… Overall, a jointly agreed definition of Social Economy and Social Economy actors across
the EU is considered vital. Such a definition will facilitate a more general appreciation and …

… Firstly, inter-state cooperation over border controls was strengthened by European anti-terrorist
and immigration policy. Secondly, European integration helped to establish a framework …

… social cohesion. This study offers a contribution for decreasing the economic and social
disadvantages of EU border … between institutional EU cross-border cooperation and social …

… the conceptualization of social space and its workings. Through the investigation of borders
we realize that there can be no hegemonic dominance of any specific social theory, whether …

… However, in what we might call the political economy of borders, social and economic
processes play a profound role in shaping territoriality. A political economy perspective is …

… level of social practices at and across borders. On this view … at cooperation with the EU and
at the EU’s external border aim at … social affairs, economic development, minority rights, cross-…

… of a region suffering from weak governance, but it is also promoted by the cross-border
nature of economic activities and social ties. What explains these patterns in the four …

… of cross-border social dumping as a legal geographic question. While critical analyses
look at social dumping as a product of the asymmetrical attribution of competences in the EU …

… EU member states and post-socialist economies). And they refigure the scalar hierarchy
and modify the position of specific places within this hierarchy. There are at least nine ways in …

… from the pure economic effects of removing a border to socio-… Similarly to the economic
approach, however, border effects … of border effects, and in particular of supply-side border effects…