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Cassidy, Kathryn. "Where can I get free? Everyday bordering, everyday incarceration." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 44, no. 1 (October 11, 2018): 48–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12273.
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Tervonen, Miika, Saara Pellander, and Nira Yuval-Davis. "Everyday Bordering in the Nordic Countries." Nordic Journal of Migration Research 8, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2018-0019.
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Yuval-Davis, Nira, Georgie Wemyss, and Kathryn Cassidy. "Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation." Sociology 52, no. 2 (May 22, 2017): 228–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038517702599.
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The article argues that everyday bordering has become a major technology of control of both social diversity and discourses on diversity, in a way that threatens the convivial co-existence of pluralist societies, especially in metropolitan cities, as well as reconstructs everyday citizenship. The article begins with an outline of a theoretical and methodological framework, which explores bordering, the politics of belonging and a situated intersectional perspective for the study of the everyday. It then analyses the shift in focus of recent UK immigration legislation from the external, territorial border to the internal border, incorporating technologies of everyday bordering in which ordinary citizens are demanded to become either border-guards and/or suspected illegitimate border crossers. We illustrate our argument in the area of employment examining the impact of the requirements of the immigration legislation from the situated gazes of professional border officers, employers and employees in their bordering encounters.
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Özdemir, Zelal, and Ayşe Güneş Ayata. "Dynamics of exclusion and everyday bordering through Schengen visas." Political Geography 66 (September 2018): 180–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.05.005.
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Cassidy, Kathryn. "Everyday bordering: the internal reach of the UK's borders." Geography 104, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 100–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2019.12094069.
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Wemyss, Georgie, Nira Yuval-Davis, and Kathryn Cassidy. "‘Beauty and the beast’: Everyday bordering and ‘sham marriage’ discourse." Political Geography 66 (September 2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.05.008.
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Tervonen, Miika, and Anca Enache. "Coping with everyday bordering: Roma migrants and gatekeepers in Helsinki." Ethnic and Racial Studies 40, no. 7 (January 6, 2017): 1114–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1267378.
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Cassidy, Kathryn. "Everyday Re-Bordering and the Intersections of Borderwork, Boundary Work and Emotion Work amongst Romanians Living in the UK." Migration Letters 17, no. 4 (July 30, 2020): 551–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v17i4.839.
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This article explores the intersections of borderwork and boundary work in everyday encounters in the UK. It focuses on the experiences of Romanian nationals, who between 2007 and 2014 were subject to transitional controls, which are understood as a form of everyday re-bordering of the de-bordered space of the EU that denied equal access to the labour market and state support. These controls were accompanied by a range of bordering discourses in the media and political circles that firmly situated Romanians outside of the UK’s contemporary political project of belonging. This article argues that in order to understand borderwork in everyday life, we need to explore how it relates to boundary work, i.e. the differential positionalities of Romanians within social hierarchies, as well as their experiences of and engagement with emotion work. The data analysed comes from participant observation with Romanian communities in London and the North East of England in the period from 2009 to 2014.
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Scott, James Wesley. "Extreme and extremist geographies: commentary on the revanchist impulse and its consequences for everyday bordering." Fennia - International Journal of Geography 195, no. 1 (June 17, 2017): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.11143/fennia.63677.
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As Fassin and Windels (2016) argue, political xenophobia needs to be explained politically. At the same time, while political xenophobia is not a necessary consequence of neoliberalism, the idea of what counts as ‘political’ needs to be expanded. I suggest that one fruitful, non-reductionist strategy for understanding the consequences of identitary bordering consists in exploring links between securitization and the politicization of identity and national belonging. Inspired by the ideas of Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Lacy, I approach the extreme geographies of identity politics from an ethical and philosophical perspective, arguing that a powerful revanchist and self-referential narrative of authenticity and autonomy is influencing both everyday bordering practices and the way security is discursively framed.
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Scott, James W., and Christophe Sohn. "Place-making and the bordering of urban space: Interpreting the emergence of new neighbourhoods in Berlin and Budapest." European Urban and Regional Studies 26, no. 3 (April 4, 2018): 297–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776418764577.
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The objective of this paper is to theorize border-making processes in urban contexts as exemplary of the ways in which borders within human societies are formed. In fact, the question as to whether socially meaningful borders are created through state-society and systemic relations or whether they ultimately emerge locally out of social relations is not as trivial as it might seem. The concept of ‘bordering’ implies non-finalizable processes in which socio-spatial distinction is constantly created, confirmed and challenged. Far from being solely a product of state territoriality and international relations, borders are also social institutions that are constantly created, maintained and re-created as a means of negotiating the complexities of everyday life. Urban contexts reveal much about the rationales and mechanisms behind bordering processes. Our concrete bordering focus is related to place and to place-making processes that reflect the attributions, appropriations and representations of place ideas. As is argued in this paper, urban borders are a nexus between everyday practices of differentiating social space, the instrumentality of place-making, for example, as a project of urban development, and the ontological need for a sense of rootedness in place. Two case studies of urban change in Budapest and Berlin will be developed that illustrate this nexus.
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Sotkasiira, Tiina, Sanna Ryynänen, Anni Rannikko, and Päivikki Rapo. "Adrift in a Borderland: Experimenting with Participatory and Embodied Methodologies as a Collective of Asylum seekers, Refugees, Civic Activists and Academic Scholars." Migration Letters 17, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 279–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v17i2.769.
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This article examines our on-going attempts to operationalise a critical qualitative research approach – drifting, which we have adopted from the feminist collective Precarias a la deriva, – in order to conduct research with people who have arrived in Finland as asylum seekers and refugees, as well as with the civic activists who work by their side. Our research focuses on the everyday bordering practices that exclude asylum seekers and refugees, and the activities of de-bordering. The article claims that drifting combines the advantages of mobile research methods with the critical and collective praxis of activist research, which allows the upsurge of non-hegemonic knowledge. Drifting holds great promise for exploring everyday borders and their consequences, which usually remain hidden to the majority of native residents. In drifting, the injustices that occur at borders within countries in Europe are not only exposed for research and the wider public, but they are also challenged with research-based interventions.
