Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Download the paper here 👇 🔗 borderlab.eu/policy-paper... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #MigrationPolicy #EULaw #Asylum 000
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Drawing on insights from border studies, our latest policy paper tries to interpret the new Pact, revealing how it codifies practices first introduced during crisis moments – rapid screening, containment zones, and probabilistic filtering – into the permanent architecture of EU border governance. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025The EU’s New Pact📘 on Migration and Asylum will come into force in June 2026. It’s the most ambitious overhaul of Europe’s migration system in a decade. However, behind the Pact’s language of “efficiency” and “solidarity” lies a major shift in how borders, crises, and people are governed. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025On Oct 26, Europe turns clocks back an hour. Seems routine, but it's sovereignty in action - states coordinating when you wake up, go to work, when shops open. This is a form of temporal border that's so invisible but shapes daily life across territories.⏰ #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Our field trip to the Saatse Boot - a bizarre Russian corridor through Estonia - became the story itself. Hours after crossing, authorities shut it down due to military concerns. Monique Taylor examines what happened in @lowyinstitute.bsky.social's the interpreter👇 borderlab.eu/news/saatse-... 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025When the river moves, someone has to decide if the border moves with it or stays put. There’s nothing automatic about any of it. What other “natural” boundaries have we convinced ourselves are inevitable?🤔 📸Pillandia #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #NaturalBorders #Rivers #Geopolitics 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025What’s really happening when we call a border “natural” is that we’re hiding a political choice behind geography. It makes a human decision look like geographic inevitability. But someone still chose which river, and someone decided whether the line runs down the middle or along one bank. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025When China and Russia nearly went to war over a river island in 1969, it was partly because the Ussuri kept moving the border between them. They finally settled it in 2004 by agreeing to divide the island, but the river🌊 hasn’t stopped shifting. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025In 1864, a flood cut off a chunk of Mexico and attached it to Texas. For over a century, the two countries argued over whether El Chamizal belonged to Mexico (because that’s where it started) or the US (because that’s where the river now ran). 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Rivers🚣 seem like the obvious choice for borders. They’re visible, they’re definitive, and they move slowly (or so we assume). For centuries, diplomats loved them precisely because they appeared to be nature’s own boundary markers, requiring no human intervention. But rivers don’t read treaties! 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Jussi P. Laine has published a new chapter in the Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands, edited by James W. Scott and Thomas M. Wilson. 🔗 borderlab.eu/research-new... (open access) #EurAsianBorderLab 020
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Replacing passport stamps with digital records, the system will collect biometric and personal data, marking a major step toward the full digitisation of Europe’s external borders. 🔗https://borderlab.eu/estonia-news/estonia-and-eu-to-introduce-new-digital-entry-exit-system-ees-from-october-12/ 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025From October 12, a new EU-wide Entry/Exit System (EES) will be introduced across European countries, including Estonia, to register third-country nationals entering and leaving the Schengen area. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025🔗Read the full essay: borderlab.eu/blog/borderi... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #VolumetricBorders #Identityborderlab.euBordering in silence: A volumetric archive of identity - Eur-Asian BorderLabThis work by Mia Tran is the second runner-up essay of the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s […] 020
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The review team noted this essay was so deeply personal that conventional theoretical frameworks would have destroyed what it accomplishes. Identity here is volumetric, layered, and beautifully contradictory, expanding across generations and geographies in ways that refuse simple categorisation. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This moment sits at the heart of Mia’s essay, now published as our second runner-up from the volumetric borders contest. The essay moves between her father’s 1979 refugee journey🌊 and her mother’s 2005 gender-expectation rebellion. Mia herself is in between... 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025When Mia Tran pinned a single letter to her mother on a gallery wall in Saigon, she didn’t expect what happened next. Thousands of strangers covered that wall with Post-it notes - secrets, longings, grief they’d never spoken aloud. An art exhibition became a space where people could finally be seen. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Check out the essay if you haven’t 👇 borderlab.eu/blog/bodies-... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #GlobalHealth #DigitalHealth #VolumetricBordersborderlab.euBodies, bytes, and borders: Unpacking the volumetric barriers of global healthcare access - Eur-Asian BorderLabThis work by Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu is the first runner-up essay of the Eur-Asian […] 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu, runner-up in our Volumetric Borders essay contest, shows how healthcare🏥 apartheid emerges from the intersection of biological, digital, and geopolitical barriers. Through her essay, she reveals how bodies themselves become border zones. 120
