Border Encounters

<ul> <li> Investigates border encounters from a local ground-up perspective.</li> <li> Uses anthropological case studies from European borderlands to explain the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.</li> <li> Contextualizes the key terms of 'proximity' and 'asymmetry' with regard to the specific European framework of border encounters and the processes of EU enlargement in the past decade.</li></ul>