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Cassidy, Kathryn, Nira Yuval-Davis, and Georgie Wemyss. "Debordering and everyday (re)bordering in and of Dover: Post-borderland borderscapes." Political Geography 66 (September 2018): 171–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.04.005.
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Paradiso, Maria. "The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality." European Review 24, no. 1 (February 2016): 105–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798715000484.
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If we look at the Mediterranean only as a space, a dissonant geography is obvious. Its diversity is mistakenly reduced in a process of ‘diorthosis’, a cognitive and operational approach that starts from assuming the nature of things and functionality modes rather than arriving at a proper image via actual analysis.1The study of flows, of networks–i.e. the circulation of ideas, people, finances, and so on – challenges the continuous representation of the Mediterranean between homogeneity and otherness, and re-posits it as both a post-colonial imbricate site of encounters and currents and as a site of new hegemonic and counter-power discourse(s) and alliances. This paper explores the ‘mobility’ paradigm as an initial approach to contemporary geographies of the Mediterranean. The latter are being created not only by the media, powers and ideologies, but also by everyday people’s inter-ethnic, inter-cultural, and emotional interactions in places and digital communication channels. Such interactions are often characterized by blockages of inter-ethnic or inter-cultural exchanges, as well as by inequalities. They present and discuss initial paths of new encounters structuring North–South relationships, and vice versa, but also circular and East–West ones since they are typified by a variety of personal and virtual mobilities in terms of gender, motivations, emotional geographies, impacts, and circulation rather than origin/destination, and so on. It seems to me that the internet and people’s spatial mobility underline a deep process of change for the Mediterranean. A dialectic of diaspora politics, circuits of funds, weapons, empowerments, and emotions, challenge the boundaries of political communities in transformation. The Mediterranean thus appears as a global space of confrontation, emulation, opposition, dialectics, and change. Places, flows, wires and digital TV are the loci for all this. There is no assumption of ‘Mediterranean as a bridge of cultures’; instead, we all are actors in networking communities
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Tateo, Luca, and Giuseppina Marsico. "Signs as borders and borders as signs." Theory & Psychology 31, no. 5 (March 29, 2021): 708–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354320964865.
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This article focuses on bordering as a fundamental semiotic process of human psychological functioning. First, we discuss similarities between semiosis and bordering and explore their relationships. In the perspective of cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics, psychic life is a process of purposeful production and interpretation of signs, carried out through cycles of culturally guided, selective internalization and externalization. Signs and borders are not only entities “out there”: they emerge in the purposeful movement of the organism in the course of future-oriented action in everyday life. Second, we discuss borders in mind and society as particular types of signs, through which humans regulate their own and others’ conduct. Finally, we propose a general genetic law of bordering development: borders are first conceived as tools created and established by humans as interpsychic activities. Later, the sign is internalized and begins to regulate psychological functioning. It also becomes a psychological tool for dealing with other humans and with the environment.
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Vaughan-Williams, Nick, and Maria Pisani. "Migrating borders, bordering lives: everyday geographies of ontological security and insecurity in Malta." Social & Cultural Geography 21, no. 5 (August 17, 2018): 651–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1497193.
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Weber, Leanne. "‘My Kids Won’t Grow up Here’: Policing, Bordering and Belonging." Theoretical Criminology 24, no. 1 (April 19, 2019): 71–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480619843296.
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Police researchers have long posited a connection between policing and belonging, or between policing and related concepts such as citizenship. However, much of this literature does not include empirical data demonstrating the actual impact of policing experiences on individuals and communities. Where it does, belonging is rarely located at the centre of analysis. In this article, I explore the role of policing in generating experiences and perceptions of belonging. I connect the theoretical literature on policing, borders and belonging by conceiving of everyday policing as a racialized process of social bordering, and present evidence from a qualitative study with migrant communities in southern-eastern Melbourne, Australia. I conclude that discriminatory policing reinforces social boundaries that are relevant to both ‘belonging’ and the ‘politics of belonging’, and identify police, in conjunction with other social actors and institutions, as potentially powerful agents of ‘governmental belonging’.
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Scott, James Wesley, Filippo Celata, and Raffaella Coletti. "Bordering imaginaries and the everyday construction of the Mediterranean neighbourhood: Introduction to the special issue." European Urban and Regional Studies 26, no. 1 (September 7, 2018): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776418795208.
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This special issue of European Urban and Regional Studies maps out a move from a strictly geopolitical to more socio-political and socio-cultural interpretations of the European Union’s (EU’s) ‘Mediterranean neighbourhood’. In doing this, the authors propose a dialogic understanding of neighbourhood as a set of ideas and imaginaries that reflect not only top-down geopolitical imaginaries but also everyday images, representations and imaginations. The introduction briefly summarizes conceptualizations of ‘neighbourhood’ provided by the individual contributions that connect the realm of high politics with that of communities and individuals who are affected by and negotiate the EU’s Mediterranean borders. Specifically, three cases of socio-spatial imaginaries that exemplify patterns of differential inclusion of the ‘non-EU’ will be explored. The cases involve Italy–Tunisia cross-border relations, the EU’s post-‘Arab Spring’ engagement with civil society actors and the case of Northern Cyprus. The authors suggest that ‘neighbourhood’ can be conceptualized as a borderscape of interaction and agency that is politically framed in very general terms but that in detail is composed of many interlinked relational spaces. The European neighbourhood emerges as a patchwork of relations, socio-cultural encounters, confrontation and contestation, rather than merely as a cooperation policy or border regime.
