Brown Bag: De-bordering and Re-bordering Processes in SEE

13:00 - 14:00 VeranstalterIn Zentrum für Südosteuropastudien, SOEGA Teilnahme Termin vormerken Online BB: Marta Zorko - De-bordering and Re-bordering Processes in SEE The processes of De-bordering and Re-bordering in South East Europe interchange on daily basis. When thinking of the process of making borders and/or crossing borders in contemporary world, three variables are affecting borderlands; border dynamic (daily exchange of peoples and goods), migration flows (regular and irregular), and security. Those variables are the key challenges for EU external border as well. On the other hand EU external border in the region of Western Balkans is a frontier rather than a border. The externalization of European borders has many levels as well as accompanied mechanisms. At the same time different kinds of crisis left an imprint on ongoing processes of bordering practice and changed its dynamics. The migration crisis in 2015/2016 opened numerous issues and affected all the countries along the Balkan route as well as European Union member states.