, were highly divisive. and set up “The Borderlands Initiative,” a There were suggestions during both theoretical collaboration between all of the Councils of (more or less) the Old Marches, campaigns of manned International Border to do something about the situation, to foster crossing points, if Scotland went “Independent,” and for those of us on the cross Border co-operation, and to promote Border line, those of us who habitually travel Tourism. back and forth across the Border... this is a Two and a half years later, virtually nothing very serious matter indeed. has been published, no action has been taken, And so in the interests, of trust and and no correspondence addressed to any of friendship we are launching our own small the parties involved is ever answered. No “project.” As a first step in bringing Member of Parliament wishes to speak on together, what the events of the last few the matter.... And Visit Scotland refuse to Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 1 " 5 L A years, have thrust ever further apart. I will be nice if it succeeds... but I do fear that on an “official level” there are a number of individuals who may wish it to fail. Nationalism can be a very dangerous thing indeed. It took a very long time to put the United Kingdom together. It would require almost no time at all to knock it apart. The question we all ought all to be asking... is why anyone really wish to do so... To quote David Cameron.....Doo-doodooooooo..... Right!.... Good! But what exactly was “Right!” and what exactly was “Good!”....? Alex Salmond, the SNP leader during the Independence vote, simply resigned when he failed to achieve his aims, leaving Nicola Sturgeon to step, by default, into his place. He.... is now a Westminster M.P. and lives part of his life in London. David Cameron who had insisted on the Referendum on “Brexit,” stood down as Prime Minister, in the most unusual fashion, exiting Downing Street through the front door of “number ten” humming the tune from “The West Wing” followed by his final words as he closed the door...“Right!.... Good!” F R O N T E R A 3 Few politicians in Britain, have yet grasped what is apparent to anyone at all, who on a day to day basis actually talks, to the general public. There is an ever growing divide, between the values of our cities, primarily, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, with almost entirely the rest of the country.... a huge divide between rural and urban. London in particular, is seen as by many, as no longer really a British city, (over half of its population having been born outside of the United Kingdom), and the Cities, are seen as having a priority.... of monopolising most of our National product. 7 ( 1 ) They simply rob Peter, to pay Paul. Which is no fun at all, if you happen to be Peter! Visit Scotland, and its close attachment to Central Government is one of the major reasons why such a project as “United Borderlands” is very necessary indeed. I have asked Visit Scotland Borders, very directly if they would support such a project.... I have yet to receive any reply at all. * * * * The values and lifestyle of the city dweller, appear to be held very high indeed above the basic necessities of the rural dweller. But this is not just a British problem.... America seems to be suffering from it too.... perhaps also, much of Europe? Few folk anywhere, any longer trust our politicians.... Whatever... the result of all of this for those of us who live on the Anglo-Scottish Border is this.... Brian Moffatt is a Novelist, Goldsmith, and specialist in the Arms and Armour of the Anglo - Scottish Border Reiver. He is 72yrs old, an ex-Police officer who served for 15yrs in both London, and on Tyneside. His place was taken by Theresa May, and it “Visit Scotland” hotly deny that this is true, Since 1978, he and his family have lived in very soon became apparent, that there was but they, are no more than the Tourism arm Scotland just North of the Anglo - Scottish no plan at all in the event of a public vote to of Government, and adjust their statistics by Border Line. leave Europe..... Incredible by any standards. taking their “visitor count” from our major Further details can be found on his blog... Mr Cameron then stood down even further, cities, or, specifically chosen and promoted fallingangelslosthighways.blogspot.com/ destinations. by resigning as a Constituency M.P. The Independence vote reduced visitor numbers from England very dramatically indeed, Brexit and recent the machinations of the SNP have made matters even worse. absborderlands.org "16 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Los Sistemas de Salud en el El Paso, Texas y Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua: inconveniencias en accesibilidad urbana y económica - Rafael Mauricio Marrufo y Sonia Bass Zavala, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez y Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo En las ciudades fronterizas de Juárez (México) y El Paso (Estados Unidos) coexisten dos sistemas de salud con características diferentes, y que por lo mismo otorgan ventajas y desventajas a los ciudadanos que necesitan servicios de Atención Primaria de la Salud (APS). De acuerdo con la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (2002), en Estados Unidos opera un sistema dividido en público y privado, siendo este último el mayor provedor de servicios (67.2%). Gracias a las reformas al sistema de salud, publicadas el 23 de marzo de 2010 (llamadas popularmente “obamacare”), hasta un 90.9% de los estadounidenses en 2015 contaba ya con algún tipo de seguro de salud público o privado, de acuerdo con datos del United States Census Bureau. A pesar de éste porcentaje significativo, 29 millones de personas en este país no cuentan con algun seguro de salud siendo el 9.1% restante. La ciudad de El Paso tiene una población de 842,690 habitantes, cifras del último censo en 2015. En relación a la información que refiere a los servicios de salud, de acuerdo al Departamento de Salud de El Paso en 2013, el 63.6% de la población cuenta con un seguro de salud tipo privado gracias a la contribución de su empleador, pero un 12.5% no cuenta con servicios. Al mismo tiempo, los programas federales Medicare y Medicaid ofrecen una cobertura cada uno del 8.9% y 8.8% respectivamente. Solamente un 5% de los paseños cuenta con un seguro de salud privado pagado en su totalidad por el titular. El sistema de salud de los Estados Unidos no tiene entre sus tareas principales la planeación, construcción y distribución de equipamientos para la APS (clínicas, ABS Executive Secretariat - Mapa 1: Distribución de centros de inmunización (INMUN) y WIC’s en El Paso (2013). Fuente: Elaboración propia con datos del Departamento de Salud Pública de El Paso Texas (EPPHD) centros comunitarios), sino que más bien es el regulador de las propuestas de grupos de inversión privada en conjunto con las autoridades de cada condado. Esta forma de trabajo ha generado la distribución actual de equipamientos para la APS en El Paso identificados como Centros de Inmunización y Centros de Atención a Mujeres e Infantes (WIC’s) que se extienden principalmente alrededor de su eje troncal: la autopista Interestatatal 10. La distribución de los centros de atención calificados, que incluye clínicas y consultorios privados, para dar atención a la población que cuenta con seguro de salud, muestra que en esta ciudad no existen problemas de accesibilidad urbana, puesto que además de la distribución geográfica, las vialidades y el sistema de transporte se encuentran en buenas condiciones para facilitar la movilización de las personas. Es decisión del asegurado determinar qué unidad de atención y médico es el más conveniente tanto por calidad y costo del servicio. Por lo que si éstos no se localizan en el área de residencia, no es difícil trasladarse a donde se encuentren a una distancia y tiempo más cercano. Los problemas de accesibilidad a los servicios de salud en El Paso se relacionan más bien con los costos de los seguros de salud. El 33% de la población en 2013 no contaba con algún tipo de seguro de salud, debido a la incapacidad para realizar los pagos por la falta de un empleo estable o por encontrarse en una situación de pobreza, de acuerdo con el reporte del Departamento de Salud de la ciudad (EPPHD, 2013). Las clínicas, consultorios médicos y odontólogos tienen la facultad de rechazar a personas que cuentan con Medicare, Medicare o Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 1 " 7 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Mapa 2: Distribución de equipamientos oficiales para la atención APS en Ciudad Juárez (SP, ISSSTE y UMF-IMSS) Fuente: Elaboración propia con datos de IMSS, ISSSTE y Seguro Popular. seguro privado con baja cobertura económica con ralación a el tipo de atención solicitada. Por otra parte, una visita medica podría dejar en bancarrota a las personas. Al otro lado de la frontera, en México, opera un sistema de salud controlado prácticamente por las autoridades federales. Donde la disposición de personal, de equipamientos (clínicas, hospitales, centros comunitarios) y de programas de salud, depende de la distribución de recursos económicos de las autoridades hacendarias. En 2014, los gastos en materia de salud representaron el 6.3% del Producto Interno Bruto, indicó el Banco Mundial en su portal. De esta manera, el 89% de las inversiones en materia de salud a nivel nacional en 2014 corrieron a cargo del Estado, y el resto por entidades privadas. El Sistema Nacional de Salud, dividido en los sectores de Seguridad Social, Seguridad "18 Asistencial y Sector Privado cuenta en el nivel de APS con doce equipamientos tipo Unidad de Medicina Familiar (UMF) del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social que se conocen popularmente como “clínicas familiares”, dos UMF por parte del Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) y siete unidades tipo Centro Avanzado de Atención Primaria de la Salud (CAAPS) correspondientes al Seguro Popular. Además, de los equipamientos oficiales, el sector privado dispone de 42 clínicas y hospitales. El IMSS otorga servicios al 52.8% de la población, por un 28% del Seguro Popular. Los datos anteriores suponen un 95% de juarenses con adscripción a algún tipo de servicio de salud de los tres sectores citados. Contar con adscripción a servicios oficiales de salud en México es relativamente barato ABS Executive Secretariat - si se le compara con Estados Unidos. El Artículo IV de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos es obligación del gobierno cumplir con el Derecho a la Salud para todos los habitantes, de ahí que entre los deberes oficiales se encuentra el participar en los pagos para que los trabajadores se inscriban al IMSS o al ISSSTE (Seguridad Social), y en caso que las personas se encuentren en pobreza, ofrecerles el servicio del Seguro Popular (Seguridad Asistencial) a bajo o nulo costo. La provisión de equipamientos de IMSS, ISSSTE y Seguro Popular es tarea del Sistema Nacional de Salud de México. No obstante, con la distribución territorial de los equipamientos los ciudadanos adscritos al servicio enfrenten problemas de accesibilidad que son ajenos a los costos del servicio, así, la accesibilidad urbana y la accesibilidad administrativa se convierten Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A en los principales problemas que sufren los usuarios. En el aspecto urbano, la distribución en calidad y cantidad de equipamientos se ha rezagado con respecto al crecimiento territorial de la ciudad, el cual se dirige hacia el sur y suroriente; los habitantes de estas zonas deben trasladarse, largas distancias para llegar a la unidad oficial de adscripción. El recorrido es accidentado por las condiciones de las vialidades que generalmente tienen baches, tramos sin pavimento o hasta segmentos inundados por lluvias. El sistema de transporte en esta ciudad a su vez no es el más eficiente ya que las unidades son de tipo “transporte escolar” que no cuentan con las condiciones de comodidad para movilizar personas de edad avanzada, embarazadas o con capacidades diferentes. El problema de accesibilidad urbana en Ciudad Juárez tiene además relación con los problemas de accesibilidad administrativa de los servicios de salud. Gracias al sistema de salud hay mayores posibilidades de afiliarse a las UMF y a los CAAPS por lo que se genera una saturación de la capacidad de atención que obliga a afiliar a las personas en unidades que se encuentran en otras áreas de la ciudad, lejos de la zona donde se habita. A pesar de la necesidad expresa de que las autoridades contruyan más UMF y CAAPS para la APS, la disminución a nivel federal de los presupuestos para el rubro de la salud se está convirtiendo en un factor determinante para la precarización de los servicios. Cruzar la frontrera entre El Paso y Ciudad Juárez es algo habitual para muchas personas y representa el encontrar otro tipo de oportunidades. En los puentes internacionales Reforma, Las Américas y Zaragoza que unen a estas ciudades, las autoridades mexicanas reportan hasta 10,000 automóviles que se internan diariamente en México. Cruzar la frontera representa también para los residentes de El Paso la posibilidad de aprovechar algunos aspectos del sistema de salud mexicano que les resulta más barato e incluso accesible culturalmente. El 49.5% de las personas que cruzan hacia Ciudad Juárez ha utilizado algún servicio de salud ya sea público o privado, incluso cuando se dispone de un seguro de salud en los Estados Unidos, es posible hacer uso de los ABS Executive Secretariat - F R O N T E R A 3 servicios de atención