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The article present literary criticism of Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez's "Nocturno de frontera" and Yuri Herrera's "Señales que precederán al fin del mundo," exploring how these texts reimagine border crossing narratives within the New Latino Boom movement. Topics include unique perspectives offered by Vaquera-Vásquez & Herrera; the thematic exploration of immigrant journeys & cultural identity; and role of language and literary production in shaping Latinx and Latin American narratives in the U.S.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate an application of Cross-Boarder Insolvency Act 2008 (Cth) as instigated by the joint sitting of the Full Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of New Zealand pertaining to the Halifax Investment Services Pty Ltd liquidation case. Design/ methodology/ approach: The method of investigation employed is a legal method of critical analysis of legislation and case law. Results/ findings: The Halifax Case provides an example of a situation where the Cross-Border Insolvency Act was applied with the cooperation of two separate international jurisdictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher degree research candidates experience higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population. This study explored the wellbeing and experiences of two independent groups of HDR candidates. One participating prior to the pandemic, and the second group during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mixed methods study comprising of a survey and focus group were conducted with 17 participants. The results of this preliminary study suggest there may have been differences in HDR candidates' wellbeing between pre-pandemic and those participating in the study during COVID-19. However, the study sample was small, and the results cannot be generalised to the HDR cohort. Two main themes were identified from the focus groups: 'wellbeing challenges, culture and connectivity' and 'university response: culture and connectivity'. Some participants identified multiple stressors that impacted their wellbeing including challenges of establishing a research community to support their voice, and identity. Additional challenges that related to connectivity were evident for international students during COVID-19, due to international border closures in Australia. Further studies are needed to inform evidence-based policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Commercial banks and currency kiosk bureaus provide exchange services throughout Ciudad Juarez. This study employs newspaper data to examine how the bank and kiosk sell-buy spreads are affected by border crossings, the bilateral peso per dollar exchange rate, and 90-day Mexico – U.S. treasury yield differentials. Sample data are from January 2009 through June 2016. Parameter estimation is carried out using a GLS ARMAX procedure. Empirical results indicate that bank spreads increase as the peso weakens. Exchange bureau spreads decrease as cross-border traffic flows increase. Currency kiosk spreads tend to widen as 90-day yield gaps become larger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Developing effective inspection processes at border crossings in order to identify violators within large groups of mostly innocent people is an important and difficult task. Passenger profiling is a tool used to deal with this task, but it raises many public concerns and ongoing debates about its usefulness. In this article, we study whether profiling is helpful, how it should be used to maximize its effectiveness, and how social utility is affected by its use. We consider two game models that take place at a crowded border crossing, where passengers are divided into different groups based on their risk profile. The models involve three players: the defender, the attacker, and the passenger recruited to engage in a violation. The defender decides on an inspection policy for every group of passengers. The attacker decides from which group to recruit a single passenger as a violator. The recruited passenger has private knowledge about the likelihood that she/he will engage in the violation or not. We solve the game models and compare their solutions with those of a no‐profiling inspection policy. We then study a model with four players, including a social planner who is concerned about social utility, and chooses the defender's inspection resources and policy. We show that the announced profiling policy provides the highest payoffs to the defender. Regarding social utility, profiling is always better than no profiling. However, there are cases where the unannounced profiling policy provides the most social utility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses a study conducted to empower cross-border communities in Indonesia and Timor-Leste by increasing their understanding and ability to determine appropriate and competitive selling prices based on production costs. The study found that participants' understanding and skills improved, and they were able to determine selling prices by calculating production costs. The research findings have the potential to contribute to the development of business environments and policies that facilitate and enhance cross-border trade. The article also highlights the conditions of poverty and lack of economic opportunities at the border, which lead people to engage in informal cross-border trading activities. To address this issue, community service activities have been conducted to educate border residents on determining the selling price of goods based on production costs. The training activities aim to increase understanding and financial literacy skills, ultimately contributing to the growth and sustainability of businesses in the border area. The article concludes by discussing the successful empowerment of border actors in the Wini and Nipane regions through improved financial literacy and selling price literacy. The involvement of participants, stakeholders, and local authorities from both Indonesia and Timor-Leste played a crucial role in this success. The training provided to informal business actors at the border helped them determine competitive and fair selling prices, leading to fair transactions and the sustainability of their businesses. This effort has contributed to the economic development and well-being of the border residents of both countries. [Extracted from the article]