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025This logic runs deep in everyday healthcare. Electronic records privilege some symptoms and identities while erasing others. Telemedicine expands access only for those with digital literacy and stable connections...💻 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Healthcare systems have long operated as sorting mechanisms, but the pandemic exposed just how political and uneven this sorting is.🌍 Vaccine access was not dictated by medical need but by entrenched infrastructures of wealth and power, leaving many frontline workers in the Global South unprotected. 120
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The issue emerges from our 2024 symposium and examines how ordinary people in borderlands create practical strategies for survival through everyday actions and local knowledge. 🔗 borderlab.eu/news/first-a... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #SpecialIssue #BorderlandVernacularsborderlab.euFirst article published from the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s special issue on borderland vernaculars - Eur-Asian BorderLabEur-Asian Lab member Mikel Venhovens has published “Suffocating borderlands: enduring coping mechanisms amidst tight control […] 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025This is the first article🥳 from our upcoming special issue “Borderland vernaculars: Coping, resilience, and action in times of crisis,” edited by Lab members Karin Dean, Jussi P. Laine, and Raili Nugin. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025New research from our Lab member Mikel Venhovens reveals how ethnic Georgian minorities survive in Abkhazia’s Gal(i) borderlands - caught between systematic suppression and impossible choices. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Her closing poem is even more haunting💔: “My name is missing from the dropdown menu, my wound too blurred for the algorithm. They ask for proof of body, but I am already a border.” 🔗Read the full essay: borderlab.eu/blog/bodies-... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #VolumetricBorders #GlobalHealthborderlab.euBodies, bytes, and borders: Unpacking the volumetric barriers of global healthcare access - Eur-Asian BorderLabThis work by Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu is the first runner-up essay of the Eur-Asian […] 000
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Tappu maps three overlapping healthcare borders: political control over bodies, digital divides that exclude millions from telemedicine, and territorial constraints that trap patients on the wrong side of power. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The first runner-up essay from our volumetric borders contest is now live, and it reveals how healthcare has become a battlefield of invisible barriers.🏥 Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu, a medical student from #Indonesia, was selected from over 300 global submissions for "Bodies, bytes, and borders." 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Conference📅: May 18-21, 2026, Fez, Morocco Abstract deadline🛑: October 15, 2025 🔗Full CFP: colloquemurs.uqam.ca/fr/frontiere... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #GlobalSouth #DecolonialScholarshipcolloquemurs.uqam.caUQAM | Murs, barrières , frontières: vers un nouvel agenda d'études des murs frontaliers - Colloque internationalColloque international organisé par la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand - mai 2025 – Montréal, Québec, Canada 000
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025For researchers across #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and Indigenous communities worldwide, this represents a crucial space to present work on deglobalisation, border fortification, and migration governance from lived experience and non-Western theoretical frameworks. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025This conference operates in English, French, and Arabic - recognising that transformative scholarship happens in multiple languages and epistemic traditions. It specifically seeks work that challenges colonial constructs of territorial sovereignty and fixed border regimes. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025A rare opportunity is emerging for researchers worldwide🌍, particularly those working outside dominant Western frameworks. The Fez Border Studies Conference II actively centres Global South perspectives, Indigenous knowledge systems, and alternative approaches to understanding borders and security. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Here’s a glimpse into what the guest lecture offered 👇 borderlab.eu/news/fluid-b... #EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #MaritimeGovernance #GuestLectureborderlab.euFluid boundaries and maritime governance: Eur-Asian Border Lab hosts National Taiwan University scholars - Eur-Asian BorderLabOn 27 August 2025, the Eur-Asian Border Lab, in collaboration with the Taiwan–Estonia Cooperation Programme, […] 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The engaged participants asked thought-provoking questions that sparked lively debate, bringing their own insights and perspectives. It was also a delightful surprise to have our own Prof. Jussi P. Laine from the University of Eastern Finland join us, enriching the conversation. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Po-Yi’s concept of “elastic sovereignty” and Mei-Huan’s analysis of infrastructure as both divider and connector offered fresh ways to understand how power, resources, and identity intersect in fluid environments. 100
