Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states
and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about …

ABSTRACT In 2020, over 8,400 people made their way from France to the UK coast using
small vessels. They did so principally in order to claim asylum in the United Kingdom (UK) …

This article advances the understanding of borders with respect to their epistemological,
ontological, and empirical intersections with violence and conflict, which remain …

As COVID-19 spreads, new processes, forms, and scales of bordering practices are
transcending national territorial limits. This commentary critiques how 'viral borders' are …

This article explores recent shifts in the governance of British migration and welfare regimes,
considering how far a so called'authoritarian turn'(Tyler, 2018) in immigration policy has …

In recent years, critical border studies have developed sophisticated concepts and
methodologies for exploring the multifaceted spatialities, sociologies and temporalities of …

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the 'borderscapes' concept in border
studies and cognate fields. However, there is a lack of dialogue amongst the proliferating …

This study integrates Lefebvre's theory of space production with the local border perspective
as a theoretical basis to analyze the dynamic impacts of tourism development on changes to …

International boundaries have been mainly considered as barriers in literature on the 'cross-
border regional innovation system'(CBRIS), in line with their traditional understanding. In this …

This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling of welfare
and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face the …