This study shows that the incorporation of the first-person plural pronoun a gente has not only reached the southernmost tip of the Brazilian territory, but has crossed the border and entered Uruguayan Portuguese, or varieties of Portuguese spoken in northern Uruguay by Portuguese–Spanish bilinguals. This finding is based on the quantification of the a gente/nós variable in sociolinguistic interviews carried out in two border communities: Aceguá, Brazil, and Aceguá, Uruguay. The analysis of interviews recorded on each side of the border yielded a total of 1000 tokens that were submitted to a multivariate analysis. Following the premises of comparative sociolinguistics, we compared the distribution of the variable on both sides of the border and found that although Uruguayans used a gente less often than Brazilians, this innovation, preferred by young speakers, is incorporated in both dialects, following similar linguistic paths. These results show that Uruguayan Portuguese has incorporated the pronominal a gente in its grammar in a clear sign of convergence towards Brazilian Portuguese and divergence from Spanish, despite the coexistence with Spanish that categorically uses nosotros as the first-person plural pronoun and reserves the cognate la gente for its purely lexical meaning 'the people'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many educators living near the United States and Mexico border were transfronterizo students—young people with familial and institutional ties to both countries, who crossed the border each day to attend United States schools. This study is concerned with how these teachers' identities formed within distinct sociocultural contexts like the Borderlands and how this can serve education institutions invested in teacher identity work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The 2022–2023 mpox (monkeypox) outbreak has spread rapidly across multiple countries in the non-endemic region, mainly among men who have sex with men (MSM). In this study, we aimed to evaluate mpox's importation risk, border screening effectiveness and the risk of local outbreak in Chinese mainland. Methods: We estimated the risk of mpox importation in Chinese mainland from April 14 to September 11, 2022 using the number of reported mpox cases during this multi-country outbreak from Global.health and the international air-travel data from Official Aviation Guide. We constructed a probabilistic model to simulate the effectiveness of a border screening scenario during the mpox outbreak and a hypothetical scenario with less stringent quarantine requirement. And we further evaluated the mpox outbreak potential given that undetected mpox infections were introduced into men who have sex with men, considering different transmissibility, population immunity and population activity. Results: We found that the reduced international air-travel volume and stringent border entry policy decreased about 94% and 69% mpox importations respectively. Under the quarantine policy, 15–19% of imported infections would remain undetected. Once a case of mpox is introduced into active MSM population with almost no population immunity, the risk of triggering local transmission is estimated at 42%, and would rise to > 95% with over six cases. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that the reduced international air-travel volume and stringent border entry policy during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced mpox importations prominently. However, the risk could be substantially higher with the recovery of air-travel volume to pre-pandemic level. Mpox could emerge as a public health threat for Chinese mainland given its large MSM community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media and political discourse in the USA often depict migration as an invasion and people who cross borders as criminals dangerous to the nation. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two places on the USA-Mexico Southern border, we want to analyze how invasion narratives influence practices on-the-ground. We first explore how these narratives inform the views of a border militia who see themselves as protectors of the nation and understand people who cross borders as threats. We then argue that migrant women's presence in areas where the militia operates disrupts the dominant narrative that defines migrants as dangerous, as militia members come to understand migrant women as victims of the Cartel. Despite their innocence, to maintain the narrative's consistency, militia members still consider migrant women criminals for crossing the border "illegally." Finally, we move on to explore the materiality of these xenophobic discourses by examining how migrant women are mistreated at a family immigration detention center. Using the militias as an example, we highlight why political narratives circulate and have meaning for individuals and how discourses have material consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the reintroduction of border control at the French-Italian border in 2015, the town of Ventimiglia has witnessed an increasing number of migrants who are deemed illegal in the eyes of the current EU migration system. These people have been blocked or slowed down in their attempt to continue their journeys. This article examines around 120 drawings and writings left by migrants in Ventimiglia at the 'Eufemia' InfoPoint opened by Progetto20k, a collective that provides support to migrants attempting to cross the border. By reflecting upon these migrant experiences, the present work offers a unique perspective of undocumented movements to and through Europe. Such empirical material is invaluable in order to supplement the debate on 'migration traces' along international illegalised migratory routes. Through the analytical lens of 'migration traces', this work evidences the complexity of migration narratives from a bottom-up perspective. It also highlights the need for said perspective to challenge the dominant representation of undocumented migrants, perceived merely as threats and 'objects to be governed'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When countries experience a surge of migrants at their borders, they search for ways to assert control, often using strategies aimed at slowing, reducing, discouraging, or blocking entry. To the extent that national and international law confers rights on some migrants, in particular laws allowing individuals to cross borders to claim asylum, the tools for directly