Eurasia Border Review;Vol. 8, No. 1

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B/ORDER IN MOTION : The German-Polish Border from the System Transformation until the Present-Day European Integration

Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara

Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/83518
JaLCDOI : 10.14943/ebr.8.1.31

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to use the theoretical approach of B/ORDERS IN MOTION to analyze and understand the German-Polish border region from the period of systemic transformation to EU integration. The notions of durability, permeability and liminality serve perfectly as a conceptual prism to investigate this border region in motion. Following this concept, we can recognize three border regimes involving processes of demarcation (durability), overcoming (permeability) and creation of border zones (liminality) in the brief history of the German-Polish border.

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