B/ORDER IN MOTION : The German-Polish Border from the System Transformation until the Present-Day European Integration
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2017

The objective of this paper is to use the theoretical approach of B/ORDERS IN MOTION to analyze and understand the German-Polish border region from the period of systemic transformation to EU integration. The notions of durability, permeability and liminality serve perfectly as a conceptual prism to investigate this border region in motion. Following this concept, we can recognize three border regimes involving processes of demarcation (durability), overcoming (permeability) and creation of bord