TY - RPRT A1 - Beichelt, Timm A1 - Valentin, Lea T1 - Liminality and Transnationalism. Two Forces upon Shifting Borders in Contemporary Europe T2 - Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION N2 - 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. T3 - Working Paper Series B/ORDERS IN MOTION - 7 KW - Borders KW - Boundaries KW - Transnationalism KW - Liminality KW - Migration Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-6224 ER -