impeding entry may be limited. In this context, states may develop administrative practices to accomplish indirectly what they cannot accomplish directly by law. This article examines the case of metering in the US as an administrative strategy of border control. It traces an unusual path to this strategy, from its origins in informal street-level practices to its evolution into a formal administrative policy extending and ostensibly legitimating those practices. This analysis brings a comparative street-level perspective to the socio-legal analysis of law-in-practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent U.S. policy changes have contributed to longer waiting periods for migrant families in Mexican border cities. This study centers on four Honduran families enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, also referred to as 'Remain in Mexico,' while undergoing prolonged waiting periods in the Mexican border town of Monterrey, Nuevo Léon. Centering on young people's voices, we ask what they learn during this prolonged period of transit. Through ethnographic and digital participatory storytelling interviews, we illustrate how children learned about the politics of border crossing through fraught interactions with im/migration officials, prolonged periods of immobility, and evolving understandings of legality. Building on theories of 'border thinking' and 'politicized funds of knowledge,' we highlight ways that young people employed their evolving understandings of national borders and the legal contours of their transborder asylum process, while protecting themselves and their families from danger and discrimination. We argue that transit is not simply time that young people are forced to endure; rather, the experience of forced transit is constitutive of young people's learning about state power and their evolving understanding of borders, rights, and belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A case of illegal possession of suspect material at the Karasovići border crossing in Croatia was recently recorded and resolved. An increased activity of 226Ra was detected in the suspect material. The seized material consisted of 2 types of samples, black powder and jewellery. The material was analysed by the high-resolution gamma spectrometry method in the Laboratory for Radioecology of the Ruđer Bošković Institute. The seized material was confirmed to contain uranium. The material was additionally analysed by the X-ray diffraction method. Identified mineral phases have not been found in Croatia so far, therefore it is not possible that the material in question originates from Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being one of the most prevalent neurological symptoms, headaches are burdensome and costly. Blocks and decompression surgeries of the greater occipital nerve (GON) have been frequently used for migraine, cervicogenic headache, and occipital neuralgia which are classified under headache by International Headache Society. Knowledge of complex anatomy of GON is crucial for its decompression surgery and block. This study was performed to elucidate anatomical features of this nerve in detail. Forty‐one cadavers were dissected bilaterally. According to its morphological features, GON was classified into four main types that included 18 subtypes. Moreover, potential compression points of the nerve were defined. The number of branches of the GON up to semispinalis capitis muscle and the number of its branches that were sent to this muscle were recorded. The most common variant was that the GON pierced the aponeurosis of the trapezius muscle, curved around the lower edge of the obliquus capitis inferior muscle, and was loosely attached to the obliquus capitis inferior muscle (Type 2; 61 sides, 74.4%). In the subtypes, the most common form was Type 2‐A (44 sides, 53.6%), in which the GON pierced the aponeurosis of each of the trapezius muscle and fibers of semispinalis muscle at one point and there was a single crossing of the GON and occipital artery. Six potential compression points of the GON were detected. The first point was where the nerve crossed the lower border of the obliquus capitis inferior muscle. The second and third points were at its piercing of the semispinalis capitis muscle and the muscle fibers/aponeurosis of the trapezius, respectively. Fourth, fifth, and sixth compression points of GON were located where the GON and occipital artery crossed each other for the first, second, and third times, respectively. On 69 sides, 1–4 branches of the GON up to the semispinalis capitis muscle were observed (median = 1), while 1–4 branches of GON were sent to the semispinalis capitis muscle on 67 sides (median = 1). The novel anatomical findings described in this study may play a significant role in increasing the success rate of invasive interventions related with the GON. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective:The worldwide spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic has been driven by international travel. This has led to the desire to develop surveillance approaches which can estimate the rate of import of pathogenic organisms across international borders. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of wastewater-based approaches for the surveillance of viral pathogens on commercial short-haul (3.5 h transit time) roll-on/roll-off passenger/freight ferries operating between the UK and the Republic of Ireland.MethodsSamples of toilet-derived wastewater (blackwater) were collected from two commercial ships over a 4-week period and analysed for SARS-CoV-2, influenza, enterovirus, norovirus, the faecal-marker virus crAssphage and a range of physical and chemical indicators of wastewater quality.ResultsA small proportion of the wastewater samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2 (8% of the total), consistent with theoretical predictions of detection frequency (4%–15% of the total) based on the national COVID-19 Infection Survey and defecation behaviour. In addition, norovirus was detected in wastewater at low frequency. No influenza A/B viruses, enterovirus or enterovirus D68 were detected throughout the study period.ConclusionWe conclude that testing of wastewater from ships that cross international maritime boundaries may provide a cost-effective and relatively unbiased method to estimate the flow of infected individuals between countries. The approach is also readily applicable for the surveillance of other disease-causing agents.

