Do Good Fences Make Friendly Neighbor? Inclusion and Exclusion in and on the Borders of Europe

Texts by authors from different parts of the world, having a common topic of border regimes, migrations, asylum, trafficking, friendly neighborhood policies, cultural differences and Islam, excell in connection between research and activism, and represent a result of cooperation between World Learning/SIT Abroad and the Peace Institute. This book is especially useful for those concerned with regimes of inclusion and exclusion.

Contents

Jill Benderly, Lev kreft
Editors’ preface

Julie Mostov
Introductory Chapter

Nora Ahmetaj
Transformation and state building as part of the political domain

Mojca Pajnik, Veronika Bajt
Understanding Migrant Women’s Labour: Intermeshing Structure and Agency

Jill Benderly
Strategies against Trafficking from the Balkans into the EU: Enforcing Border Regimes or Increasing Women’s Human and Economic Security?

Sanja Cukut Krilić
Female Migrants at and Within the ‘European Fortress’ (Women From the Former Soviet Union in Slovenia)

Ana Frank
Rethinking European master narratives in contemporary attitudes towards ‘cultured’ (minority) groups, with a gendered perspective

Orli Fridman, Ziad M. Abu-Rish
(Re)Centring Europe: Competing Israeli and Palestinian Narratives in the Shadow of Europe

Lahcen Haddad
Beyond the Idea of “Fortress Europe” or the Challenges of Good Neighbourhood and Integration Policies

Adriana Kabashi
Kosovo: at the door of Europe

Lev Kreft
The Mediterranean and the Art World

Goran Lukič, Mirsad Begić
Migrant Workers. What About Them?

Marie-Claude Lutrand
Young French Muslim Females In “Laic” Context. A Process Of “Co-Cultural Creativity”

Aldo Milohnić
From Trojan to Schengen Horses: “The Inside Story”

Selma Muhič Dizdarevič
Trends in the Development of Immigration and Integration Policies in the European Union and the Czech Republic : Towards a Common Policy

Omar Nahas
Reading the Koran in contemporary western context

Tanja Petrović
Austria, Slovenia, and Discourses on the Western Balkans in the Context of the EU Enlargement