primaria privados en México La encuesta de Mauricio y Ortiz (2015) arrojó entre otros resultados que los servicios más solicitados son la consulta médica privada con un 39.43%, atención del odontólogo con un 36.5% (incluye endodoncia y periodoncia) y compras de fármacos (Mauricio y Ortiz, 2015). Incluso, un 3.59% de los paseños tiene derechohabiencia en el IMSS y 0.88% utiliza servicios de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Los hispanos son el grupo de mayor presencia en la ciudad de El Paso por lo que cruzan con mayor frecuencia por servicios de salud. La encuesta reveló que el 28% de los hispanos que compran sus fármacos en Ciudad Juárez carece de seguro de salud contra un 15% de los angloamericanos que también cruzan con ese propósito. Debido al costo de la consulta médica en El Paso es que estas personas prefieren trasladarse a México, acudir al consultorio y recibir la receta de fármacos para surtirla ahí mismo ya que el costo es menor y la calidad es la misma. En contraste, son pocos los juarenses que solicitan servicios de salud en El Paso principalmente por la diferencia de precios del servicio y por el idioma (inglés). Es conocido que en Ciudad Juárez algunos matrimonios ahorran suficiente dinero para que sus hijos nazcan en un hospital de El Paso y así adquieran la nacionalidad estadounidense y con el tiempo quizá obtener algunos beneficios como padres. También se acude cuando no se encuentran aquí algunos fármacos muy específicos, a pesar de que los costos son mayores en la ciudad de El Paso. Se concluye que cada sistema de salud genera ventajas y desventajas. En El Paso existe una dotación suficiente de servicios que están bien distribuidos y con personal calificado, sin embargo los costos de los seguros de salud generan segregación socioeconómica que se refleja en la falta de accesibilidad a los servicios para la población con menos recursos económicos. Las personas puden contar con la posibilidad de cruzar hacia Ciudad Juárez para satisfacer sus necesidades básicas en materia de salud. En Ciudad Juárez por su parte, la distribución de los equipamientos, combinada con la saturación de la 7 ( 1 ) capacidad de atención tiene como resultado la segregación espacial de los afiliados a los servicios además de problemas de accesibilidad administrativa por la programación de citas con el médico familiar que deben ser con días de antelación así como la espera de una reubicación a una clínica más cercana. Ambas ciudades tienen el reto de mejorar la accesibilidad a los servicios, pero esta tarea depende también en gran medidad de las disposiciones emitidas desde sus respectivos gobiernos federales así como por la intervención de los inversionistas privados de la salud. Referencias Banco Mundial (WB). Consultado el 26 de octubre de 2016 en: http:// data.worldbank.org/indicator/ SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS? locations=US&view=chart Census Bureau (2016). Consultado el 01 de noviembre de 2016 en: http:// www.census.gov/library/publications/2016/ demo/p60-257.html Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (1983). Consultada el 14 de julio de 2014 en: http:// www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/htm/ 1.htm El Paso’s Department of Public Health (EPDPH, 2013). Community Health Assessment Draft Report. El Paso, Texas; USA Mauricio Marrufo R. y Ortiz Esparza G. (2015). Encuesta de utilización de servicios de salud en Ciudad Juárez por habitantes de Estados Unidos. Efectuada en los puentes internacionales Reforma, Las Américas y Zaragoza. Muestra de 1609 personas. Organización Panamericana de la Salud (2002). Programa de Organización y Gestión de Servicios de Sistemas de Salud. Washinggton, EEUU. Consultado el 20 de octubre en: http://www.paho.org/hq/ dmdocuments/2010/Perfil_Sistema_SaludEstados_Unidos_America_2002.pdf Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. March 23rd, 2010. US Congress. Washington, USA Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 1 " 9 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Notes from an exhibition HOUDOUD AL BAHR | I Confini del Mare Concept: Chiara Brambilla e Rita Ceresoli Educational Project: Rita Ceresoli Anthropological Consulting: Chiara Brambilla Photographic materials of the study Notes on the Italian/Tunisian borderscape: Alessio Angelo originally from nearby Tunisia) who are now living together in Mazara. Listening to young people and embracing their viewpoints on the very borderscape that they inhabit means acknowledging their right to participate in the public sphere; at the same time, it also provides them with democratic responsibility, of which they are deprived, as they are usually excluded from political and administrative life and obliged to carry a sort of “postponed or diminished citizenship” that can be compared, in some ways, to that of migrants. The exhibition Houdoud al bahr | I Confini del Mare was held from Friday 1 July to Tuesday 5 July 2016 at Sala alla Porta S. Agostino in Bergamo. Houdoud al bahr is built upon extensive research conducted by the Centre for Research on Complexity (Ce.R.Co., http:// www.cercounibg.it/ricerche/?lang=en) of the University of Bergamo within the EUFP7 EUBORDERSCAPES project (http:// www.euborderscapes.eu/) in the Italian/ Tunisian borderland zooming in on the urban space of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, and its relations with the city of Mahdia in Tunisia. A documentary film, “Houdoud al bahr | The Mediterranean Frontiers: Mazara - Mahdia” was also made during the course of the research and the film was projected during the exhibition as a part of it (3. Session). Among the different actors who have been involved in this research, particular attention has been devoted to young people (whose families are originally from Mazara) and young migrants (whose families are "20 Photographs and iconographic materials in the exhibition, with the exception of the photos of the study Notes on the Italian/ Tunisian borderscape, come from the educational workshop activities undertaken with the young people living in Mazara del Vallo during the course of the research. We have organized workshop activities during 2014 and 2015 in-between Mazara and Mahdia while focusing on two topics: “Landscape as an intercultural mediator” and “Italian/Tunisian border: imaginations, imaginaries and images”. The exhibition presents research results on the Italian/Tunisian borderland as possible experiential learning tools. “Channel” to the exhibition route is a stretch of open sea that divides and connects at the same time the two cultures and countries of young people attending school in Mazara del Vallo, who have been involved in the research project as key informants. The exhibition presents different types of audio-visual materials that belong to both the young people who participated in the research and to the visitors who will allow themselves to be led by young people’s voices and traces and who will wonder about their own ideas of the border and “home”. ABS Executive Secretariat - The only rule that needs to be followed on this ideal, symbolic but not so imaginary route is “forbidden not to touch” as well as the invitation to interact, to move oneself and to move different objects. But what are these objects? They are panels, totems, cardboard boxes, papers, and photos of the exhibition sessions that are conceived as major landmarks in a landscape that should be experienced to get in the game and to start wondering about the themes of the exhibition while keeping this thinking beyond the very borders of the exhibition. For this purpose, visitors, be they adults or children, can follow - if they want - the suggestions for activities to be done at the exhibition and to be continued beyond its walls. The city of each visitor could become, in this way, an open-air laboratory where a “work in progress” will potentially never ends. A photo series of black and white images entitled “Notes on the Italian/Tunisian borderscape” completes the exhibition route. These photos should be regarded as travel notes that tell us about the two cities of Mazara del Vallo and Mahdia through their places and the faces of the people who inhabit them or passed through them. As a part of materials produced during the course of the research, these photos will drive visitors along the exhibition route giving them additional suggestions and valuable records. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) THE FOUR SESSIONS OF THE EXHIBITION 1. BETWEEN LAND AND SEA | The city where I live 2. BEYOND THE LINE | What are borders? 3. HOUDOUD AL BAHR. BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE SEA | The documentary film 4. INHABITING THE MEDITERRANEAN | The city where I live: how do I want it to be? 1. Session - BETWEEN LAND AND SEA: You can go from here, navigating this sea made of roads to be crossed and allowing yourself to be led by the viewpoint of the young people who live in Mazara del Vallo and tell you about their city through their photos and drawings. Whether it’s beautiful or ugly, it’s scary, disturbing or hospitable, it is in any case “land”. Behind each of the twenty cards that compose this symbolic sea, you can find a photo or a drawing representing a fragment of the city and a fragment of memory that make you practice reading and carefully observing like in a memory game. Turning the cards, you will discover that the photos and the drawings intertwine, refer to each other, and complement one another. You can contribute yourself to the story thereby creating new stories and associations between one or more cards. As you venture into the city of Mazara, it will leave the shape of unknown maremagnum becoming familiar to you. Besides that, Mazara will be a map that you can use to orient yourself in new ways in the city where you live. ABS Executive Secretariat - 2. Session - BEYOND THE LINE: The journey now brings you in front of a “border” to be crossed. Imagine yourself getting through the empty spaces of the dashed line that twists and turns in front of you along the Channel of Sicily. Make your own symbolic path between a totem and the other. As the border is neither a static line nor a geometrical sign, so the panels in front of you do not form a wall. Rather, they tell you about the border as a mobile, fluid space that is constituted and traversed by human relationships. Moving through the totems, you can also learn about the research work carried out by the Centre for Research on Complexity of the University of Bergamo in-between Mazara del Vallo and Mahdia within the 7FP EUBORDERSCAPES Project. On the panels you can find short texts and images that tell you about this European Project as well as the activities undertaken with young people living in Mazara del Vallo during the course of the research. Some of the youths are of Italian origin and some others are of Tunisian origin. 3. Session - HOUDOUD AL BAHR. BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE SEA: There’s now a new “land” waiting for you. You can discover this new “land” through the documentary film Houdoud al bahr (the film can be seen (full and short version) online at the following address http://www.cercounibg.it/hoududalbahr/? lang=en Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 2 " 1 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) and for further information about the film see https://bordercult.hypotheses.org/43). Stop here to meet and “follow” young people living in Mazara del Vallo. Some of them are pictured during the travel towards their “place of origin”, that is, the city of Mahdia in Tunisia. This city - where their parents were born and where, in some cases, they were born as well - is no longer a day-to-day presence in their lives, yet it is still loaded with emotional significance and is a place full of memories. 