Everything All Right at the Internal EU Borders? The Ambivalent Effects of Cross-Border Integration and the Rise of Euroscepticism

Durand, Frédéric; Decoville, Antoine; Knippschild, Robert

doi:10.1080/14650045.2017.1382475

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“…affecting the competitiveness of SMEs in border regions. Furthermore, this permeability of the border is neither a fixed construct nor a linear process that would eventually proceed from a situation of isolation to one of high integration (Durand, Decoville, & Knippschild, 2017). Rather, at times, border permeability can be increased (e.g., due to the abolition of border controls in the Schengen area) and at times decreased (e.g., because of the re-establishment of border controls in several internal EU borders due to the contemporary immigrant issue and Euroscepticism, the hardening of the border controls post-9/11, or the situation at the US-Mexican border after the latest US presidential election).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Smes In Border Contexts: An Overview Of The Literaturementioning

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Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

Makkonen

Leick

2019

European Planning Studies

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The present paper explores the unresolved issue in regional planning of whether smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from being located in border regions in terms of crossborder cooperation opportunities and cross-border externalities. By systematically reviewing the existing literature on the topic with the help of a mapping review, it suggests the following answer: SMEs in border regions do benefit from cross-border cooperation opportunities. However, there is no strong empirical support of a prevalence of positive cross-border externalities. Rather, the review finds that SMEs in border regions are influenced by negative cross-border externalities. Since the results do not point in a clear-cut direction, given their high degree of context-specificity, we claim that further studies on the topic are necessary to combine the established knowledge on SME-based entrepreneurship with planning theories and concepts taken from the literature on borders, border asymmetries and border regions.

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Section: Entrepreneurship and Smes In Border Contexts: An Overview Of The Literaturementioning

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Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

Makkonen

Leick

2019

European Planning Studies

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“…These important flows are even sometimes presented as arguments for nationalist or regionalist discourses in the border areas that ‘receive’ them. For instance, the movement against cross-border workers in the Geneva region – Mouvement Citoyens Genevois – blames French cross-border workers for ‘stealing’ the jobs of nationals, even though the problem of unemployment remains limited (Durand et al, 2017). Although the data used here only provides a snapshot of the situation and therefore does not allow us to draw conclusions about any trends, these strong differences in the perceptions of the neighbours tend to contradict the idea that a high intensity of cross-border activities is associated with converging representations beyond borders.…”

Section: How Practices and Perceptions Reveal The Heterogeneity Of Crmentioning

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Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Decoville

Durand

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Since its creation, the European Union seems to be guided by the idea that an increase in cross-border flows contributes to more European unity. Thus, emphasis has been placed for instance on lowering customs tariffs and encouraging the free movement of goods and people. However, if the opening up of borders creates new opportunities for some residents of border regions, there are others who may not benefit. For this reason, and in a context characterized by the rise of Euroscepticism, it seems crucial to take a more critical look at actual cross-border integration and to unravel its concrete consequences for the people who live in border regions. This paper aims to do so by focusing on two aspects of this process: the functional dimension, through the number of cross-border activities, and the perceptions border residents have of their neighbours, through the level of mutual social trust. The EUROBAROMETER 422 survey is used in order to produce statistical analyses and maps. This enables us to offer a new image of European cross-border integration and to draw the following conclusions. Firstly, cross-border flows are not uniform and vary greatly from one cross-border area to another. Secondly, cross-border regions in which the intensity of flows between neighbouring regions is high do not necessarily show a high level of mutual social trust between borderland populations. Thirdly, there is not always reciprocity with regard to the mutual social trust that people have towards their neighbours within cross-border areas.

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“…The persistence of a state‐territorial conceptual framework is perhaps strongest in the places where its legal and material arrangements are waning in relative importance. For instance, Durand, Decoville, and Knippschild (2017) show that it is precisely in some of the most integrated cross‐border regions in the European Union's core where Euroscepticism is at its strongest, while Brym (2011) documents the persistence of national identities in a functionally binational border region between Germany and Poland. These “habits” of territory (Duchacek, 1986) are notable for their persistence despite daily rhythms of life that would otherwise weaken them.…”

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The mainstreaming of “vulgar territory” and popular visions of hyper‐bordered and feminized territory

Lizotte

2020

Geography Compass

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I lay out a case for recognizing “vulgar territory,” a fusing of superficial categories of spatial sovereignty with identarian rhetorics of belonging. I argue that vulgar territory is composed of two primary elements: first, a simplistic conception of sovereignty as being entirely contiguous with state borders. Second, affective elements of spatial belonging, particularly hope and fear. These two basic elements combine in various ways depending on the particular meanings, images, and emotions that are assembled in particular geohistorical contexts. I show this with a rough typology of “vulgates” of hyper‐bordered and feminized territory by examining recent examples from around the world.

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Everything All Right at the Internal EU Borders? The Ambivalent Effects of Cross-Border Integration and the Rise of Euroscepticism

Cited by 25 publications

References 51 publications

Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

Locational challenges and opportunities for SMEs in border regions

Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

The mainstreaming of “vulgar territory” and popular visions of hyper‐bordered and feminized territory

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