Many of the associated challenges with Europe’s borders, in critical border studies, relate to border security concerns, especially in relation to ‘unregulated’ migration, increasing nationalism, the risks of soft or porous borders, as well as the impact of the war in the Ukraine, and the impact of UK exit from the EU on trade and trade routes. The enormity of the humanitarian crisis unfolding at various European borders, including the border of Poland and Ukraine, is witnessed acutely in the borderlands and in those receiving countries. The Russian war on Ukraine has led to Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the second world war, and the war in and break-up of Yugoslavia. An important contribution of this research is to open up horizons for research, knowledge, understanding and teaching and learning, from an ‘ethno-mimetic’ (O’Neill 2001, Cantwell 1993) approach (a combination of ethnographic, biographical and arts based research) that involves documenting and writing the biography of three borders ‘from below’ as well as to impact on policy, through a policy report, policy briefing, exhibition and a curriculum contribution to second level sociological education
We would like to invite you to the Open Lecture Series, which will include a speech by PHD Vladimir Ivanović of the University of Zagreb (Croatia). The lecture will be held at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism (room 133) at 1:15 pm.
