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Cross-Border Mobility, Unfamiliarity and Development Policy in Europe

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  • Bas Spierings
  • Martin van der Velde

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In this special issue, we seek to explore experiences, performances and effects of both “unfamiliarity” and “familiarity” across a diversity of inner and outer borders of the European Union. In EU integration discourse, cross-border unfamiliarity is usually considered to obstruct international mobility and diminish opportunities for cross-border cohesion and communities to develop. European development policy, therefore, often focuses on creating mutual understanding in border regions, especially through diminishing the barrier effect of borders. One of the consequences is that more cross-border familiarity is created. However, too much familiarity may also have undermining implications for cross-border mobility, integration and community-building. This special issue, therefore, scrutinizes what “being” and “feeling” (un)familiar imply in cross-border contexts and what consequences both have for spatial practices in and representations of borderlanders in several Euroregions—as well as for European regional development policies aiming for cross-border mobility, integration and community-building.

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  • Bas Spierings & Martin van der Velde, 2013. "Cross-Border Mobility, Unfamiliarity and Development Policy in Europe," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 1-4, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:21:y:2013:i:1:p:1-4
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.716235
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    1. Caesar, Beate & Pallagst, Karina, 2022. "Development paths for cross-border cooperation and the status quo," Arbeitsberichte der ARL: Aufsätze, in: Pallagst, Karina & Hartz, Andrea & Caesar, Beate (ed.), Border Futures - Zukunft Grenze - Avenir Frontière: The future viability of cross-border cooperation, volume 33, pages 16-32, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.
    2. Caesar, Beate & Pallagst, Karina M., 2018. "Entwicklungspfade der grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenarbeit und Status quo," Arbeitsberichte der ARL: Aufsätze, in: Pallagst, Karina M. & Hartz, Andrea & Caesar, Beate (ed.), Border Futures - Zukunft Grenze - Avenir Frontière: Zukunftsfähigkeit grenzüberschreitender Zusammenarbeit, volume 20, pages 12-27, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.

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