4. Session - INHABITING THE MEDITERRANEAN: In this last session, the daily life of young people is waiting for you. You are in the land that is inhabited today by young people from Mazara as well as in the future land that is imagined by them. It is a land “to come” that has been chosen as the place where they would like to establish their “home”. In this sense, this land, which is observed, constructed, and imagined with new eyes, is a very land of opportunities that not only is a promised land but it also is a chosen land to be inhabited. This land is, in a sense, your “land” as well, that is, the land where you live today and where you will choose to live tomorrow. By Chiara Brambilla University of Bergamo, Italy EUBORDERSCAPES, inanced though the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, was an international research project that tracks and interprets conceptual change in the study of borders. It was a large-scale project and the consortium includes 22 partner institutions from 17 diferent states, including several non-EU countries. The EUBORDERSCAPES project studied conceptual change in relation to fundamental social, economic, cultural and geopolitical transformations that have taken place in the past decades. In addition, major paradigmatic shifts in scientiic debate, and in the social sciences in particular, was considered. http://www.euborderscapes.eu "22 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Call for Papers Bridges or Walls? The Case for Open Borders in the XXI Century 2017 Annual Conference April 12-15, 2017 San Francisco, California, United States Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero) Since September 11, 2001 there has been a notable efort to reinstate borders in the world. In the past few years, we have observed the resurgence of physical borders that are reminiscent of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall or the Great Wall of China. At the same time, ideological borders are being built at many levels and in diferent parts of the globe. Examples of these trends are: the emergence of strong nationalist movements in Europe, the United States, and some Asian nations; Brexit; the rise of right-wing parties in Europe and the United States; the renewed rivalry between China, Russia and the United States; and the humanitarian crises of Western Asian war refugees, and African and Central American refugees from violence and poverty. The emergence of multiple walls and the re-bordering process, going on in Europe and undermining the very idea of the European Union, is emblematic in this regard. Such trends are totally opposite to the forces of globalization that seemed to be unstoppable at the end of last century. They also appear to be incompatible with hybrid identities, economic prosperity, and human liberty. Hence, there seems to be a case for open borders in search for greater prosperity, peace and freedom in the world today. In such a context, the Association for Borderlands Studies invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels that directly address these issues and focus on the theme for the 2017 annual conference: “Bridges or Walls? The Case for Open Borders in the XXI Century”. Papers and panels on all topics and areas concerned with border studies are invited but the program committee will particularly welcome works related to the global challenge of whether we should be building bridges or walls in the present times. • • • • • Alongside regular sessions, there will be plenary sessions on the following topics: Brexit and the “re-bordering” process in Europe Who Are We? 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Challenges to America's National Identity (Revisiting Samuel Huntington) New Walls and “New Nationalisms”: Experiences from All Over the World Borders and Refugees: Western Asia, Africa and Central America Please include the following information in your proposal: • Title of presentation • Name, ailiation, mailing address, telephone number and email address • Other authors • Abstract not to exceed 200 words • Panel proposals should include abstract of the panel and information of each paper and author Scholars willing to serve as moderators or discussants should also please indicate their interest in the proposal. The deadline for abstracts is December 1, 2016. The letter of acceptance will be sent to you by email no later than January 30, 2017. Please note that to receive the certiicate of participation you must have paid the WSSA registration fee and the ABS 2017 membership. Please submit proposals for panels and papers through the WSSA website at http://www.wssaweb.com/sections.html 2017 ABS Program Advisory Committee: Patricia Barraza (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico); Kimberly Collins (California State University, San Bernardino, USA); Irasema Coronado (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Victor Konrad (Carleton University, Canada); Tony Payan (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and Rice University, USA); Kathleen Staudt (University of Texas at El Paso, USA). Program chair and coordinator: Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (guadalupe.correacabrera@utrgv.edu) ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 2 " 3 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Convocatoria ¿Puentes o Muros? Un Debate sobre las Fronteras Abiertas en el Siglo XXI Conferencia Anual 2017 San Francisco, California, EE.UU. del 12 al 15 de abril de 2017 Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero) Desde el 11 de septiembre de 2001, se ha registrado un esfuerzo notable por reestablecer las fronteras en el mundo. En los últimos años, es posible observar el resurgimiento de las fronteras físicas que nos recuerdan al Muro de Adriano o a la Gran Muralla China. Al mismo tiempo, importantes fronteras ideológicas están siendo construidas bajo distintos criterios y en diferentes regiones. Ejemplos de dichas tendencias incluyen: el surgimiento de fuertes movimientos nacionalistas en Europa, los Estados Unidos y algunas naciones asiáticas; el Brexit; el auge de los partidos de extrema derecha en Europa y los Estados Unidos; una renovada rivalidad entre China, Rusia y los Estados Unidos; y las crisis humanitarias de los refugiados de guerra en el occidente asiático y los refugiados que escapan de la pobreza y la violencia en África y Centroamérica. La construcción de nuevos muros y el proceso de “re-fronterización” que se observa hoy en día en Europa—y que contrasta con la idea misma de la Unión Europea—son también emblemáticos en este sentido. Estas tendencias contrastan con las fuerzas del proceso de globalización que parecía imparable a inales del siglo pasado. También parecen ser incompatibles con las identidades universales, la prosperidad económica y la libertad humana. Por consiguiente, parecen existir argumentos válidos para el mantenimiento de las fronteras abiertas en pos de una mayor prosperidad, paz y libertad en el mundo. En este contexto, la Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos invita a la presentación de propuestas de trabajos de investigación individuales y paneles completos que discutan los aspectos antes mencionados y se enfoquen directamente en el tema para la conferencia anual de 2017: “¿Puentes o Muros? Un Debate sobre las Fronteras Abiertas en el Siglo XXI”. Se invita a la presentación de propuestas de trabajos relacionados con todas las áreas de los estudios fronterizos, pero el comité evaluador dará preferencia a las investigaciones vinculadas al reto global y a la disyuntiva de construir puentes o muros en la era actual. Paralelamente a las sesiones ordinarias, se pretende dar un énfasis especial a varias sesiones extraordinarias bajo los siguientes temas: • • • • Brexit y el proceso de “re-fronterización” en Europa Quienes Somos? La Campaña Presidencial de 2016 en Estados Unidos y los Desafíos a la Identidad Nacional Estadounidense (Analizando el pensamiento de Samuel Huntington) Nuevos Muros y “Nuevos Nacionalismos”: Experiencias alrededor del Mundo Fronteras y Refugiados: Siria, África y Centroamérica Favor de enviar la propuesta con la siguiente información: 1) Título de la presentación, 2) Nombre, ailiación institucional, dirección postal, número de teléfono y dirección de correo electrónico, 3) Co-autores, 4) Resumen no mayor de 200 palabras, incluyendo palabras clave, 5 Los organizadores de paneles completos deben incluir en su propuesta un resumen del panel además de la información de cada ponencia y autor. Se convoca también a los/las panelistas interesados/as en participar como moderadores/as o comentaristas a que indiquen su interés en la propuesta. La fecha límite para recibir propuestas es el 1 de diciembre de 2016. La carta de aceptación será enviada por correo electrónico a más tardar el 30 de enero 2017. Por favor tome nota que para recibir la constancia de participación deberá haber pagado la cuota de la WSSA y la membresía 2017 de la ABS. Favor de enviar las propuestas de ponencias individuales y paneles completos a través del sitio de la WSSA http://www.wssaweb.com/ sections.html Comité Asesor del Programa ABS 2017: Patricia Barraza (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México); Kimberly Collins (California State University, San Bernardino, Estados Unidos); Irasema Coronado (Universidad de Texas en El Paso, Estados Unidos); Victor Konrad (Carleton University, Canadá); Tony Payan (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México y Rice University, Estados Unidos); Kathleen Staudt (Universidad de Texas en El Paso, Estados Unidos). Directora y Coordinadora del Programa: Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (guadalupe.correacabrera@utrgv.edu). "24 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Call for RISC sponsored PREMIO AL MEJOR TRABAJO ESCRITO BEST PAPER AWARD Convocatoria Patrocinada por RISC 2017 ABS Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, United States Conferencia Anual de la ABS en 2017, San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos This year, again, the ABS is delighted to ofer a best paper award. This award is the creation of Professor Harlan Kof, President of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC, University of Luxembourg). RISC is proud to sponsor a yearly best paper award to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). Este año nuevamente, la ABS se complace en ofrecer un premio al mejor trabajo escrito presentado en la conferencia anual. Este premio fue instituido por el Profesor Harlan Kof, Presidente del Consorcio de Investigación Comparada sobre Integración Regional y Cohesión Social (RISC, Universidad de Luxemburgo). RISC se enorgullece de patrocinar un premio anual al mejor trabajo escrito que se presente en el Congreso Anual de la Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos (ABS). The award, selected by a committee of scholars from the ABS and the RISC Consortium, will recognize the best paper submitted by the deadline, and presented in person by at least one author and conference participant duly registered at the WSSA and ABS annual conference. The award committee will only consider ABS original conference papers on the theme: “Bridges or Walls? The Case for Open Borders in the XXI Century”. The paper selected for this award will be submitted for publication in the journal Regions & Cohesion. The author(s) will also receive a certificate and 250 Euros. Submissions are to be sent by March 3, 2017 to Dr. Francisco Lara-Valencia, at fcolara@asu.edu. Members of the RISC Award Committee will evaluate the paper towards the award and cash prize, yet the ABS reserves the right not to grant prizes if papers are not of adequate professional quality. 2017 ABS Best Paper Award Advisory Committee: Christophe Sohn, Chair (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, LISER, Luxembourg), César Fuentes (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, COLEF-Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), and Adriana Dorfman (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). El premio, seleccionado por un Comité de Expertos de la ABS y del Consorcio RISC, se otorgará al mejor trabajo escrito enviado en el plazo establecido, y presentado en persona por al menos un autor, debidamente registrado en la Conferencia Anual de la WSSA y de la ABS. Únicamente se considerarán los trabajos originales escritos y presentados en la Conferencia Anual de la ABS circunscritos en la temática central: “¿Puentes o Muros? Un Debate sobre las Fronteras Abiertas en el Siglo XXI”. El trabajo seleccionado para el premio será considerado para su publicación en la Revista Regions & Cohesion. El(los) autor(es) también recibirá(n) un reconocimiento y 250 Euros. Los trabajos deberán ser enviados antes del 3 de marzo de 2017 al Dr. Francisco Lara-Valencia, al correo electrónico fcolara@asu.edu. Los miembros del Comité de Premiación del RISC evaluarán el trabajo escrito para la entrega del reconocimiento y el dinero en efectivo. Sin embargo, la ABS se reserva el derecho de no asignar los premios si los trabajos no se consideran de suiciente calidad profesional. Comité Asesor, Premio al Mejor Trabajo Escrito ABS 2017: Christophe Sohn, Director (Luxembourg Institute of SocioEconomic Research, LISER, Luxemburgo), César Fuentes (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, COLEF-Ciudad Juárez, México), y Adriana Dorfman (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil). Regions and Cohesion / Regiones y Cohesión SSN: 2152-906X (Print) Website: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/reco/ ISSN: 2152-9078 (Online) Publisher: Berghahn Journals 3 issues pa. (spring, summer, winter) Editors: Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda, RISC ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 2 " 5 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Call for Student Participation: BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD The Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) extends a special invitation to graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in borderland issues to take part in our upcoming meeting. Towards this goal, we are happy to announce the continuation of our Student Paper Competition in which four cash awards will be ofered to the best student papers presented at the conference. • $250 U.S. for best graduate student paper • $125 U.S. for second place graduate paper • $150 U.S. for the best undergraduate student paper, and • $75 U.S. for the second place undergraduate paper. In addition to these cash awards, the irst place graduate paper will be automatically considered for publication in the Journal of Borderlands Studies. The speciic guidelines of this paper competition are as follows: 1) Papers must be sole-authored by the student submitting the paper, not co-authored with a faculty advisor or other student(s). 2) Papers must be original work developed as a conference research paper, not a project report for funded work. 3) Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages, double-spaced with 12 point text and 1 inch margins, or approximately 6,000 words in length. Manuscripts should also comply with the guidelines for articles to be submitted to the Journal of Borderlands Studies (JBS); consult http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjbs20#.UjdNR2QY140 for these formal guidelines. 