Changing borders and challenging belonging : policy change and private experience / [edited by] Georg Grote and Andrea Carlà

Includes bibliographical references and index

Changing borders and challenging belonging : policy change and private experience / Georg Grote / Andrea Carlà -- Regional citizenship : a tool for the inclusion of third-country nationals in subnational entities / Roberta Medda-Windischer / Karl Kössler -- On unbounded belongingness : an exploration into reconfiguring borders beyond dualisms and detachment / Jussi P. Laine -- "Taking back control" : Brexit and UK border policies / Leah Simmons Wood -- Navigating the implications of consociational power-sharing regimes : power-sharing and (de)securitization in Northern Ireland and South Tyrol / Andrea Carlà -- Divided across borders : the impacts of the creation of states on Indigenous peoples and their rights in Northern Europe / Alexandra Tomaselli -- Borders, demography, politics and pragmatism : the case of Dobrudja/Dobrogea/Dobrudža since 1878 / Tobias Weger -- Changing political landscapes : adapting biographies : three ideologically engaged Transylvanian Saxon writers before and after 1945 in Brașov, Vienna and Munich / Enikö Dácz -- Being made Jewish : a secular Jewish girl fleeing Hitler's Vienna : identity discourses through the eyes of Ruth Maier's diary / Winfried R. Garscha -- The inspector, the men and the Mallee : establishing a soldier settlement in 1919-20 / Katie Holmes -- Colonial wars, dis/loyalty, and discourses of belonging at Italy's margins / Markus Wurzer -- "Siblings are being torn apart, brothers may shoot each other..." : the Hitler-Mussolini agreement of 1939 and the fate of one South Tyrolean family / Georg Grote

"Both the Brexit process and the Covid pandemic have challenged the idealistic concept that borders in Europe and elsewhere were becoming ever more permeable. The idea that the world was becoming a global village has been seriously eroded. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has once again highlighted how power politics draws borders and shapes belongings. This has necessitated analyses of the nature of human-made borders and boundaries and the consequences for individuals and collectives who experience inclusion or exclusion on their feelings of belonging and their identities. Similarly, governmental policies within states have created majorities and minorities and have caused grave implications for those groups at the receiving end of legislation and state actions. This multidisciplinary volume comprises essays from researchers and academics, located in Europe and beyond, who investigate the effects of border creation, social and legal inclusivity and exclusion on individuals and collective identities in the past and today. Combining 'from above' and 'from below' perspectives, the volume explores macro-political processes affecting borders and senses of belonging as well as their intersections at the microlevel, including private views and individual responses to such type of processes"-- Provided by publisher