TY - JOUR A1 - Zajaczkowski, Johann T1 - Review: "Die Herstellung von Sicherheit an der EU-Außengrenze. Migrations- und Grenzpolitik in der polnischen Region Karpatenvorland" / Radosław Buraczyński. Cham: Springer International, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-658-09464-5 N2 - The book addresses three key topics. First, the Europeanization of migration and border policies at EU level is discussed in a more general manner. Second – and closely related to the first notion – the author explores the facets of the so-called 'downloading' policy in the EU's multi-level governance system, thus disentangling the processes of Europeanization from the supranational EU level through the national (ch. 3) up to the regional level (ch. 4), where it is supposed to be implemented in first instance. Third, Buraczyński seeks to elaborate on the consequences of these policy changes for the self-positioning and behavioural patterns of the residents of the borderlands. The temporal and spatial context is framed by the Subcarpathian region in the very southeast of Poland (Karpatenvorland) that is studied from the transformation period of 1989 until present day. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7516 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zajaczkowski, Johann T1 - Review: "Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier" / Karolina S. Follis. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4428-1 N2 - The book Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier by political anthropologist and current fellow at the University of Lancaster dr Karolina Szmagalska-Follis seeks to shed light on various ambiguities and blind spots pertaining to the process of primarily Polish-Ukrainian re-bordering, defined as "the talk and the practice of defining and enforcing the boundaries of the European Union" (p.12). In bringing scholarly attention to the Eastern dimension of the EU border regime, Szmagalska-Follis takes an illustrative case to study the process of re-bordering that took place at the Polish-Ukrainian frontier between 2003 and 2008. This borderland was subject to a steady ideational, territorial, and civilizational re-bordering, following the century-old dynamic of oscillating empires, nation-states and peoples. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-10535 ER -