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Recently, we hosted scholars from National Taiwan University, Prof. Po-Yi Hung and Dr. Mei-Huan Chen, for a fascinating exploration of maritime🌊governance and territorial dynamics. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025You’ll read each other’s work, dissect what’s working, and identify what isn’t. And yes, an experienced mentor guides the process. Sounds like what you need? Submit your application by Oct 1👇 www.politicalgeography.org/early-career... #EurAsianBorderLab #PoliticalGeography #EarlyCareerResearcherspoliticalgeography.org 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Writing alone is brutal. Your argument feels solid in your head, but translating it to the page? Different story.🤦 PGSG’s Early Career Article Workshop puts you in conversation with other political geographers working through the same struggles. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Today, we celebrate Estonia’s freedom and the enduring lesson that political boundaries are always inseparable from human struggle and human hope. Elagu Eesti!💙🖤🤍 #eurasianborderlab #eesti #visitestonia 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025For the Eur-Asian Border Lab, this history carries powerful resonance. Independence in Estonia was not only regained at a negotiating table but also secured in the streets, at key infrastructure, and through the everyday determination of citizens. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This day in 1991, #Estonia restored its independence after decades of Soviet rule. It was a moment of defiance and solidarity. People stood guard at Tallinn’s television tower, protected ministries with their bodies, and made the fragile promise of sovereignty tangible through collective courage. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Part of a €2 million plan, Estonia has begun installing metal gates and drive-through barriers🚧 on the Narva border bridge to tighten security and prevent unauthorised crossings. 🔗https://borderlab.eu/estonia-news/estonia-installs-gates-and-barriers-at-narva-border-bridge/ #borderstudies 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025When satellite images are censored over places like #Kashmir, #Xinjiang, #Crimea, or #Tigray, it’s not just pixels being hidden. It’s lives, histories, and justice. If we can see the world from above, why do some places stay invisible? And who decides what we’re allowed to see? #eurasianborderlab 020
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Governments use satellite data to monitor movement. Aid groups depend on it for crisis response. Climate scientists track shifting ecologies. But not all borders are seen equally. Some are watched down to footsteps. Others vanish, blurred, censored, or erased entirely. 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Remote sensing has become one of the most powerful tools for shaping borders, without setting foot on land. From space, a single image can legitimise a claim, expose a trespass, or erase a village from view. Visibility itself becomes a form of control. 🛰️ 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/OOwY3Q754aA?... 🟦 Borders, mobility, and everything in between. #EurAsianBorderLab #BordersAndBeyond #BorderStudies #HumanitarianWork #Mobility #Estonia #Refugees 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025In Episode 1, Sigrid Solnik, Head of Programmes at the Estonian Refugee Council, joins the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s Iverson NG to talk about refugee protection from the inside: the compromises, the contradictions, and the human moments that rarely make it to the front page.♥️ 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025As our project enters its final stretch, we’re shifting the conversation from papers and reports to real voices. “Borders and Beyond” is our new interview series - unfiltered, unhurried, and grounded in the realities of those who live and work at the edge of borders, policy, and power.⚡youtu.beBorders and Beyond - Episode 1YouTube video by Eur-Asian Border Lab 110
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025The "big bad wolf"🐺 has returned to the Alps after a century, and Border Lab Summer School participant Dr Claire Galloni d'Istria is documenting what happens next. Full spotlight👇 borderlab.eu/blog/the-big... #eurasianborderlab #borderstudies #visualanthropology 020
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025#BRIT2025 brought global border scholars to a living borderland in Cyprus. Eur-Asian Border Lab’s Karin Dean & Jussi Laine joined the final roundtable on border scholarship and societal impact. 📸 Karin Dean with one of the conference organisers and an old schoolmate, Professor Eiki Berg.borderlab.euAt the heart of division: Eur-Asian Border Lab at BRIT XVII in Cyprus - Eur-Asian BorderLabKarin Dean and Jussi P. Laine from the Eur-Asian Border Lab participated in the “Border Regions in Transition XVII" conference held from 25-30 May 2025 at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) ... 010
Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025In our latest blog, Leonie Arendt, anthropologist & intern at EUREGIO, shares reflections from the Dutch-German borderlands. Her piece offers a glimpse into how cross-border cooperation operates... in the quiet negotiations of administration, education, and daily life. 👇 borderlab.eu/blog/belongi...borderlab.euBelonging without borders: Reflections from an anthropologist interning at the EUREGIO - Eur-Asian BorderLabBy Leonie Arendt BA Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, University of Amsterdam As an anthropologist, […] 010