4) Students must present the paper at the conference to qualify for the prizes. Students must also be full time students and current members of the ABS at the time of the conference, although students can certainly join as part of the registration process. We ask that students have their faculty advisor conirm their student status and level of study at the time the paper is submitted via email communication to Dr. Francisco Lara-Valencia, at fcolara@asu.edu. Students must submit a typed, professional quality manuscript to Dr. Lara-Valencia by March 3, 2017. Members of the Committee on Student Participation will evaluate the written document towards the award of the cash prize, yet the ABS reserves the right not to grant prizes if papers are not of adequate professional quality. For further information, feel free to contact Dr. Lara-Valencia. 2017 ABS Best Paper Student Competition Committee: Laurie Trautman, Chair (Western Washington University, USA), T. Mark Montoya (Northern Arizona University, USA), and Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University, Japan). Convocatoria para Estudiantes: PREMIO AL MEJOR TRABAJO ESCRITO La Asociación de Estudios Fronterizos (ABS) invita a las y los estudiantes de licenciatura y posgrado que estén interesados(as) en temas de frontera a participar en la próxima Conferencia que se realizará en San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos, del 12 al 15 de abril de 2017. Interesa estimular la participación estudiantil y por ello se hace una invitación para presentar ensayos relacionados con el tema central de la Conferencia: “¿Puentes o Muros? Un Debate sobre las Fronteras Abiertas en el Siglo XXI”. Los mejores ensayos se premiarán de la siguiente manera: • • • • $ 250 dólares para el mejor trabajo escrito de un estudiante de posgrado $ 125 dólares para el segundo mejor trabajo escrito de un estudiante postgrado $ 150 dólares para el mejor trabajo escrito de los estudiantes de pregrado $ 75 dólares para el segundo mejor trabajo escrito de un estudiante de pregrado. Los premios se otorgan en efectivo en dólares americanos. Además de los premios en efectivo, el ensayo que reciba el primer lugar de los estudiantes de posgrado será considerado para su publicación en la Revista de Estudios Fronterizos (Journal of Borderlands Studies, JBS). Criterios de participación: 1) Los trabajos deberán ser de la autoría exclusiva del estudiante que presenta el documento; no puede escribirse en co-autoría con algún tutor(a) de su Institución o con otro(a) estudiante(s). 2) Los ensayos deberán ser inéditos, y desarrollados como un trabajo de investigación para la Conferencia. No se considerarán informes de proyectos inanciados. 3) Los trabajos deben ser de no más de 25 páginas, a doble espacio con letra de tamaño 12 y márgenes de 1 pulgada, o aproximadamente 6,000 palabras de extensión. Los manuscritos también deberán cumplir con las especiicaciones de los artículos que se presentan en la Revista de Estudios Fronterizos (Journal of Borderlands Studies, JBS). Consultar estos lineamientos en http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ rjbs20#.UjdNR2QY140. 4) Los estudiantes deberán presentar su ensayo en la Conferencia para poder concursar. Los estudiantes deben ser de tiempo completo y estar registrados(as) como miembros de la ABS al momento de la Conferencia, o si lo desean pueden adquirir su membresía a la hora del proceso de registro. Para comprobar que son estudiantes de tiempo completo se les solicitará que su asesor envíe una carta especiicando su estatus y nivel de estudios a través de correo electrónico dirigido al Dr. Francisco Lara-Valencia, al correo electrónico: fcolara@asu.edu. Los estudiantes deben presentar un manuscrito de calidad profesional y enviarlo por correo electrónico al Dr. Lara-Valencia antes del 3 de marzo de 2017. Los miembros del Comité de Selección de trabajos ganadores de los estudiantes evaluarán el documento escrito para la concesión del premio en efectivo. Sin embargo, la ABS se reserva el derecho de no otorgar los premios si los documentos no son de calidad profesional adecuada. Para mayor información, favor de contactar por correo electrónico al Dr. Lara-Valencia. Comité de Selección al Mejor Trabajo de Estudiantes ABS 2017: Laurie Trautman, Directora (Western Washington University, Estados Unidos), T. Mark Montoya (Northern Arizona University, Estados Unidos) y Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University, Japón). "26 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) International Seminar on Analysis of Spatial Transitions in coastal and border areas Iran University of Science and Technology, 23 April & 8 May 2016 linear spatial structures in Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan provinces and the western border cities with the special economic and political features. He asserted the main goal and originality of this event as it aims to analysis the substantial spatial challenges in border regions in terms of their main economic activities, to compare the spatial transition in coastal urban areas of Iran and Switzerland and to conceptualize informal settlements in border regions with economical functions. The international seminar on border and coastal spatial areas was held in Iran University of Science and Technology on 23 April and 8 May 2016 with the collaboration of Prof. Bridel from university of Lausanne and Prof. Limgruber, from University of Fribourg, who attempted to clarify the territory management of border regions in Switzerland for Iranian researchers. Dr. Reza Kheyroddin as the scientific secretary of this seminar in the beginning session on 23 April declared that Spatial transition in coastal and border cities are the subject of many researches in the fields of urban and regional planning due to the importance of the cross bordering activities of borders and natural vulnerability of coastal ecosystems. Borders in north of Iran appear as the coastal cities with the ABS Executive Secretariat - The first day of the seminar concentrated on the spatial evolution in coastal urban areas as the linear border in North of Iran. In this session the PhD researcher, Miss. Maede Hedayatifard whose thesis is on the exclusive space production in coastal urban areas, presented her research on the explanation of the spatial transition and then the spatial outputs of current trends in the coastal region of Mazandaran Province in North of Iran. She emphasized on the high pressure on coastal land uses due to the invaluable environment and economic situation and these caused the limited and exclusive access to the public shoreline. Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran has a shoreline with 337 km, Because of the limited capacity of coastal lands and conflicting interests among stakeholders of the coastal resources, there are intensifying pressures to retain and provide more public access to the coast. From 337 Km length of Caspian Sea shoreline in Mazandaran Province, about 73% (248km) are built and only 27% (about 90km) are open and have no limitation for public use. 40km of the shoreline is under the buildings of gated communities which are kinds of exclusive spaces, with limited access for public use of coastal services. The spatial evolution was problematic as it caused the increasing trend in fragmentation of agricultural lands and changing land uses, environmental demolition, and socio-spatial segregation. She finally assert that by considering the ownerships of these gated and exclusive spaces, it seems that the government, play the important role in the production of exclusiveness spaces. The large privatized and exclusive coastal gated communities with the recreational and temporary residential functions for governmental staffs and these spatial changes need the new approaches of spatial planning in decision making system of the coastal regions. Then, Prof. Bridel from university of Lausanne talked about the coastal management in Lausanne. He stated that the level of water is not a problem for the lake of Geneva, as it is controlled by a river dam in the city of Geneva and as the lake volume is very large. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 2 " 7 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) near to the water. He concluded that the land use plans cannot solve all the problems because although the regulations and policies are clear, the political situation of the society is not clearly definable. The municipality is the institution with the increase public support but the private sector does not collaborate easily. So decision makers and decision takers need to find the more collaborative manners in their problem solving system. For Switzerland, it is suggested to concentrate on sociological approaches to find solution for coastal conflicts. Presentation of Mrs. Hedayatifard on spatial transition in coastal border cities in North of Iran The seminar on “spatial transition in coastal border cities The lake of Geneva being a border lake, the customs official are allowed to go all along the shore. The land uses of coastal lands can be Agriculture, Quarry, Fishing, Mobility, Housing, Leisure and Biological Reserve. In the regulation of guidance and control of the coastal spaces in Lausanne, the owners’ rights, the public access rights and the environmental regulations were explained. The majority of the shoreline is accessible for public and pedestrian even in some residential areas, where there is a rocky coast, the public way is prepared in just a limited width of 50 cm. But in some limited areas, it has constraints of private buildings which has been built since 100 years ago. In order to increase the public "28 accessibility to the shoreline, urban planning system tried expropriation of the lands and transition of the right of development in other areas. The principle of the public access was included in the federal law but its implementation is far from easy, as the principle of money compensation is still prevalent for any encroachment on privately owned land. Several municipalities are trying to create a path along their lakeshore, often after a vivid political debate and a binding vote, but they often cannot finish their task due to a fierce resistance of some of the private owners. On the other hand, building regulations on the lakeshore are very restrictive and impel constructions too ABS Executive Secretariat - The second section of the seminar was supported by an academic trip to Kordestan province in order to have a local visit of the Baneh border city. The research project of “analysis of informal economic impacts on spatial transformation in border cities” with the collaboration of Dr. Kheyroddin, professor in Iran University of Science and Technology, Prof. Leimgruber, professor in Department of Geosciences/Geography in University of Fribourg and Mr. Mahdi Razpour, PhD student in urban and regional planning (IUST), was approved in the Iran ministry of science and researches at 2013, has caved the way for an academic travel to Kordestan and having a local visit of Baneh and Sanandaj, two main border cities in West of Iran. The team had some official meetings with the mayor of Baneh, decision makers and the municipality. They had debates around the impacts of informal trade in the borders, complexity of urban management in these cities and also the constraints of current urban planning system in Iran. Coming back from Sanandaj, an international seminar on border cities was held on 8 May 2016 by the presentation of Dr. Kheyroddin and Prof. Limgruber in Iran University Science and technology. Prof. Limgruber opened the discussion by debates on legal and illegal border trade. He stated that Humans are traders, and political boundaries obviously obstruct their mobility. Border controls not only slow down our movements, they also impose limitations on the amount of goods people can carry. He explained two essential elements of border theory including boundary functions and boundary effects. Illegal trade or smuggling is ignoring a country’s rules Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A as to importing goods. In fact it is the import that the authorities aim for, because they enter a market that is protected by customs duties and many other, non-tariff regulations (such as norms or internal trade limitations or prohibitions), or may threaten a state monopoly. The civil society has an ambiguous attitude. People usually want to respect the rules, but there is also the temptation to import just a little bit more than allowed, they can also take advantage of price differences. He asserted that Boundaries are an inherent part of human nature. Individuals, groups, and entire societies have always tried to define their own territories. It is therefore utopian to believe in a borderless world. Boundaries will continue to exist, acting as deterrents to territorial claims and incentives to trans-border cooperation. A logical consequence is that trade, whether legal or illegal, will continue to thrive, maybe not for ever on a global scale, but certainly on the regional and local level. In the second session, Dr. Kheyroddin attempted to demonstrate the new conceptualization of informal space production, focusing on border city of Baneh, as the border city in west of Iran. The presentation of Prof. Limbruger on legal and illegal trade in borders F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Research team members and the Meyor of Baneh. He stated that in the current literature on informal settlement, it is believed that inadequate services, inappropriate quality of housing, socio spatial problems such as