@techreport{BeicheltValentin2020, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Beichelt, Timm and Valentin, Lea}, title = {Liminality and Transnationalism. Two Forces upon Shifting Borders in Contemporary Europe}, series = {Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION}, journal = {Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION}, doi = {10.11584/b-orders.7}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-6224}, pages = {17}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The working paper presents two analytical concepts to examine territorial borders: liminality and transnationalism. The combination of both concepts offers an approach to borders and migration practices which takes borders not simply as a point of departure but puts border zones and their transgressions to the centre of attention, revealing their ambiguous, in-between character. Taking into account empirical observations of complex, multi-directional migration patterns and conceptualizing them as liminal transmigration, we challenge the rhetoric of impermeable territorial borders and an enduring, one-way migration flow into Western Europe. Instead, we propose a perspective on borders that not only allows for ambiguities but makes analytical as well as empirical disruptions productive.}, language = {en} }