What is a border figure?

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22 mars 2016

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Border Culture

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Disputes, Boundary Frontier troubles Borders Frontiers (Boundaries) Geographic boundaries Boundary disputes Territorial boundaries Political boundaries

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Johan Schimanski, « What is a border figure? », Border Culture, ID : 10.58079/m4i5

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My research task in the EUBORDERSCAPES project is to investigate how novels and autobiographies by immigrants may confirm or change our ideas about what borders are. One of the most useful concepts in this work has been that of the border figure. But what is a border figure? Let me first break things down: border + figure. Both these words can mean different things, but what do they mean specifically when we’re talking about border figures? Borders The border can be so many different things....

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