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Kikon, Dolly. "Jackfruit seeds from Jharkhand." Contributions to Indian Sociology 51, no. 3 (September 6, 2017): 313–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0069966717720575.
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This article examines how adivasis in Assam assert their sense of belonging to the land. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted along the foothills bordering Assam and Nagaland, I present the everyday lives of adivasi villagers in a militarised landscape and examine how adivasi belonging and identity are constructed in a political milieu where ideas of indigeneity and territoriality are deeply internalised. I look into how adivasi accounts highlight the weaving together of the histories of the tea plantations and social alliances with neighbours in the villages. I argue that these narratives are used to assert rights and claim an identity of belonging. Specifically focusing on adivasi accounts situated outside the tea plantations in Assam, this article seeks to contribute towards scholarship about everyday practices of belonging, memory and social relations in Northeast India and beyond.
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CHAMBERS, THOMAS. "‘Performed Conviviality’: Space, bordering, and silence in the city." Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 3 (March 28, 2019): 776–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x17000786.
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AbstractThrough ethnographic material gathered in the Muslim woodworking mohallas (neighbourhoods) of a North Indian city, this article attends to ‘performed’ elements of everyday convivial interactions. It builds on work that situates conviviality as a normative project aimed at understanding and fostering interaction within urban space which bridges forms of difference. Through descriptive accounts, the article illustrates how convivial exchanges can embody degrees of instrumentality and conceal relations of power and marginalization that act to silence outrage or contestation. This ‘performed conviviality’ is dealt with in a broader context of ‘scale’ to consider how marginalization and connectedness—the marginal hub—intersect in even the most mundane moments of convivial exchange. By tracing processes of marginalization, boundary making, and bordering within the local, city-wide, state, and international contexts, the article follows the production of a marginalized or ‘border’ subjectivity through to the individual level. The subjectivities produced in this context act to enforce degrees of self-imposed silence among those subjected to processes of marginalization. In addition—and again attending to scale through an acknowledgement of the connected nature of the mohallas—the article also considers the role of conviviality in global chains of supply through the creation and maintenance of bonds and obligations that facilitate production in the city's wood industry.
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Kurnicki, Karol. "Dzielenie przestrzeni, praktyki graniczenia. Parkowanie, własność i przynależność na polskich osiedlach mieszkaniowych." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 62, no. 3 (September 27, 2018): 143–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2018.62.3.8.
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Space gains significance through processes of social differentiation and bordering, and in consequence is connected with the creation and maintenance of social divisions. The author seeks confirmation of this fact at the level of everyday practices in housing settlements, tracking the mechanisms used by people in situations of contact and confrontation with others in the social space. He sets himself several aims: (1) he attempts to analyze selected spatial practices (parking within the settlement, the creation of belonging), reflecting the internal structuring strategies of housing settlements; (2) he points to the causes of that structuring, that is, the main contexts in which these practices occur and are strengthened; (3) he highlights the important role of space in processes of bordering and differentiation. Practices connected with parking and the creation of belonging, although apparently disparate and deriving from contrary spheres of social life make it possible to hypothesize that the striving for separation and the increased importance of space determine the organization of borders, divisions, and social relations in housing settlements.
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Hualde, José Ignacio, Oihana Lujanbio, and Juan Joxe Zubiri. "Goizueta Basque." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 40, no. 1 (March 15, 2010): 113–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100309990260.
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Goizueta is a small town in northwestern Navarre, Spain, bordering Gipuzkoa. According to the most recent official figures, it has slightly over 800 inhabitants, about 95% of whom speak Basque (2001, Instituto de Estadística de Navarra). All inhabitants (except for young children) also speak Spanish. In the school system standard Basque and, to a lesser extent, Spanish are used. Older speakers (those born before 1970 or so) were educated exclusively in Spanish. The local Basque dialect, however, enjoys very high prestige among its speakers, and this is the linguistic variety that is most commonly used in everyday interaction within the town.
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Clark, Colin. "Stay or Go? – Roma, Brexit and European Freedom of Movement." Scottish Affairs 29, no. 3 (August 2020): 403–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0331.
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The spectre of Brexit has raised issues of concern for Roma communities living and working in Scotland and other parts of the UK. The effective ending of freedom of movement has produced new uncertainties and insecurities for people living outside their EU countries of origin, especially for those who are racialised and stigmatised by ‘hostile environment’ policies. Brexit is best understood as both a process and effect of everyday bordering as well as a continuation of historically embedded structural divisions. This paper looks at everyday Roma life in Glasgow, via the work of the NGO Romano Lav (Roma Voice), to assess how Brexit is impacting on people's lives. Further, the paper examines how Scotland can best move forward in terms of independence and the European project. It is argued that a second independence referendum that gives full political independence to Scotland is the only way to secure future EU membership and freedom of movement.
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Wemyss, Georgie, and Kathryn Cassidy. "“People think that Romanians and Roma are the same”: everyday bordering and the lifting of transitional controls." Ethnic and Racial Studies 40, no. 7 (December 22, 2016): 1132–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1267381.
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Côté-Boucher, Karine, Federica Infantino, and Mark B. Salter. "Border security as practice: An agenda for research." Security Dialogue 45, no. 3 (June 2014): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010614533243.
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The ambition of this special issue is to contribute to contemporary scholarly analyses of border security by bringing more focus onto a specific field of inquiry: the practices of the plurality of power-brokers involved in the securing of borders. Border security is addressed from the angle of the everyday practices of those who are appointed to carry it out; considering border security as practice is essential for shedding light on contemporary problematizations of security. Underscoring the methodological specificity of fieldwork research, we call for a better grounding of scholarship within the specific agencies intervening in bordering spaces in order to provide detailed analyses of the contextualized practices of security actors.