lack of job opportunity, the illegal ownership are the characteristics of informal settlements. However in the recent years there is an increasing trend in informal buildings which have totally different attributes. They are luxury, with high quality in physics and service preparation and are created not by the poor population, but the rich households and developers. In fact the unequal system of capital distribution, In addition to poor population and the need to residence and activity (for the increasing population) in the context of inactive system of planning, have caused the creation of such a poor informal settlement. But there is still another reasoning that could be emphasized and that is the equation of the accumulated capital, in addition to the role of informal forces and the Speculative actions in the context of inactive system of formal planning. This equation have caused the new informal space production, which is in turn so luxury. Therefore, it is important to consider the implications of planning in terms of informal actors in such an informal institutional context. The memorial collective photography at the end of the seminar ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 2 " 9 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last redeployments of the EU border regime A glance into the Greek Islands hotspots - Estela Schindel, University of Konstanz Sitting in a café at the port of Lakki, on the island of Leros, waiting for my next interview, I notice a young woman at a nearby table. She is wearing fashionable clothes and a pink headscarf, and is video chatting on her smart phone with what seems to be her relatives. After she finishes, we start up a conversation. The woman, I’ll call her Rasha, speaks little English but with the help of an application on her phone, she translates from and to Arabic and is able to tell me about her situation. She is from Syria and entered Greece through Turkey. Her mother and sister, with whom she was talking, are still living among the bombs and the ruins in Aleppo, and her husband, she says, pointing out at her wedding ring, is waiting for her in a northern European country but she can’t join him. Rasha risked her life crossing the Aegean in a precarious boat ride and now fears that she will be sent back to Turkey after spending eight months of anguish on this island. She extends eight fingers to emphasize the number and breaks into tears. She is desperate. Eight months stuck at an EU hotspot. "30 Although Rasha’s individual story is uniquely moving, it is far from an isolated case. Thousands of people arrived in Greece seeking international protection have been held on five Aegean Islands since the introduction of the “hotspots” policy, especially since the agreement between the European Union and Turkey last March came into force. Accounts and observations collected in a recent field trip to the Greek islands of Kos and Leros and the Turkish coastal area of Bodrum offer insight into some of the consequences of these newly introduced hotspots and related measures in the Aegean. What are the hotspots? The so-called “hotspot approach” was presented as part of the European Migration Agenda in May 2015 and was implemented in the aftermath of the massive arrivals of 2015. It started operating four “registration and identification centers” in Italy and five in Greece, on the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos. The closure of the Balkan route and, especially, the entry in force of the socalled “Turkey Deal” last March, which ABS Executive Secretariat - included the “readmission” of refugees to Turkey from Greece, radically changed the function and operation of these registration and identification centers, now known as hotspots. What used to be a temporary shelter for a stay of a few days or weeks has now become an archipelago of waiting facilities for an undetermined amount of time. The focus has shifted from registration and screening of the individuals in transit before they continued their route to the mainland, to an opaque filtering structure, which, in theory aims to better assess and relocate individuals. Yet in practice it implements returns to Turkey and aims at deterring potential border crossers from making the attempt to cross. Following the first wave of protests of the detention conditions, people in transit were allowed to leave the razor wire fenced perimeter of the center after the first period of registration. However, a “geographical restriction” was introduced that forbid them to leave the island where their data had been collected. Even if they enjoyed “free circulation” on the island, they were given no clarity about their situation and had to live under unintelligible Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A procedural rules. After months of being ‘on hold’, their stay has become an ordeal. By October 2016, many people, like Rasha, had spent eight or nine months in limbo or just waiting and were close to mental collapse. Since March 20, 2016, activists groups and humanitarian organizations have criticized the extreme slowness of the procedures and the harsh living conditions at the hotspots. They have also warned that the registration centers are becoming pre-removal structures unable to sufficiently guarantee basic rights. Shortly after the EU-Turkey agreement, Médecins Sans Frontières has suspended its activities linked to the hotspot, arguing that the agreement would lead to the forced return of migrants and asylum seekers. The organization criticized increasingly restrictive practices and refused to be “instrumentalized for a mass expulsion operation”. UNHCR alerted that under the new provisions, these centers had become detention facilities, and also suspended some of their activities at the center of Moria, in Lesbos. Organizations such as Pro Asyl and Human Rights Watch have reported insufficient medical care, severe overcrowding, catastrophic hygienic conditions, and poor access to information regarding the asylum procedure at the Greek facilities. There have been also reports of inmates being beaten, insulted and attacked with tear gas. Reports also mention clashes between groups of refugees of different nationalities, while the ABS Executive Secretariat - F R O N T E R A 3 police providing security for the site stood by and did nothing to break up the fights. All this, added to the uncertainty and long waiting times contributed to an atmosphere of chaos and insecurity and created the conditions for the revolts that have been taking place at several hotspots though the last months, including setting fire to containers as a protest against the deportations and the slowness of the procedures. Far from easing their situation, the riots gave place to further delays in the processing of their cases. 7 ( 1 ) The location of the hotspots reflects the liminal and abject condition of their inhabitants created by their uncertain and diffuse legal statuses. In Chios, the hotspot Vial is located in a former factory that now functions as a waste processing plant that is still partially in operation (see Kasparek et al. 2016, referred below). In Leros, the center is part of the larger territory of what used to be an infamous psychiatric hospital, an institution that had caused public outrage across Europe in the late 1980s due to the serious maltreatment and death of thousands of mental patients, and was later was used as a concentration camp for thousands of political prisoners during Greece’s dictatorship (1967-1974). I was told that a few houses are still in use for people with mental health problems. Even if they are physically separated and at a distance from the hotspots miniature city of containers, the historical legacy and the symbolic connotations of such places cast their shadow on their present day inmates. Legal limbos and liminalities In this context, it is no wonder that individuals in transit, like Rasha, are on the verge of mental breakdown. Transformed into a sort of laboratory for new forms of border and migration control, the hotspot approach is generating geopolitical paradoxes, legal voids, and especially, devastating living conditions for travelers who are caught in this structure. Most of the Greek hotspot facilities are heavily securitized zones located in the hills, removed from urban or populated areas, without a public transport connection to the rest of the island. Visitors must ask for written permission to the Greek Ministry of Interior to receive access. As the space is overcrowded, hundreds are living outside the actual, razor wired facilities thus giving way to a sort of subsidiary system of humanitarian assistance and control. The most serious criticism is of the larger islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios, but on the smaller islands with fewer numbers of arrivals, like Kos and Leros, the situation is no less critical. Several hundred people, especially cases deemed vulnerable like unaccompanied minors, families with children, pregnant women, and sick or elderly persons, are living in hotels and apartments rented and managed by UNHCR and various NGOs. Still, the staff of organizations assisting refugees feels that, although the numbers of arrivals from Turkey have decreased in the last months, the situation has qualitatively worsened. People, they say, are becoming hopeless and desperate. In Kos an undefined number of people, possibly several hundred – mostly men from Pakistan – opted not to register and went underground. Although clandestine in legal Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 3 " 1 L A terms, their presence is visible and known to the authorities and the population. Most of them live in the open, squat abandoned sites, or sleep at archaeological sites. Several voices expressed concern about what will happen to them during the winter. I have seen them in small groups strolling along the port, or sitting and silently watching the horizon. Some are said to be working informally in the agricultural or tourist industry for two or three Euro per hour. At some point, they may try to leave the island unnoticed. Because they are not registered, they have no access to the benefits and care provided by humanitarian organizations. The Kos Solidarity group, formed by civil volunteers, played a key role during the large waves of arrivals in 2015. These volunteers provided food and first assistance since the local municipality had withdrawn all help. Now, since initial assistance is not the priority, they organize social and cultural activities with the inhabitants of the hotspots, like theatre games for children and Bollywood film screenings, as well as sharing meals and rides to the beach. In organizing these activities, the volunteers want to interact with people in transit as equals not like the NGOs, who they perceive as reproducing asymmetrical power relations. Members of the group have been repeatedly harassed and are increasingly isolated in the context of the mainly refugee-hostile population of the island, where the number of supporters of the far right party Golden Dawn is said to have doubled in the last year. F R O N T E R A 3 power to exclude itself from its own rule and produce forms of (bare) life deprived of full juridical-political status. The geopolitical novum of the legal excision of part of the territory is now being replicated for certain purposes in the current phase of the EU’s border experimentation. In particular, since the developments from last March, five Greek islands are detached not only from continental Greece but also from other, neighboring islands unaffected by the hotspots regulations. This gives way to new alternative migratory routes, yet paradoxically inside Greek territorial waters. Besides the new risks attached to longer navigation routes, in comparison to the 7 ( 1 ) hotspots system. The short trip from Leros to near Kalymnos is said to have cost 900 Euro for the travelers, and a 36-year sentence to the sailor who helped them across. Owners of trailers embarking on ferries to the mainland who had transported hidden asylum seekers also face harsh legal repercussions. By November 8, 2016, authorities reported around 16, 250 people living under these conditions on the five Greek islands. Since many there are unregistered, and others have left the islands unauthorized, this number can only be an estimate. One thing, however, is certain: If their situation is as desperate as Rasha’s, it is no wonder that they will try to leave. Excision: geopolitical experimentation at the borders The term and the policy of excision were used as a device for border and migration control in the context of Australia’s so-called 2001 “Pacific solution”. In order to deter potential asylum seekers from Asia from reaching its coasts, the Australian government made an unprecedented geopolitical move. Under the Migration Amendment Act (Excision from Migration Zone), a series of islands were defined as “excised offshore places”. This meant that for asylum and migration, refugees first arriving to these islands were declared “offshore entry persons” and were outside the rule of normal domestic law. Disrupting the unity of territory, sovereignty, and rule of law for the sake of excluding a priori potential asylum seekers, Australia enacted what Giorgio Agamben considers the prerogative of the sovereign "32 relatively short ride from the Turkish coast, this tendency is creating paradoxical cases of law infringement inside which the legal framework is not completely clear. In another paradox, the “geographical restriction” also means that border enforcement is displaced onto the interior of Greek jurisdictional space. Thus border control becomes outsourced and privatized and includes the personnel of travel agencies selling ferry tickets to other Greek ports. The latter must now check whether their clients are individuals seeking international protection and if the “geographical restriction” applies to them. I heard reports of fishermen and truck owners who were arrested and sentenced severely condemned for taking people to islands unaffected by the ABS Executive Secretariat - This text is a personal account based mostly on field diary notes of my recent research stay in Leros and Kos and on reports available on line. For more detailed information and analysis of the hotspots, including other islands, see Kasparek, B., M. Antonakaki and G. Maniatis, Counting heads and channelling bodies. The hotspot centre Vial in Chios, 2016, http://transitmigration-2.org/ wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ma+bk+gm-vial.hotspot.pdf, Kuster, B. and V. Tsianos, Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn”. Flüchtlinge und Migranten an den Rändern Europas. Hotspot Lesbos, www.boell.de/publikationen, Tazzioli, M., Concentric cages: the hotspots of Lesvos after the E U - Tu r k e y a g re e m e n t , https:// www.opendemocracy.net/mediterraneanjourneys-in-hope/martina-tazzioli/concentriccages-hotspots-of-lesvos-after-eu-turkey, and the contributions by Didier Fassin and Heath Cabot at the series “Refugees and the crisis of Europe” of Cultural Anthropology: https://culanth.org/ fieldsights/911-refugees-and-the-crisis-of-europe Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) New / Upcoming Books by ABS Members! BORDER POLITICS IN A GLOBAL ERA Comparative Perspectives Kathleen Staudt ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 3 " 3 L A Publications Besier, G. & K. Stokłosa, eds. (2017) Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis: From the Soviet Union into Eurasia. Routledge, London. