2024 T2M Annual Conference | Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations

Session

Mobility at the Checkpoint

PS 7

25 Sept 2024, 16:30

Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Mobility at the Checkpoint

• Christoph Schimkowsky (University of Tokyo)

91. Contested mobility and temporality in the border of south-east Georgia

Klaudia Kosicińska (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS)

25/09/2024, 16:30

Paper

In this paper I will analyse the transformation of mobility patterns and translocal practices among the Azerbaijani minority in south-east Georgia next to the border with Azerbaijan and Armenia. Drawing on the field research conducted in 2018-2023, I look at transformation of mobility patterns among the Azerbaijani community and the process of re-thinking about the border after 1991 and the...

93. Cross-border Public transport in the trinational Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa. History and perspectives

Moritz Filter

25/09/2024, 16:45

Paper

The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 triggered a development that led to a re-naissance of intensive interdependencies between Western and Eastern Eu-rope and thus also between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. The opening of the borders paved the way for the development of neighbourly ex-change relationships, which resulted in an immediate need for mobility.

On the other hand, the...

23. Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs: Borders, Bureaucracy, and Geopolitics in between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU

Claudia Eggart

25/09/2024, 17:00

Paper

Customs and geopolitics condition one another and are produced
on a transnational, national, and local scale. The Russian
war in Ukraine gives this interdependency a human face in the
form of thousands of lorry drivers waiting to be cleared at external
EU borders. This article explores the reasons and the inherent
power structure behind movement and stasis at the border triangle
between...