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Oates-Indruchová, Libora, and Muriel Blaive. "Introduction: Border communities: microstudies on everyday life, politics and memory in European Societies from 1945 to the present." Nationalities Papers 42, no. 2 (March 2014): 195–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2014.891339.
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The 1989/1991 demise of European communist regimes created a powerful impulse for the investigation of memory cultures at Cold War borders and, subsequently, for reflections on the creation of new European border regimes. The four studies included in this special section investigate these two processes on a micro level of their dynamics in new and old borderlands from the perspectives of history, anthropology and political science. At the same time, they explore the relations between the everyday life experience of borderland communities and larger historical and political processes, sometimes going back to the re-drawing of European borders in the aftermath of the First World War.It is the hybrid nature of borders as at the same time separating and connecting (Anzaldúa 1987; Gupta and Fergusson 1997), as the place where “a transition between two worlds is most pronounced” (Van Gennep 1960 paraphrased in Berdahl 1999, 12) that makes them such an attractive and interdisciplinary site of research. It is of interest to geographers, historians, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists (e.g. Donnan and Wilson 1994; Anderson 1997; Ganster et al. 1997; Breysach, Paszek, and Tölle 2003; Wastl-Walter 2010). Daphne Berdahl sees boundaries as “symbols through which states, nations, and localities define themselves. They define at once territorial limits and sociocultural space” (Berdahl 1999, 3). Border research distinguishes between “border,” “bordering,” and “borderland” or “frontier” (the term first defined by Turner 1921). While borders connote a dividing line, borderlands connote an area, and bordering refers to the process of border- and borderland-creation. Borders are established through a three-stage process of allocation, delimitation and demarcation: a territory is first placed (allocated) under the jurisdiction of a government, then an imaginary line is drawn (delimited) on a map, and finally the boundary is marked with physical markers (demarcated) in the terrain (Sahlins 1989, 2). Borderlands or frontier zones are “privileged sites for the articulation of national distinctions” (Sahlins 1989, 271), and as such are places where difference is produced and institutionalized through territorial sovereignty, but also constantly renegotiated by multiple actors.
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Górny, Maciej. "A Century of Selective Ignorance: Poland 1918–2018." Slavic Review 78, no. 3 (2019): 654–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2019.227.
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The article identifies some of the rarely recalled phenomena accompanying Poland's path towards independence. First is the level of economic, cultural, and everyday integration with imperial centers. Second is the growing intensity of interethnic strife. Third, the social turmoil, at times bordering on popular revolt, started in 1917 and lasted long after 1918. Fourth is the large-scale economic transformation and deprivations that this transformation brought about. Finally is the general longing for restoring law and order, a feeling that facilitated actions by minor groups of nationalists capable of creating at least a rudimentary state apparatus. None of the newly-created states of east central Europe was a result of consequent political action. Rather, they came into existence out of the interplay of social, economic, and cultural factors.
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Monforte, Pierre, Gaja Maestri, and Estelle d’Halluin. "‘It’s like having one more family member’: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks." Journal of Sociology 57, no. 3 (February 27, 2021): 674–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783321991679.
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Since 2015, the notion of hospitality has been a guiding principle and a key demand for individuals and organisations that provide direct support to refugees in Europe. Through a set of interviews conducted with volunteers active in the Refugees Welcome movement in Britain, France and Italy, this article explores the motivations and experiences of individuals who practise (private) hospitality by hosting refugees in their homes. Looking specifically at the ‘responsibility’ that emerges from the practice of hosting, we show that the experience of private hospitality is based on narratives stressing feelings of love and family-like relations, and thus creates the expectation of an affective connection between the host and the guest. We maintain that this process is highly ambivalent as it risks creating and reproducing everyday intimate bordering processes.
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Kontriková Šusteková, Ivana. "Dynamika nadlokálneho a lokálneho v každodennosti života na hranici (na príklade regiónu Kysuce)." Český lid 108, no. 3 (September 25, 2021): 353–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21104/cl.2021.3.04.
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Border studies (currently also cross-border cooperation issues) is an interdisciplinary research specialization. The aim of the article is to present the spatial proximity influence of the state border on the everyday life reality of inhabitants of the Kysuce region in the 20th Century (overlapping with the present day) in both the local and supra-local context. With reference to the theory of the Irish sociologist Liam O'Dowd, it focuses on the Slovak state borders with Poland and the Czech Republic as a possible barrier, but also a bridge, a source of opportunities and a symbol of identity. It points out that in the villages bordering the Polish and Czech territories there has always been a relatively intensive mutual cultural transfer and contact of populations and therefore the borders cannot be perceived as an exclusively geopolitical phenomenon; their social and cultural dimension must be taken into account.
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Kolosov, Vladimir A., and Maria V. Zotova. "Multiple borders of Nagorno-Karabakh." GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 84–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2020-04.
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Though the agreement on ceasefire between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh was concluded more than 25 years ago, there is no progress in the negotiations between the sides. The conflict is intrinsically related to the partition of territory between the areas de facto controlled by the non-recognized Republic of NagornoKarabakh, boundaries of which do not match the administrative borders of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region in the Soviet period, and Azerbaijan. This paper considers the geopolitical situation of Nagorno-Karabakh through the lenses of its cross-border interactions and bordering. This notion widely used in contemporary border studies means not only border delimitation and management, but also the constant process of change in their functions, regime, and social importance. Such change can result, for instance, from the transformation of political strategies, shifts on the international arena and bilateral relations, currency exchange rates and global market prices, as well as in the course of the everyday practice and interactions. The authors analyzed first the existing pattern of borders in the context of security. Then they characterized de-bordering and interactions between Nagorno-Karabakh and its patron state, Armenia, describing the adaptation of the Karabakhi population and economy to the lack of international recognition. The demarcation line with Azerbaijan remains one of the rare cases of a completely closed border. One of the main and potentially long-term obstacles in finding a solution is the cultivation of the «image of the enemy» on both sides of this border.
