Towards an Island-based Narrative of the Western Mediterranean Borderscape – Continental Islands as Condensers and Laboratories
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Mediterranean Islands, EUro-Mediterranean Border, Border StudiesAbstract
The article focuses on six Western Mediterranean micro-islands and enclaves which act as condensers and catalysers of the region’s multifaceted bordering phenomena. While these territories have become the principal theatre of Europe’s muscular re-bordering brought to its paroxysm by the ‘migration crisis’, they are also the core of (historically) highly integrated cross-border regions. As such, they constitute privileged testing grounds for the development of more nuanced and equitable trans-Mediterranean narratives and political practices.
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