Spain has a long history with migration. While its image as immigration country might be rather new, migrants have already been arriving for decades on its soil. It forms one of the main gates to Europe. The enclaves of ...

De landen op de wereld zoals wij die kennen worden door landsgrenzen van elkaar gescheiden en daardoor lijken de grenzen tussen landen duidelijk aan te wijzen op een wereldkaart. Echter, naast deze fysieke grenzen bestaan ...

Lake Peipsi is located on both sides of the state border between Estonia and Russia. The part of the border that is important in this work, the lake Peipsi Border, runs through the huge lake and is very unique. After ...

The earth is warming up and CO2 levels are higher than ever in human history. Environmental catastrophes will happen if nothing changes. Severe land degradation due to global warming already affects 168 countries worldwide. ...

The aim of this research is to gain an understanding how the geopolitical relationship between the EU and Russia developed the Cold War, answering the question: “How did the changes in geopolitical strategies of the EU and ...

The European Union has been fortifying its external borders the last two decades. The human costs of this bordering policy, are widely covered by the media and the academic field, but what about the financial costs? By ...

In this thesis, I explore the materiality of the eastern external border of the European Union (EU). The eastern external border of the EU is the line which is geographically located between Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, ...

In deze studie is het social mix beleid van de gemeente Nijmegen onderzocht op de mate waarin daarbij sprake is van de disciplinerende technieken toezicht, normalisering en examinering. Het streven naar social-economisch ...

Wanneer er naar de wereld gekeken wordt lijken alle grenzen gelijk. Dit klopt echter niet met de werkelijkheid. Vooral de “onzichtbare grenzen” van visumrestricties zorgen voor grote verschillen. In deze thesis is aan de ...

This study addresses the apparent Europeanisation of Georgia, a small country in the South Caucasus on Europe’s very edges. Although the presence of an overwhelming number of symbols and representations of Europe in Georgia ...