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Virkkunen, J. "Disease control and border lockdown at the EU’s internal borders during Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Finland." Baltic Region 12, no. 4 (2020): 83–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2020-4-5.
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The article discusses the lockdown of the EU’s internal borders during the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. Special attention is paid to bordering as a means of disease control and the governments’ aim to “protect the population and secure functions of society”. Not only did the government restrict flights and ‘non-essential’ travel from non-Schengen countries such as Russia, China and Thailand but, with some exceptions, it also restricted travel-to-work commuting and everyday cross-border encounters between Finland and its Schengen neighbours of Sweden, Norway and Estonia. The restrictions hampered tourism and migrant-dependent industries as well as complicated the lives of migrants’ families. While the lockdown of the Estonian and Russian border does not cause any debates in Finnish society, the closure of the Finnish-Swedish border that has been completely open since the 1950s and the new regime led to a debate of citizens’ constitutional rights and to civil disobedience that materialised in semi-legal border crossings.
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Gatwiri, Kathomi, and Leticia Anderson. "Boundaries of Belonging: Theorizing Black African Migrant Experiences in Australia." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 1 (December 23, 2020): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010038.
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As nationalist ideologies intensify in Australia, so do the experiences of ‘everyday racism’ and exclusion for Black African immigrants. In this article, we utilize critical theories and engage with colonial histories to contextualize Afrodiasporic experiences in Australia, arguing that the conditional acceptance of Black bodies within Australian spaces is contingent upon the status quo of the white hegemony. The tropes and discourses that render the bodies of Black African migrants simultaneously invisible and hyper-visible indicate that immigration is not only a movement of bodies, but also a phenomenon solidly tied to global inequality, power, and the abjection of blackness. Drawing on critical race perspectives and theories of belonging, we highlight through use of literature how Black Africans in Australia are constructed as ‘perpetual strangers’. As moral panics and discourses of hyper-criminality are summoned, the bordering processes are also simultaneously co-opted to reinforce scrutiny and securitization, with significant implications for social cohesion, belonging and public health.
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Ashutosh, Ishan. "On the grounds of the global Indian: Tracing the disjunctive spaces between diaspora and the nation-state." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37, no. 1 (June 11, 2018): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654418779388.
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This article assesses the shifting relations between diasporas and nation-states through an ethnography of the affective dimensions contained in the figure of the “global Indian.” This new subject refers to the integration of elite segments of the Indian diaspora for state projects of economic liberalization and Hindu populism. Drawing on fieldwork in Toronto, I argue that the global Indian’s production is rife with contesting claims over the nation. Rather than integration, a new disjunctive bordering of national identity and belonging between homeland and diaspora space have emerged. This argument is developed by first emphasizing ethnography’s importance in illuminating the everyday lives of diasporic subjects, before turning to the geographies of distance and proximity between India and the Indian diaspora. The majority of the article uncovers the grounds of the global Indian through the narratives of diasporic subjects. Their narratives speak to the contested terrain of membership that lurks below the official discourse on diaspora strategies.
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Virkkunen, J. "Disease control and border lockdown at the EU’s internal borders during Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Finland." Baltic Region 12, no. 4 (2020): 83–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2020-4-5.
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The article discusses the lockdown of the EU’s internal borders during the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. Special attention is paid to bordering as a means of disease control and the governments’ aim to “protect the population and secure functions of society”. Not only did the government restrict flights and ‘non-essential’ travel from non-Schengen countries such as Russia, China and Thailand but, with some exceptions, it also restricted travel-to-work commuting and everyday cross-border encounters between Finland and its Schengen neighbours of Sweden, Norway and Estonia. The restrictions hampered tourism and migrant-dependent industries as well as complicated the lives of migrants’ families. While the lockdown of the Estonian and Russian border does not cause any debates in Finnish society, the closure of the Finnish-Swedish border that has been completely open since the 1950s and the new regime led to a debate of citizens’ constitutional rights and to civil disobedience that materialised in semi-legal border crossings.
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Idrobo, Carlos. "Sensing Boundaries on Foot." Ennen ja nyt: Historian tietosanomat 21, no. 3 (June 17, 2021): 43–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.37449/ennenjanyt.109311.
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This article examines the material and socio-cultural mechanisms by which everyday urban and rural walking is controlled, regulated, limited, or affected, as seen through the lens of nineteenth century visual arts with support of literary and historical accounts. Inspired by the interdisciplinary research on walking, I discuss three cases of different cultural and historical backgrounds and examine therein the instances in which the experience of walking cannot fully take place, or its movements are shaped or controlled by real or imaginary forces, either external or internal, or even by other modes of transportation: 1) C. G. Carus’ socially constrained travelling in Italy in 1828, leading up to his painting Erinnerung an Neapel, 2) the history of the Pont Neuf and the use and regulation of Paris footways through lithographs and ‘impressionist’ paintings in the Third Republic, and 3) the motif of the ‘riukuaita’ (round-pole fence) in lithographs, landscape paintings and photographs during the Golden Age of Finnish Art. Thus, art objects are considered as both artworks and historical documents that illuminate the imaginary and actuality of historical events related to migration, bordering processes, and control of mobility.
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Watkins, Josh. "Irregular migration, borders, and the moral geographies of migration management." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38, no. 6 (April 1, 2020): 1108–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654420915607.