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8494-9. Boyle, E. (2016). Imperial Practice and the Making of Modern Japan's Territory: Towards a Reconsideration of Empire’s Boundaries," Geographical Review of Japan Series B 88(2): 66–79. Brambilla, C. (2015). Dal confine come metodo del capitale al paesaggio di confine come metodo per un’opposizione geografica al capitalismo, Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, serie XIII, vol. VIII, 2015, pp. 393-402 (English version: http:// societageografica.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/ 2016/08/brambilla_eng_3_15.pdf). Brambilla, C. (2015). Il confine come borderscape, Intrasformazione. Rivista di storia delle idee, 4(2), pp. 5-9. Brambilla, C. (2015). The Caprivi Strip and the Botswana/Namibia Border. A Territorial Dispute over Kasikili/Sedudu Island, in E. Brunet-Jailly (ed.), Border Disputes: A Global Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, pp. 69-78. Brambilla, C. (2016). Borderscaping: Politica | Estetica | Trans-territorialità. Nuove agency geografico-politiche nel Mediterraneo “oltre la linea””, Semestrale di Ricerche e Studi di Geografia, serie XXVIII, fascicolo I, gennaiogiugno 2016, pp. 77-90. Brambilla, C. (2016). Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2016, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1115735. Brambilla, C. (2016). From Border as Method of Capital to Borderscape as Method for a Geographical Opposition to Capitalism. Bollettino della Società geografica italiana. Brambilla, C., (2015). Mobile Euro/African Borderscapes: Migrant Communities and Shifting Urban Margins”, in A.-L. Amilhat Szary, F. Giraut (eds), Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders, Palgrave-McMillan, Basingstoke - London, pp. 138-154. Brambilla, C., (2015). Navigating the Euro/ African Border and Migration Nexus Through the Borderscapes Lens: Insights from the LampedusaInFestival”, in C. Brambilla, J. Laine, J. Scott, G. Bocchi (eds), Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 111-121. Brambilla, C., H. Pötzsch (2015). iBorder, Borderscapes, Bordering: A Conversation, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space open site. <http://societyandspace.com/ 2015/03/05/iborder-borderscapes-bordering-aconversation-chiara-brambilla-and-holgerpotzsch/>. Brambilla, C., J. Laine, J. Scott, G. Bocchi (2015). Thinking, Mapping, Acting and Living Borders under Contemporary Globalization”, "34 F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) in C. Brambilla, J. Laine, J. Scott, G. Bocchi and M. Machuca). The Journal of Social Media (eds), Borderscaping: Imaginations and in Society 6:1. Practices of Border Making, Ashgate, Farnham, Correa-Cabrera, G. (forthcoming Spring 2017). pp. 1-9. Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporation, Energy Brambilla, C., J. Laine, J. Scott, G. Bocchi, eds. and Civil War in Mexico. University of Texas (2015). Borderscaping: Imaginations and Press. Practices of Border Making, Ashgate, Dean, J. E. (2016). How Myth Became Farnham. History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Brenner, C.T. (2016). Immigrants and the Borderlands. U of Arizona Press. Obama Urban Policies: Tarnishing the Golden Door In J. DeFilippis (Ed), Urban Policy in the Domaniewski, S. & J. Laine (2015). A Case for Time of Obama, Minneapolis, MN: University the Coexistence of Security and ‘Open' Borders on the Polish-Russian Borderland, of Minnesota Press. Eurolimes 20, 81–96. Cooper, A., ed. (2016). Where are Europe’s Filep, B. (2016). The Politics of Good New Borders? Critical Insights into Neighbourhood. State, Civil Society and the Contemporary European Bordering. London: Enhancement of Cultural Capital in East Routledge. Central Europe. Border Regions Series. Correa-Cabrera, G. (2015). Inequalities and Routledge, London and New York. Global Flows in Mexico’s Northeastern Fullerton, T. M. Jr. & J P. Cárdenas (2016). Border: The Effects of Migration, Commerce, Forecasting Water Demand in Phoenix, Hydrocarbons, and Transnational Organized Arizona, Journal of the American Water Works Crime. Canadian Journal of Latin American Association 108 (10), E533-E545, doi: and Caribbean Studies 40:3, 326-350. dx.doi.org/10.5942/jawwa.2016.108.0156. Correa-Cabrera, G. (2015). Losing the Monopoly of Violence: The State, a Drug War, Fullerton, T. M. Jr., A. Ceballos & A. G. Walke and the Paramilitarization of Organized Crime (2016). Short-Term Forecasting Analysis for Municipal Water Demand, Journal of the in Mexico (2007-2010) (co-authored with American Water Works Association 108 (1), Michelle Keck and Jose Nava). State Crime E27-E38, doi: dx.doi.org/10.5942/jawwa. Journal 4:1, pp. 77-95. 2016.108.0003. Correa-Cabrera, G. (2015). Migración Fullerton, T. M. Jr., A. Jiménez & A. G. Walke Indocumentada, Crimen Organizado y Trata (2015). 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Workers, Parties and a "New Deal:" A Comparative Analysis of Corporatist Alliances in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1940” (co-authored with R. A. Ragland). Labor History 57:3, pp. 323-346. Correa-Cabrera, G. (2017, Forthcoming). Citizen Journalism: From Thomas in Boston to Twitter in Tamaulipas: A Case Study. (co-authored with R. A. Ragland ABS Executive Secretariat - Hesz, R. & Jaschitz, M. (2016). Operational conditions of Hungarian EGTCs. Assessment of socio-economic and geographic preconditions for crossborder cooperation – a benchmarking exercise. In Svensson, S. & Ocskay, Gy. (eds): Overview of the EGTCs around Hungary. Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives, Budapest, pp 52-93. Johnson, C. and Jones, R. in press. ‘The Biopolitics and Geopolitics of Border Enforcement in Melilla.’ Territory, Politics, Governance. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/21622671.2016.1236746 Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A Jones, R. (2016). Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso: New York. Jones, R. and Johnson, C. (2016). ‘Border Militarization and the Rearticulation of Sovereignty.’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41(2): 187-200. Laine, J. (2015). A Historical View on the Study of Borders. In: Sevastianov, S. V., J. Laine & A. Kireev, eds. Introduction to Border Studies, 14-32. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. Laine, J. (2015). Threats, Challenges, and Finnish-Russian Cross-Border Security Cooperation: A Finnish Perspective, Eurolimes 20, 125–142 Laine, J. (2016, in press). Finnish-Russian Border Mobility and Tourism: localism overruled by geopolitics. In: D. Hall, ed. Tourism and Geopolitics: Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe. CABI, Wallingford. Laine, J. (2016). Building a Transnational Space for Action: civil society organizations as agents of change at the Finnish– Russian border. International Studies 50 (1&2), 1–19, DOI: 10.1177/0020881716654407. F R O N T E R A 3 Leuenberger, C. (with R. Jones and E. Wills) (2016). The West Bank Wall, Journal of Borderlands Studies, pp. 1-9. Leuprecht C, Aulthouse A, Walther O. 2016. The puzzling resilience of transnational organized criminal networks. Police Practice and Research 17(4): 376-387. Liikanen, I. (2016) Changing Spatial Imaginaries and Sovereignty Concepts of EU Neighbourhood Policies. In I. Liikanen, J. W. Scott and T. Sotkasiira (eds), The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. Migration, Borders and Regional Stability. Routledge, London. Liikanen, I., J W. Scott and T. Sotkasiira (eds) (2016) The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. Migration, Borders and Regional Stability. Routledge, London. Luzman F, N., C. Brown, K. Demeter, F. Lasserre, M. Milances-Murcia, S. Mumme & S. Sandoval-Solis, Existing opportunities to adapt the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin Water Resources Allocation Regime, (published online July 15, 2016) Water, 8:7 (2016) 291-313. Marsico, G. (2016). The Borderland. Culture & Psychology, 22(2), 206–215, DOI: 10.1177/1354067X15601199 Laine, J. (2016). European Civic Neighbourhood: towards a bottom-up agenda Meier, D. (2016). The blind spot: Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon, in M.Felsh across borders. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, DOI:10.1111/tesg.12211. and M. Wahlish (eds), Lebanon and the Arab Uprisings: In the Eye of the Hurricane, Laine, J. (2016). The Multiscalar Production of London, Routledge, pp.104-118. Borders. Geopolitics 21:3, 465-482, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2016.1195132. Meier, D. ed. (2016). Les frontières dans le monde arabe. Special Issue, Orients Laine, J. (2017). Shifting Borders: Stratégiques, 4. 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Immigration, Containment and Transgression in The Lonely Londoners. Culture, Theory and Critique 57.1 (2016): 121-136. DOI 10.1080/14735784.2015.1111157. Madsen, K. D. & D.B. Ruderman (2016). Robert Frost’s ambivalence: Borders and boundaries in poetic and political discourse. Political Geography. 55: 82-91. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.06.003 Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 3 " 5 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) GEOGRAPHIES FOR PEACE / GEOGRAFÍAS PARA LA PAZ 2017 IGU-UGI Thematic Conference 23-25 April 2017 La Paz - Bolivia (To view the information in Spanish, please click here.) The International Geographical Union (IGU-UGI) The Thematic Conference in La Paz will be focused on peace and the contribution of geography to it. It will be held on 23, 24 and 25 April 2017, in combination with another major international scientific event, “EGAL, XVI ENCUENTRO DE GEÓGRAFOS DE AMÉRICA LATINA” (EGAL The 16th Meeting of Latin American Geographers), which will take place from 26 to 29 April in the same city. Geography has often been accused of being applied to waging war. Yet, it also offers a vast array of contributions to the construction of peace. The thematic conference “GEOGRAPHIES FOR PEACE/ GEOGRAFÍAS PARA LA PAZ” will highlight the various contributions of geography to the construction of peace. Peace is here widely defined. Peace is always shaped by the spaces in which it is made, as it too shapes those spaces. Peace means different things to different groups in different times, spaces, places, and scales. Peace can be created at the scale of the individual, the family, the community, the nation, and/or at other scales, but these different scales are often intertwined. Peace is a situated and spatial process – and as such is necessarily plural. Therefore, geographers are particularly well placed to research it, and to draw lines that connect the pieces of differently situated peaces. The thematic conference “GEOGRAPHIES FOR PEACE/ GEOGRAFÍAS PARA LA PAZ” will cover all possible dimensions, from the historical perspective, to forecasting, through the role of education or tourism, and the political analysis of war and peace. Therefore, several IGU Commissions may be involved in the organisation of the different sessions. The working languages of the Conference are English and Spanish. Abstracts can be submitted in either or both languages. Presentations will be in either English or Spanish. Limited interpretation will be available. All presenters are kindly asked to adapt their speech tempo to their audience. Participants presenting in Spanish are kindly asked to complement their talk with a power point presentation in English – and vice versa. For more info, please click here * "36 * * * Consider e.g. panel: B.8. Common Histories and Border Ethics beyond Securitization Anna Casaglia, anna.casaglia@uef.fi Jussi Laine, jussi.laine@uef.fi James