scholarly journals Amitav Ghosh’ Shadow Lines: Mapping Cross Border Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-122
Author(s):  
Kalyan Pattanayak
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
International Boundaries

The Shadow Lines (1988) is a historical novel by Amitav Ghosh that focuses on the national and geographical boundaries that alienate individuals. The book also depicts the violence that erupted in 1964. The title “The Shadow Lines” has multiple layers of meanings; it does not only relate to international boundaries. Ghosh’s choice of the title implies that the boundaries that divide people are just ‘shadows’. Those borders are nothing but artificial and fictitious lines drawn by people from power centre. Ghosh emphasises arbitrary nature of such geographic demarcations. This paper tends to identify the identity of people who did cross geographical borders forcefully or voluntarily and how memory and nostalgia loom large upon them.

Border Zone Trade and the Economic Boundaries of the State in North-East Ghana

Africa ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Chalfin
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Shea Butter ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Boundaries

AbstractFocusing on the tri-juncture of Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso, this article examines the role of cross-border traders in the construction and redefinition of international boundaries. Through the study of the social and spatial patterning of trade surrounding three commodities–imported cloth, beans and shea butter (karite)—it explores the multiple ways the border is endowed with or deprived of significance. When the border is viewed as a socio-geographic region the importance of popular practice to the on-going constitution of state power and presence becomes evident.

scholarly journals Cross Border Business Cycle Impacts on the El Paso Housing Market

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
Gokce Kincal ◽  
Thomas M. Fullerton, Jr ◽  
James H. Holcomb ◽  
Martha Patricia Barraza de Anda
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Single Family ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Annual Frequency ◽  
International Boundaries ◽  
The University

There is comparatively little empirical evidence regarding the impacts of cross border business cycle fluctuations on metropolitan housing markets located near international boundaries. This study examines the impacts of economic conditions in Mexico on sales of existing single–family houses in El Paso, Texas. Anecdotal evidence suggests that these impacts are fairly notable. Annual frequency data from the University of Texas at El Paso Border Region Modeling Project are used to test this possibility. Results indicate that solid empirical evidence of such a linkage is elusive.

Glaciers and International Boundaries

1913 ◽  
Vol 76 (1965supp) ◽  
pp. 129-129
Author(s):  
Lawrence Martin
Keyword(s):  
International Boundaries

SATISFACTION LEVEL OF THE FIRST THAI-LAOS FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSPORTATION CHECKPOINT SYSTEM

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sethapong Jarusombathi ◽  
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Pimnapa Pongsayaporn ◽  
Veeris Amalapala
Keyword(s):  
Satisfaction Level ◽  
Cross Border

Cross-border Migration and Gender Boundaries in Central Eastern Europe – Female Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-509
Author(s):  
Ágnes Erőss ◽  
Monika Mária Váradi ◽  
Doris Wastl-Walter
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Livelihood Strategy ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Boundaries

In post-Socialist countries, cross-border labour migration has become a common individual and family livelihood strategy. The paper is based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with two ethnic Hungarian women whose lives have been significantly reshaped by cross-border migration. Focusing on the interplay of gender and cross-border migration, our aim is to reveal how gender roles and boundaries are reinforced and repositioned by labour migration in the post-socialist context where both the socialist dual-earner model and conventional ideas of family and gender roles simultaneously prevail. We found that cross-border migration challenged these women to pursue diverse strategies to balance their roles of breadwinner, wife, and mother responsible for reproductive work. Nevertheless, the boundaries between female and male work or status were neither discursively nor in practice transgressed. Thus, the effect of cross-border migration on altering gender boundaries in post-socialist peripheries is limited.

Emerging Transnational Practices and Capabilities of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Zeynep Sahin Mencütek
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Global North ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Transnational Activities

Transnational activities of refugees in the Global North have been long studied, while those of the Global South, which host the majority of displaced people, have not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Drawing from refugee studies, transnationalism and diaspora studies, the article focuses on the emerging transnational practices and capabilities of displaced Syrians in Turkey. Relying on qualitative data drawn from interviews in Şanlıurfa – a border province in south-eastern Turkey that hosts half a million Syrians - the paper demonstrates the variations in the types and intensity of Syrians’ transnational activities and capabilities. It describes the low level of individual engagement of Syrians in terms of communicating with relatives and paying short visits to the hometowns as well as the intentional disassociation of young refugees from homeland politics. At the level of Syrian grassroots organisations, there have been mixed engagement initiatives emerging out of sustained cross-border processes. Syrians with higher economic capital and secured legal status have formed some economic, political, and cultural institutional channels, focusing more on empowerment and solidarity in the receiving country than on plans for advancement in the country of origin. Institutional attempts are not mature enough and can be classified as transnational capabilities, rather than actual activities that allow for applying pressure on the host and home governments. This situation can be attributed to the lack of political and economic security in the receiving country as well as no prospects for the stability in the country of origin. The study also concerns questions about the conceptual debates on the issue of refugee diaspora. Whilst there are clear signs of diaspora formation of the Syrian refugee communities, perhaps it is still premature to term Syrians in Turkey as refugee diaspora.

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