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Migration management expresses the idealizations of policymakers: how they view the world’s ideal biopolitical and geopolitical organization. This article presents an analysis of an anti-irregular migration campaign funded by Australia and administered by the International Organization for Migration to deter “potential people smugglers” in Indonesia. The article demonstrates that the campaign attempted to normalize the idea that transporting irregular migrants was immoral and a sin. The Indonesia–Australia border and the Westphalian nation-state system were structured as moral geographies. The campaign framed immigration law as the ultimate determinant of moral and immoral migration, proclaiming a righteousness in immobilizing irregular migrants, regardless of circumstance. Per the campaign, moral migration is to be managed, and borders to be guarded, by unaccountable consultants for hire like the International Organization for Migration—states’ deputized migration managers. The article analyzes how irregular migration was structured as subverting and exploiting territorialized nations, how the campaign associated emplacement and boundedness with safety and irregular migration with a threatening, foreign, immorality. Finally, the article investigates how everyday spaces were infiltrated by bordering practices designed to normalize the campaign’s purported “truths” about morality and migration, showing the varying temporalities and scales of border-making and migration management.
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Teufel, Nicolai. "The spatial production of a border-crossing civil society in Görlitz and Zgorzelec. A German point of view." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 25, no. 25 (September 1, 2014): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bog-2014-0040.
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Abstract After decades of uncertainty and continuous change to the border regime since the split-up of Görlitz into a German part west of the river Neisse, and a Polish part called Zgorzelec after the Second World War, both towns established the self-designated European City Görlitz-Zgorzelec in 1998. Although journalists and politicians maintain that Görlitz and Zgorzelec are a case model for European integration, there are obvious differences between the visions connected to the project ‘European City’ and the everyday life. Following the key research question, whether the ‘European City Görlitz-Zgorzelec’, in its attempts to develop a border-crossing civil society, is also constructed from below by citizens on both sides of the border, my contribution to the field of border studies uses a qualitative micro-level approach to these processes in the fields of culture, leisure and education. For that aim, an ethnographically inspired socio-geographical research design has been linked to Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical framework of the double triad of spatial production developed in The Production of Space (1991). From the perspective of actors in civil society in both towns, who are active in constructing, shifting and deconstructing borders, the article aims to illuminate both territorial and social bordering processes. Borderwork is embedded in and connected to transformation and peripheralisation processes, as well as to the discourses on and the funding instruments of European Integration in the context of the complex history of the Polish-German border.
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Vuilleumier, Louis. "Lost in Transition to Adulthood? Illegalized Male Migrants Navigating Temporal Dispossession." Social Sciences 10, no. 7 (July 1, 2021): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070250.
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The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has been portrayed as an invasion that threatens Europe and calls its sovereignty into question, prompting exceptional emergency responses. These (re)bordering processes highlight Europe’s uneven, discriminatory, and racialized filtering system. European nation-states sort desired and undesired migrants through sets of precarious administrative statuses that translate into limited access to resources, most notably the formal labor market. European border regimes impose specific spatialities and temporalities on migrants through long-term physical and social deceleration: territorial assignation, enduring unemployment, forced idleness, and protracted periods of waiting. These temporal ruptures interrupt individual biographies and hinder the hopes of a young population seeking a better future. However, some find ways to navigate the socio-spatial deceleration they face. In this paper, I explore how European border regimes affect the trajectory of Sub-Saharan male migrants and how they appropriate such temporal dispossession. I use biographical analysis and participant observations of a squatting organization in a Swiss city to scrutinize the everyday practices and aspirations of a population made illegal and, as a result, denied access to social markers of maturity. I investigate how time intersects with physical, social, and existential im/mobility. I argue that, in navigating spaces of asymmetrical power relationships, impoverished migrants find autonomy in illegality. Neither victimizing nor romanticizing illegalized migrants’ trajectories, this paper offers an ethnographic analysis of the capacities of an impoverished population to challenge European border regimes.
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Zejnullahi, Veton. "Albanians in Presevo Valley and Their National Rights." European Journal of Language and Literature 2, no. 1 (August 30, 2015): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v2i1.p90-99.
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The situation of Albanians in Serbia, especially in three municipalities bordering with Kosovo-Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvegja, which are known as the Presevo Valley region remains the same even after the Kosovo war and after the war that took place in this region between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian fighters LAPMB. Since in this region the majority of the population is Albanian, then the object of study will be focused in the situation of the population there and the challenges facing it in everyday life and problems they encounter, starting from the most basic ones like: education, information, health, use of language, use of national symbols and many other problems. Presevo Valley throughout the stages of its history has always been marked with the various tensions depending on the circumstances, which have escalated to armed conflicts as happened during World War II when fighters of this area contributed greatly to the fight against fascism and Nazis, but even in the latter case when the war took place between government forces and ethnic Albanian Serbian organized around LAPMB. We will also see that the Albanian population in this region is indigenous to the early centuries of history being part of the Ancient Dardania and despite many invaders, Albanian population managed to preserve its national identity. Therefore the aim of this paper is to show the state of Albanians in the Presevo Valley focusing on historical, political, economic, demographic, cultural, educational, health, national rights - the symbols and language, information, migration and many problems other faced by the people of this region.
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Anzalone, Christopher. "The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East." American Journal of Islam and Society 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 123–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v34i1.867.