W. Scott, james.scott@uef.fi The representation of the border as a line to be defended from threats and as a metaphoric wall separating clashing cultures, does not allow us to focus on the complexity of the frontier and of the actors crossing it, living it and experiencing it every day. A genealogic and relational perspective on the frontier can highlight its geopolitical multiplicity and can avoid reducing it to a line in the sand dividing incompatible worlds. A historical approach can, in fact, unveil connections, mixes, and overlapping traces that go beyond dichotomous ideas and representations of borders and the processes related to them. The dividing nature of borders is often emphasized in order to obscure the reality of common pasts, as is the case in Europe (e.g. the Mediterranean region, East v West) and in the Americas (as exemplified by border communities). The effort to engage with the past implies the possibility to engage an ethics of the border in terms of its management, the way we study and represent borders, and ways in which rediscovering of the “Other” can take place in a relational and historical connection with “Us”. Narratives of conflict often prevail in current circumstances of securitization. This panel therefore invites proposals that offer a situated, historical and complex vision in analysing the border, providing evidence of common border ABS Executive Secretariat - histories. We invite papers that underline ethical aspects that can emerge when considering borders from a historical and relational approach. Papers can focus on the Mediterranean, the Americas, or other examples of frontier regions where emergency situations hide the complexity of the border. * * * * Abstracts, in Spanish or English, should be written on a blank page, which should only contain the following elements: 1. Name 2. Institutional affiliation /country of residence 3. Title of paper 4. Title of session 5. Summary: a brief description (maximum 250 words) of the content of the proposed work, referring to the methodology, objectives and expected conclusions. 6. Keywords (maximum 6). The text should be typed using standard 12, font Times New Roman, simple space Abstracts should be sent to the organizer of the session and to the email geographiesforpeace@gmail.com Deadline 1 December 2016 Acceptance is final only after the opinion of the Scientific Committee and receiving payment of registration at the conference. Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Association for Borderlands Studies Members 2016 Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Acharya Ram New Mexico State University USA acharyar@nmsu.edu Agnew Heather UCLA USA heatheragnew@ucla.edu Alper Donald Western Washington University USA donald.alper@wwu.edu Alvarez Perez Xose Afonso Universidad de Alcalá Spain xoseafonso.alvarez@gmail.com Amilhat-Szary Anne-Laure Université de Grenoble, PACTE CNRS France anne-laure.amilhat@univ-grenoblealpes.fr Anders Rainer-Elk Staffordshire University UK r.e.anders@staffs.ac.uk Anderson Joan University of San Diego USA joana@sandiego.edu Arriaga Martínez Rafael Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico rarriaga@uabc.edu.mx Atlas Pierre M. Marian University USA patlas@marian.edu Baare Anton RP/WorldBank USA abaare@worldbank.org Bara Safarova Texas A&M University USA barasafa@tamu.edu Barajas Tinoco Margarita Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico mbarajas@uabc.edu.mx Barnes Diana Myatt Skidmore College USA dbarnes@skidmore.edu Barraza Patricia Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Mexico mbarraza@uacj.mx Barrera Flor Urbina Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Mexico flor.urbia@ucij.mx Barthel Martin University of Eastern Finland Finland martin.barthel@uef.fi Bass-Zavala Sonia El Colegio de México Mexico basz.sonia@gmail.com Belec John University of the Fraser Valley Canada john.belec@ufv.ca Besier Gerhard Sigmund Neumann Institute Germany gbesier@aol.com Biersack John University of Kansas USA biersack@ku.edu Biger Gideon Tel Aviv University Israel bigergideon@gmail.com Bille Franck University of California Berkeley USA fbille@berkeley.edu Boesen Elisabeth University of Luxembourg Luxembourg elisabeth.boesen@uni.lu Boyle Edward Hokkaido University Japan tedkboyle@gmail.com Brambilla Chiara University of Bergamo Italy chiara.brambilla@unibg.it Breitung Werner Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University China breitung@gmail.com Brenner Christine University of Massachusetts USA christine.brenner@umb.edu Brewer Adam Idaho State University USA brewadam@isu.edu Brown Chris New Mexico State University USA brownchr@nmsu.edu Brunet-Jailly Emmanuel University of Victoria Canada ebrunetj@uvic.ca Bukh Alexander Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand abukh70@gmail.com Bullock Kathleen T. Wayland Baptist University USA kathleen.bullock@wayland.wbu.edu Bustos Cortés Alejandro Mexico abustoscortes@gmail.com ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 3 " 7 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Bürkner Hans-Joachim Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space Germany hans-joachim.buerkner@leibniz-irs.de Cabrera Irene Universidad Externado de Colombia Colombia irene.cabrera@uexternado.edu.co Cardona Aceveda Marleny Universidad de Manizales Colombia mcardona@umanizales.edu.co Carrera Zamanillo Isabel University of Washington, D.C. USA micz@uw.edu Casey Meghan University of Kent UK mc763@kent.ac.uk Castan Pinos Jaume University of Southern Denmark Denmark jaume@sam.sdu.dk Chi Naomi Hyunjoo Hokkaido University Japan n_chi@hops.hokudai.ac.jp Chida Tetsuro Hokkaido University Japan tetsuroch@slav.hokudai.ac.jp Christmann Nathalie Universityof Luxembourg Luxembourg nathalie.christmann@uni.lu Chung Alex University of Notre Dame Australia Australia alex.chung1@my.nd.edu.au Coletti Raffaella University of Rome Italy raffaella.coletti@uniroma1.it Collins Kimberly California State University, San Bernardino USA kimberly@csusb.edu Corcoran Amy Queen Mary University of London UK a.f.w.corcoran@qmul.ac.uk Coronado Irasema University of Texas at El Paso Canada icoronado@utep.edu Coronado Roberto Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas USA roberto.coronado@dal.frb.org Corrales Salvador El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico corrales_s@hotmail.com Correa-Cabrera Guadalupe The University of Texas at Brownsville USA guadalupe.correacabrera@utb.edu Covarrubias Jose Universidad de Deusto Spain jdcova@orkestra.deusto.es Crnjak Marijan University of Zagreb Croatia marijan.crnjak@outlook.com Dabova Elena Saint Petersburg State University Russia lenadabovasbpgu@gmail.com Dahlman Carl Miami University USA dahlmac@miamioh.edu Damiani Isabella Université de Versailles Saint-Quentinen-Yvelines France isabella.damiani@uvsq.fr Daud Ramlah Universiti Malaysia Sabah Malaysia ramlah_rd@yahoo.com De Leon Marycruz Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas USA marycruz.deleon@dal.frb.org De sy Carine Idaho State University USA desycari@isu.edu Dean John Texas A&M International University USA john.dean@tamiu.edu Diener Alexander University of Kansas USA diener@ku.edu Dolzblasz Sylwia University of Wrocław Poland sylwia@vm.pl Dorfman Adriana Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil adriana.dorfman@ufrgs.br Dragon Genevieve Institut des Amériques de Rennes France genevieve.dragon@gmail.com Drost-Wollbrecht Alexander University of Greifswald Germany alexander.drost@uni-greifswald.de Eliaz Juni Mexico universityofsaarland Epasto Simona Università di Macerata Italy simona.epasto@unimc.it Eselebor Willie University of Ibadan Nigeria willivizz@gmail.com "38 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Eskelinen Heikki University of Eastern Finland Finland heikki.eskelinen@uef.fi Español Alicja University of Seville Spain aespanol@us.es Figueroa Ramírez Silvia Leticia Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico lfigueroa@uabc.edu.mx French Laurence University of New Hampshire USA frogwnmu@yahoo.com Friedman Kate University at Buffalo USA kbf@buffalo.edu Fryer Paul University of Eastern Finland Finland paul.fryer@uef.fi Fuentes Cesar M El Colegio de la Frontera Norte USA cfuentes1163@yahoo.com Furukawa Koji Chukyo University Japan kojif@mecl.chukyo-u.ac.jp Gandle David University of Regensburg Germany dlgandle3@gmail.com Ganster Paul San Diego State University USA pganster@mail.sdsu.edu García Compeán Rosa Alicia University of Texas at El Paso Mexico rcompean10@hotmail.com Garrett Terence University of Texas USA terence.garrett@utrgv.edu Gasparini Alberto University of Trieste Italy gasparin@units.it Gerber James San Diego State University USA jgerber@mail.sdsu.edu Gibson Huston Kansas State University USA hgibson@ksu.edu Gilbert Emily University of Toronto Canada emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca Golubev Alexey University of British Columbia Canada golubevalexei@gmail.com Golunov Sergey University of Tartu Estonia sergei.golunov@gmail.com Gonzalez Mendoza Julio Alfonso Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander Colombia alfonsogonzalez@ufps.edu.co Graw-Teebken Andrea Region Sønderjylland-Schleswig Denmark agt@region.dk Green Alexandra Queen's University Kingston Canada 12apjg@queensu.ca Green Sarah University of Helsinki Finland sarah.green@helsinki.fi GuillermoRamirez Martin Martin Association of European Border Regions Germany m.guillermo@aebr.eu Habmo Birwe France birwehabmo@gmail.com Hale Geoffrey University of Lethbridge Canada geoffrey.hale@uleth.ca Halicka Beata Polish-German Research Institute Poland halicka@europa-uni.de Hanamatsu Yasunori Kyushu University Japan Japan hanamatsu@slav.hokudai.ac.jp Hansen Ellen Emporia State University USA ehansen@emporia.edu Harrington Louise University of Alberta Canada louise.harrington@ualberta.ca Haugseth Peter UiT-The Arctic Univeristy of Norway Norway peter.haugseth@uit.no Helleiner Jane Brock University Canada jhelleiner@brocku.ca Henkel David S. University of New Mexico USA cymro@unm.edu Herrera Pedro Mexico pedroherreraledesma@gmail.com ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 3 " 9 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Heyman Josiah University of Texas at El Paso USA jmheyman@utep.edu Hlongwana James Great Zimbabwe University Zimbabwe jameshlongwana@gmail.com Houchon Clotilde The University of Utah USA a.c.houchon@utah.edu Howard Ian UNSW Australia Australia ian.howard@unsw.edu.au Hung Po-Yi National Tawain University Taiwan poyihung@ntu.edu.tw Itani Hiroshi Hokkaido University Japan hiroshi_itani@hotmail.com Iwashita Akihiro Hokkaido University Japan akotaro@msi.biglobe.ne.jp Jaschitz Mátyás CESCI Hungary jasmatyi@gmail.com Jones Manina University of Western Ontario Canada mjones@uwo.ca Jones Reece University of Hawaii USA reecej@hawaii.edu Jones Colin Doshisha Law School Japan cjones@mail.doshisha.ac.jp Jose Miguel Brazil escreve.ze@gmail.com Järviö Pekka Jarvio Associates Finland jarvio.associates@welho.com Kaisto Virpi University of Eastern Finland Finland virpi.kaisto@uef.fi Kasonga Mbombo University of Ilorin Nigeria jm.mbombo@yahoo.com Kawakubo Fuminori Chuo Gakin University Japan kawakubo1208@hotmail.com Kenmei Tsubota CORE and Kyoto University the Netherlands kenmei.tsubota@gmail.com Kennard Ann Waitrose Ltd UK ann.kennard@waitrose.com Kireev Anton Far Eastern Federal University Russia antalkir@yandex.ru Klatt Martin University of Southern Denmark Denmark mk@sam.sdu.dk Konrad Victor Carleton University Canada vkonrad@hotmail.com Kormoll Raphaela University of Durham Kruszewski Anthony University of Texas at El Paso USA zkruszew@utep.edu Kuehl Joergen A. P. Møller Skolen Germany joergen_kuehl@skoleforeningen.de Kurki Tuulikki University of Eastern Finland Finland tuulikki.kurki@uef.fi Laine Jussi University of Eastern Finland Finland jussi.laine@uef.fi Lara Maldonado Marisol Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico lara.marisol@uabc.edu.mx Lara-Valencia Francisco Arizona State University USA francisco.lara@asu.edu Lee Rodney University of Windsor Canada llrodney@gmail.com Leick Birgit University of Bayreuth Germany birgit.leick@uni-bayreuth.de Leloup Fabienne Catholic University of Louvain Belgium fabienne.leloup@uclouvain-mons.be Lennard Nickel University of Muenster Germany lennard@nickel-hamburg.de Liikanen Ilkka University of Eastern Finland Finland ilkka.liikanen@uef.fi "40 ABS Executive Secretariat - UK r.t.kormoll@durham.ac.uk Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Lintz Cindy American Research Center in Sofia, Virginia Tech USA lintz4@hotmail.com Lipiainen Tatjana University of Eastern Finland Finland tatjana.lipiainen@uef.fi Lorena Monica Sanchez Limon Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas Mexico msanchel@uat.edu.mx Lunden Thomas Södertörn University Sweden thomas.lunden@sh.se Lybecker Donna Idaho State University USA lybedonn@isu.edu Lähteenmäki Maria University of Eastern Finland Finland maria.lahteenmaki@uef.fi Madsen Kenneth The Ohio State University at Newark USA madsen.34@osu.edu Mammadov Alibay Hokkaido University Japan alibay.aze@gmail.com Manzanarez Magdaleno Western New Mexico University USA vibora58@gmail.com Marsico Giuseppina Aalborg University, University of Salerno Italy pina.marsico@gmail.com Martin Kerntopf University of Greifswald Germany martin.kerntopf@uni-greifswald.de Martinez Oscar University of Arizona USA martineo@email.arizona.edu Martínez Romero Javier Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Mexico javier.martinez@uacj.mx Martinez Zalce Graciela Universidad Nacional Mexico zalce@unam.mx Massey