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Northern Lebanon, the mountainous terrain bordering Syria and the coastalplain centered on the city of Tripoli with its nearly 130,000 residents, has longbeen the heartland of the country’s Sunni Arabs, along with the old scholasticand population hub in the southern city of Sidon. The outbreak of mass popularprotests and eventually armed rebellion in neighboring Syria againstBashar al-Asad’s government in the spring of 2011, and that country’s continuingdescent into an increasingly violent and sectarian civil war, has had aprofound effect upon Lebanon, particularly in the north, for both geographicaland demographic reasons. First, northern Lebanon borders strategic areas ofcentral-western Syria (e.g., the town of al-Qusayr) and is located just south ofthe major Syrian port city of Tartus. Second, the north’s population includessignificant minority communities of Christians and Alawis, the latter of whichare largely aligned politically with Damascus. These factors have made theborder regions particularly dangerous, for while the Lebanese army attemptsto maintain control of the country’s territory, Iran-aligned Hizbullah poursfighters and military supplies into Syria and militant Sunni groups (e.g., ISISand Jabhat Fath al-Sham [JFS]) seek to establish a foothold in Lebanon fromwhich they can pursue their anti-Asad campaign.Bernard Rougier is uniquely placed to write about the contemporary historyand complex web of politics among Lebanon’s Sunni factions and particularlythe rise of jihadi militancy among some of its segments. The bookunder review, like Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestiniansin Lebanon (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), isbased upon extensive in-country fieldwork and interviews beginning in theearly 2000s and ending in 2014. It provides a fascinating and nuancedoverview of jihadism’s rise as a viable avenue of political frustration and expressionin the wider milieu of Lebanon’s intra-Sunni socio-political competitionand a fast-changing regional situation.Rougier argues that the contentious political disputes and competitionamong the country’s mainstream Sunni political figures (e.g., the al-Haririfamily), as well as the impact of Syrian control of large parts of Lebanon between1976 and 2005 and ensuing power vacuum after its withdrawal, enabledthe emergence of jihadi militancy. Northern Lebanon also became a center ofcompetition among regional actors through their local allies, which pitted ...
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Ebner-Priemer, U., P. Santangelo, and M. Bohus. "Emotional instability and borderline personality disorder." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.920.
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Affective instability is widely regarded as being the core problem in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and the driving force behind the severe clinical manifestations of BPD symptoms. In ICD-10, BPD is even labelled as emotionally unstable personality disorder. In the last years, the advent of electronic diaries, in combination with sophisticated statistical analyses, enabled studying affective instability in everyday life. Surprisingly, most recent studies using state-of-the-art methodology to assess and model affective instability in BPD failed to show any specificity, supporting the idea of a transdiagnostic construct. In addition, dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies revealed results contradictory to current clinical beliefs. Using multiple data sets and multilevel modelling, we will demonstrate that to understand affective instability it is important:– to statically model basic subcomponents of affective dynamics simultaneously;– in combination with dysfunctional regulation strategies;– cognitive processes in everyday life.Altogether, current research suggests that the dynamics of affective states and their intentional regulation are even more important to psychological health and maladjustment, than the affective states itself. Current initiatives to fundamentally improve psychopathological research are looking at basic physiological processes spanning across disorders. However, these approaches do fall short in understanding human behaviours as dynamical processes that unfold in the broadest setting imaginable – everyday life. Only the combination of basic physiological processes and methods assessing dynamical affective mechanisms in everyday life will enhance our understanding how dysregulations and dysfunctions of fundamental aspects of behaviour cut across traditional disorders.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Braz, Albert. "Jane Helleiner, Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara." American Review of Canadian Studies 47, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 321–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2017.1357226.
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Carpenter, Ryan W., Sarah L. Tragesser, Sean P. Lane, and Timothy J. Trull. "Momentary assessment of everyday physical pain in outpatients with borderline personality disorder." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment 10, no. 2 (March 2019): 143–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000304.
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Staniskyte, Jurgita. "Treading the Borderline." Nordic Theatre Studies 26, no. 1 (October 1, 2018): 32–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v26i1.109732.
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Duringthesecond decadeof theIndependence, i.e. at thebeginningof thetwenty-first centurythe increasing number of performances trying to escape the tradition of anti-mimeticrepresentation and to re-engage with reality appeared on the Lithuanian theatre stage.Fragments of everyday reality, ?real?personalities onstage, autobiographic narratives, historicdocuments, authentic spaces were becoming increasingly popular, allowing some critics toproclaim theeagerly awaited ?return to realism?. However, acloser analysisof thistendency ofcontemporary Lithuanian theatre can lead one to believe that such performances do notdemonstratetheurgeto return to thetraditional notion of realist representation, but rather toplayfully flirt with reality and its reception in the fictional world of theatre. In the light oftheoretical and practical revisions of the concepts of reality and its representation, youngLithuanian theatrecreatorsarenot somuch interested in truthful representation of reality, butrather in a performative investigation of processes of representation and their effects onaudience perception. One might add that while engaging with the codes of reality or ?real?material onstage, contemporary Lithuanian artists try to dismantle the binary oppositionbetween realistic representation and anti-realistic playfulness, which dominated the symbolicmentality of modern Lithuanian theatre. Various forms of playing with reality and fiction onthe Lithuanian theatre stage, their underlying principles and wider cultural implications ofsuch games are the object of investigation of this article. A comparative analysis ofperformances from Lithuania and Estonia will help to highlight the specific character ofLithuanian theatre as well as to define the patterns of playing with reality present on thepost-Soviet Lithuanian stage.
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Glaser, J. P., J. Van Os, R. Mengelers, and I. Myin-Germeys. "A momentary assessment study of the reputed emotional phenotype associated with borderline personality disorder." Psychological Medicine 38, no. 9 (November 30, 2007): 1231–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291707002322.
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SUMMARYBackgroundStress is postulated to play an essential role in the expression of core borderline symptoms. However, the phenomenology of stress reactivity in borderline personality disorder remains unclear. The current study investigated the phenomenology of stress sensitivity in borderline personality disorder in the flow of daily life and compared this with stress sensitivity in patients suffering from psychotic disorders, a group so far known to report the largest reactivity to stress.MethodA total of 44 borderline patients, 42 patients with psychotic disorder and 49 healthy controls were studied with the Experience Sampling Method (a structured diary technique assessing current context and mood in daily life) to assess: (1) appraised subjective stress related to daily events and activities; and (2) emotional reactivity conceptualized as changes in positive and negative affect.ResultsMultilevel regression analysis revealed that subjects with borderline personality disorder experienced significantly more emotional reactivity to daily life stress compared with both patients with psychosis and healthy controls, as evidenced by a larger increase in negative affect and a larger decrease in positive affect following stress.ConclusionThese results are the first to ecologically validate the incorporation of stress reactive symptoms in the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. Borderline patients continually react stronger than patients with psychosis and healthy controls to small disturbances that continually happen in the natural flow of everyday life. Altered emotional stress reactivity may define borderline personality disorder.
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Peltopuro, Minna, Timo Ahonen, Jukka Kaartinen, Heikki Seppälä, and Vesa Närhi. "Borderline Intellectual Functioning: A Systematic Literature Review." Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 52, no. 6 (December 1, 2014): 419–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-52.6.419.
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Abstract The literature related to people with borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) was systematically reviewed in order to summarize the present knowledge. Database searches yielded 1,726 citations, and 49 studies were included in the review. People with BIF face a variety of hardships in life, including neurocognitive, social, and mental health problems. When adults with BIF were compared with the general population, they held lower-skilled jobs and earned less money. Although some risk factors (e.g., low birth weight) and preventive factors (e.g., education) were reported, they were not specific to BIF. The review finds that, despite the obvious everyday problems, BIF is almost invisible in the field of research. More research, societal discussion, and flexible support systems are needed.
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Mneimne, Malek, William Fleeson, Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold, and R. Michael Furr. "Differentiating the everyday emotion dynamics of borderline personality disorder from major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment 9, no. 2 (March 2018): 192–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000255.
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Doherty, Paula. "Child protection threshold talk and ambivalent case formulations in ‘borderline’ care proceedings cases." Qualitative Social Work 16, no. 5 (March 29, 2016): 698–716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325016640062.
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This paper focuses on cases about children who were the subject of child protection plans and designated by children's social care services as ‘borderline’ for compulsory intervention by way of care proceedings. It moves beyond abstract language, into the everyday vocabularies of practice, with the aim of better understanding decision-making in such cases. The majority of these cases had been categorised as neglect (34/47 children). While social workers and managers clearly invoked a threshold or line for compulsory action, their discussions demonstrated a range of factors about why it was not always easy to identify when this line had been crossed.
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Santangelo, Philip S., Iris Reinhard, Susanne Koudela-Hamila, Martin Bohus, Jana Holtmann, Michael Eid, and Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer. "The temporal interplay of self-esteem instability and affective instability in borderline personality disorder patients’ everyday lives." Journal of Abnormal Psychology 126, no. 8 (November 2017): 1057–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000288.
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Karpinskii, Konstantin K., and Natal'ya V. Kisel'nikova. "Scale of Personal Problems in Everyday Life: Conceptual Justification and Psychometric Development." Российский психологический журнал 15, no. 2/1 (September 30, 2018): 38–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2018.2.1.3.
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Introduction. Theoretical and methodological issues of psychology of personal problem solving in everyday life have been underrepresented in Russian research literature. For the first time, the authors develop, pilot-test, and validate a new technique for diagnosing personal problems of everyday life.
Methods. The sample was comprised of 506 individual participants (aged 17-67 years) from general population and of 43 patients of the psycho-neurological department and the department of borderline states (aged 18-50 years). The study used the following techniques for construct validation of the pilot version of the Scale: (a) Life Satisfaction Scale; (b) Positive and Negative Affect Scale; (c) Five-Factor Personality Inventory; (d) Life Orientation Test (Russian modification); and (e) Hardiness Survey (Russian modification).
Results and Discussion. This section (a) describes the procedure of developing the Scale and eliminating non-valid items, (b) examines the factor structure of the questionnaire, (c) determines its construct, structural, and differential validity, and (d) discusses the results of studying age, gender, social, and demographic differences in the general level of problematization of life and the manifestation of specific types of everyday problems. The authors compared the findings obtained in pilot testing with those described in previous studies and demonstrated their similarity. The study provides diagnostic norms for the Scale scores. The proposed technique has great potential for further research (collecting empirical data in various subject areas of psychology) and psychodiagnostic (supporting the consultative and psychotherapeutic process and clinical practice) applications.
Conclusion. The authors draw the conclusion that the developed technique manifests relevant measurement properties and can be recommended for use in psychological research and practice. Further psychometric development of the Scale will involve determining test-retest reliability, assessing the impact of social desirability on the results, as well as differentiating and specifying test norms on larger samples.
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Knez, R. "Collage Provoked an Insight in Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder." European Psychiatry 24, S1 (January 2009): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(09)71287-8.
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Aims:To depict collage provoked an insight in female patient (31) suffering from borderline personality disorder following outpatient psychotherapy.Methods:Cut of images technique for making collage which later on was used during psychotherapy sessions.Results:The patient could easily identify herself with the collage's image of a girl on the toilet. During psychotherapy session we discovered that the toilet was a very important place in her childhood because it was the only place where she got the chance to be alone, where she felt safe and where her boundaries were respected by her parents. the second most important figure she described as her inside. She became aware of inner wild and aggressive nature because of the enormous pain which comes from her feeling of being used and cheated.The predominant symptoms in patient were impulsive, uncontrolled actions and the oppositionality was very low. She described the position of a victim many times in life, but we couldn’t approach this experience in experiential way until we used collage technique. Patient identification with figures brought her to awareness of her feelings and helped her to recognize it later in everyday life situation; she learned how to deal with it, how to take the space she needs and how to protect her boundaries.Conclusion:The insight that she had using the collage technique moved her toward better understanding of the pattern of her actions and propelled her to different behavior which enabled her better social functioning and more satisfying life.