Claire University of the Saarland Germany claire.massey@uni-saarland.de Matajira Vera Jorge University of Los Andes Venezuela jmatajira@hotmail.com Mauricio Marrufo Rafael Mexico rafael.mauricio@uacj.mx Mayer Evelyn Germany evelynmayer@gmx.net Mbaezue Emmanuel C University of Ibadan Nigeria mekmanuels@gmail.com Mbenga Bernard North West University South Africa bernard.mbenga@nwu.ac.za Regina Oklahoma City University USA ramcmanigell@okcu.edu Bhuian University of Chittagong Bangladesh Medina Sergio Peña El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico spena@colef.mx Meier Daniel St Antony’s College UK daniel.meier@graduateinstitute.ch Meissner Andrea Viadriana University Frankfurt Oder Germany meissner@europa-uni.de Mendoza Cota Jorge Eduardo El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico emendoza@colef.mx Michely Eva University of Saarland Germany e.michely@mx.uni-saarland.de Mineta Shiro Waseda University Japan s.mineta@outlook.com Mitsuhiro Mimura Japan mimura@erina.or.jp Mohamadou Abdoul Senegal mohamadou.abdoul@giz.de Monteiro José Alexandre Universidade do Minho Portugal zealexmonteiro@gmail.com Montoya T. Mark Northern Arizona University USA t.montoya@nau.edu Moullé François Université d'Artois France francois.moulle@univ-artois.fr McManigell Grijalva Md. Monoar Kabir ABS Executive Secretariat - Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Saarland University, Saarbrücken and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia GIZ Regional Office Senegal and Guinea Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 4 " 1 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Moyo Inocent University of South Africa South Africa minnoxa@yahoo.com Mumme Stephen Colorado State University USA smumme@colostate.edu Namsaraeva Sayana Cambridge University UK sn444@cam.ac.uk Newman David Ben Gurion University Israel newman@exchange.bgu.ac.il Nicol Heather Trent University Canada heathernicol@trentu.ca Nielsen Henrik University of Eastern Finland Finland henrik.nielsen@uef.fi Nienaber Birte University of Luxembourg Luxembourg birte.nienaber@uni.lu Niño Contreras Lya Margarita Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexico lnino@uabc.edu.mx Novak Paolo Soas UK pn4@soas.ac.uk Oda Ángel Francisco Institutos Cervantes de Mánchester y Leeds UK oda.francisco@gmail.com Oliveras Gonzalez Xavier El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico xoliveras@colef.mx Opilowska Elzbieta Poland opilowska@wbz.uni.wroc.pl Ortiz Esparza Guadalupe Mexico guadalupe.ortiz@uacj.mx Ozaki Toshie USA grainofwisdom@gmail.com Padilla Hector University of Texas at El Paso USA hpadilla@uacj.mx Payan Tony Rice University USA payan.tony@gmail.com Peach James T. New Mexico State University USA jpeach@nmsu.edu Pederson Wiliam Northern Arizona University USA william.pederson@nau.edu Pequeño Consuelo Mexico cpequeno@uacj.mx Perez Agustin Sandez USA agustin.sandez@uabc.edu.mx Picard-Ami Maria Mexico malupicardami@gmail.com Pick James University of Redlands USA james_pick@redlands.edu Piipponen Minna University of Eastern Finland Finland minna.piipponen@uef.fi Plaut Shayna University of British Columbia Canada shayna.plaut@gmail.com Powner Les Keele University UK l.powner@keele.ac.uk R Stoddard Ellwyn University of Texas at El Paso USA lediva@sbcglobal.net Rakesh Pangasa Northern Arizona University USA pangasa@nau.edu Ramirez Manuel Uni. Of Texas USA ramirez@psy.utexas.edu Rathke Johann Technische Universität Dresden Germany johann.rathke@forst.tu-dresden.de Ray Jayita Independent Researcher Australia jayita@bigpond.com Reich Peter Whittier Law School USA preich@law.whittier.edu Reichert-Schick Anja Universität Trier Germany anja.reichert@uni-trier.de Reitel Bernard Université d'Artois France bernard.reitel@univ-artois.fr Resendiz Ramon University of Washington USA resendiz@uw.edu "42 Willy Brandt Center,Wroclaw University Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Reyes Victoria Bryn Mawr College USA vreyes@brynmawr.edu Richardson Paul University of Manchester UK paulrichardson79@hotmail.com Rivera-Nunez Nina USA ninarivera-nunez@live.com Robles Barbara J Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System USA barbara.j.robles@frb.gov Ana University of Texas, El Paso USA arodriguez132@utep.edu José Guadalupe Unidad Regional Norte Universidad de Sonora Mexico joserodriguez@nogales.uson.mx Rodriguez Nino Roxana Estudios Fronterizos Portugal estudiosfronterizos.org@gmail.com Roman Belinda St. Mary’s University USA belinda.roman@gmail.com Ryan Richard San Diego State University USA rryan@mail.sdsu.edu RytövuoriApunen Helena Kristiina University of Tampere Finland helena.rytovuori-apunen@uta.fi Saenz Rivera Sergio Peña El Paso Community College USA ssaenzri@epcc.edu Saleem Ali H University of Queensland Australia saleem@alum.mit.edu Salisbury David University of Richmond USA dsalisbu@richmond.edu Satriyo Agung Faculty of Geography UGM Yogyakarta Indonesia agungsatriyo@geo.ugm.ac.id Schaefer Patrick C University of Texas at El Paso USA pcschaefer@utep.edu Scherm Ilona TU Chemnitz Germany ilona.scherm@phil.tu-chemnitz.de Schimanski Johan University of Oslo & Arctic University of Tromsø Norway johan.schimanski@uit.no Schindel Estela Konstanz University Germany estela.schindel@uni-konstanz.de Schmid Florian GFGZ Germany florianschmid@bluewin.ch Scott James Unisversity of Eastern Finland Finland james.scott@uef.fi Seok Park Jong Kyushu University Japan bluecrowpark@yahoo.com Sezgin Ervin Istanbul Technical University Turkey ervinsezgin@gmail.com Sierra de Rodriguez Olga Marina UFPS Colombia marsierra51@gmail.com Silvasti Markus Laurea University of Applied Sciences Finland markus.silvasti@laurea.fi Simi Gianlluca The University of Nottingham UK gianlluca.simi@nottingham.ac.uk Sitohang Lidya University of Nijmegen the Netherlands lidyalestari.sitohang@gmail.com Skogberg Eastman Cari Lee University of Colorodo USA cari.skogberg@colorado.edu Sohn Christophe LISER - Luxembourg Luxembourg christophe.sohn@ceps.lu Solomeshch Ilya Petrozavodsk State University Russia isol@sampo.ru Staudt Kathleen University of Texas at El Paso USA kstaudt@utep.edu Steinberger Sofie Universität zu Köln Germany sofiesteinberger@gmx.de Stoklosa Katarzyna University of Southern Denmark Denmark stoklosa@sam.sdu.dk Strauss Michael J. Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques, Université Paris Descartes France m.strauss@wanadoo.fr Rodriguez Camargo Rodríguez Gutiérrez ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 4 " 3 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Swayamprakash Ramya Michigan State University USA ramya.swayamprakash@gmail.com Szytniewski Bianca Radboud University and University Utrecht the Netherlands b.szytniewski@fm.ru.nl Taillon Ruth Queen's University Belfast UK r.taillon@qub.ac.uk Taisho Nakayama Kyoto University Japan gennakayama@hotmail.com Takagi Akihiko Kyushu University Japan takagi@lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp Tapaninaho Antti University of Eastern Finland Finland antti2610@gmail.com Taylor Lawrence Douglas El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico ltaylor@colef.mx Teufel Nicolai University of Bayreuth Germany nicolai.teufel@uni-bayreuth.de Thomas John Quinnipiac University Connecticut USA john.thomas@quinnipiac.edu Tiliks Raitis State Border Guard Latvia raitis.tiliks@gmail.com Torres Raines Rosario Texas A&M University-San Antonio USA rtorresr@tamusa.tamus.edu Trautman Laurie Western Washington University USA laurie.trautman@wwu.edu Tres Joaquin Inter American Development Bank USA jtres@iadb.org Trillo-Santamaria Juan-Manuel University of Santiago de Compostela Spain juan.m.trillo.s@gmail.com Trimbach David The University of Kansas USA davetrimbach@ku.edu Tripathi Dhananjay South Asian University India dhananjay@sau.ac.in Tsuji Tamura Keiko The University of Kitakyushu Japan keikott@kitakyu-u.ac.jp Tulppo Paula University of Lapland Finland pjoona@ulapland.fi van der Velde Martin Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands m.vandervelde@ru.nl van Houtum Henk Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands h.vanhoutum@fm.ru.nl Vandervalk Sandy Carleton University Canada sandy.vandervalk@gmail.com Varady Robert G University of Arizona USA rvarady@email.arizona.edu VaughanWilliams Nick University of Warwick UK n.vaughan-williams@warwick.ac.uk Venken Machteld Universität Wien Austria machteld.venken@univie.ac.at Walter Oliver University of Southern Denmark Denmark ow@sam.sdu.dk Warren Scott Daniel Arizona State University USA sdwarren@asu.edu Wastian Christopher University of Bremen Austria borders@gmx.eu Werner Lippert Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA lippert@iup.edu Widdis Randy University of Regina Canada randy.widdis@uregina.ca Wilke Annekathrin Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance Germany Germany wilke.annekathrin@googlemail.com Wille Christian University of Luxembourg Luxembourg christian.wille@uni.lu Williams Edward J University of Arizona USA edwill@cableone.net Wills Numoipre Edward Border Communities Development Agency Nigeria numoiprewills@gmail.com Wilson Tamar Diana University of Missouri USA tamardiana@yahoo.com "44 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) Last name First name Affiliation Country Email Wolfe Stephen University Of Tromso Norway stephen.wolfe@uit.no Wonders Nancy Northern Arizona University USA nancy.wonders@gmail.com Woolson Maria University of Arizona USA mwoolson@email.arizona.edu Yndigegn Carsten University of Southern Denmark Denmark cy@sam.sdu.dk Young Julie York University Canada juliey@yorku.ca Zebich-Knos Michele Kennesaw State University USA mzebich@kennesaw.edu Zorbach Jörg Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Germany joergzorbach@gmail.com Zorko Marta University of Zagreb Croatia mzorkofpzg@gmail.com Zulfiqur Rahman Mirza Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati India mirzalibra10@gmail.com ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland 4 " 5 L A F R O N T E R A 3 7 ( 1 ) La Frontera The Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) is the leading international scholarly association dedicated exclusively to the systematic interchange of ideas and information relating to international border areas. Founded in 1976 with the original emphasis on the study of the United States-Mexico borderlands region, the Association has grown steadily. It now encompasses an interdisciplinary membership of scholars at more than one hundred academic, governmental institutions, and NGOs representing the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. La Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) es la principal entidad internacional y académica que se dedica exclusivamente al intercambio constante de ideas e información relacionadas con las áreas fronterizas internacionales. Fundada en 1976 con el original énfasis en el estudio de la región fronteriza entre Estados Unidos y México, la asociación ha estado en constante crecimiento. A día de hoy, abarca la sociedad interdisciplinaria de miembros académicos para más de cien instituciones gubernamentales y académicas, y para ONG presentes en América, Asia, África y Europa. MEMBERSHIP Membership benefits include the Journal of Borderlands Studies, our online newsletter, La Fronterra. Members receive information about international borderlands conferences. JOURNAL Our primary publication is the Journal of Borderlands Studies, published four times a year. It has, for more than a decade, distinguished itself as a leading forum for borderlands research. CONFERENCES ABS Annual Meetings are held with the Western Social Science Association‘s annual conference. Next conference will be in April 8-11, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. FUTURE CONFERENCES • 2017 San Francisco, California – April 12 – 15 • 2018 San Antonio, Texas – April 4 – 7 • 2019 San Diego, California – April 24 – 27 RESOURCES ABS is in the process of forging links with other research institutions internationally, most recently with The Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR). ABS and CIBR have collaborated in the compilation of an extensive selected Borders Bibliography. The bibliography contains work on state borders, border regions, borderlands, cross-border cooperation and trans-national governance. It is available in sections corresponding to regional categories, or can be accessed as a single file ordered alphabetically by author. Suggestions for new references are welcome. Contact: absexec@uef.fi ABS is endeavoring to keep the links as accurate and upto-date as possible. Officers Dr. Martha Patricia Barraza de Anda — President Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera — President Elect & 2017 Conference Chair Dr. Francisco Lara — Vice President Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly — 2nd Vice President Dr. Akihiro Iwashita — Past President Dr. Jussi P. Laine — Executive Secretary & Treasurer Dr. James W. Scott — Vice Executive Secretary Board of Directors 2013-2016 Term Dr. Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary Dr. Paul P. Richardson Dr. T. Mark Montoya 2014-2017 Term Dr. Joan B. Anderson Dr. Adriana Dorfman Dr. Christophe Sohn 2015-2018 Term Dr. Laurie Trautman Dr. Dhananjay Tripathi Dr. César Fuentes Executive Secretary Contact by email: absexec@uef.fi or via mail at: ABS Executive Secretariat c/o Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland PO Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland "46 ABS Executive Secretariat - Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland - PO Box 111 - FI-80101 - Joensuu, Finland