This paper examines the history of crossing the Sino-ChosÅn borders in various contexts. The evolution of border crossing can be traced from its origins as a political mission that was part of the diplomatic ritual to its later development as an economic circuit where individuals vied for profits, and finally to its status as a public program that carried significant weight in high-level politics. Throughout its history, border crossing was characterized by its dual nature, encompassing both ritual and mundane, exotic and domestic, national and international elements. It was emblematic of the ongoing interactions between China/Chinese and Korea/Koreans, and the flows of people and goods between them. These individuals and items were re-identified and re-categorized following their crossing of the borders, and the processes of identification and categorization shed light on the political dynamics of both countries.

In the context of globalization, the demand for English academic writing instruction at the higher education level is experiencing exponential growth. Consequently, it is crucial to conduct research that transcends national, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries in order to address this pressing need. However, there is a scarcity of research examining the intricate and diverse nature of English academic writing instruction across a wide array of national, cultural, and disciplinary contexts, highlighting an area that calls for further investigation. In response to this gap, Anne Golden, Lars Anders Kulbrandstad, and Lawrence Jun Zhang have collaborated as editors on a comprehensive volume titled "Crossing Borders, Writing Texts, Being Evaluated: Cultural and Disciplinary Norms in Academic Writing." This collection aims to inform educators and researchers about the challenges encountered in multilingual contexts of academic writing and propose empirically substantiated solutions and coping strategies. This article provides a summary of each chapter of the volume, highlights notable features, and offers constructive criticism by identifying areas for improvement. Overall, the authors' adeptness in unraveling the complexity and diversity of English academic writing instruction permeates the entire book. Their utilization of empirical studies, insightful findings, practical recommendations, and consideration of diverse contexts all enable their contributions to the field of English academic writing instruction. Consequently, this book serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, educators, and graduate students who seek guidance in navigating the intricacies of teaching and learning academic writing in multilingual contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the increase in migration since 2000 due to insecurity and violence in Mexico, the geographical patterns and differences by types of migration: municipal, state, and international are unknown. Using data from the 2020 Population and Housing Census and employing regression models and spatial analysis, this research shows the association between migration and violence in destination municipalities. The findings indicate that municipal immigrants tended to move primarily to municipalities with high violence rates, while state immigrants moved mainly to municipalities with low levels of violence. On the other hand, international immigrants particularly directed to border cities with varying levels of violence. Consequently, the relationship between immigration rates and violence rates in destination places varies according to the type of migration and geographic borders crossed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Pauline Monastery in Sv. Petar u Šumi became the site of a miracle of lacrimation, i.e., the weeping of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary located on the main altar of the monastery church. The lacrimation occurred on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1721, and lasted throughout the Christmas octave. This work represents the first attempt to analyze archival sources consisting of a later transcript of a part of the chronicle of this Pauline monastery, records from the Pauline Order chronicle, and a report from 1745 conducted by Bishop Gaspare Negri as part of his visitation to this parish in the Imperial part of Istria. Apart from contemporary Pauline historians, this event has not been studied in detail in later historiography, although art historians have touched upon it. The article presents the event of lacrimation and the reaction of the community as a new impetus for the development of pilgrimage to St. Peter. The recorded pilgrims, i.e., the data associated with them (social and family status, origin, education, miracles of healing, votive offerings), are subjected to detailed analysis. It is noted that the news of the lacrimation crossed the borders of the Habsburg Monarchy, and even residents of areas under Venetian administration in Istria were among those who made pilgrimages to Sv. Petar. The lacrimation of the Virgin's image led to the strengthening of this pilgrimage center of the Istrian Peninsula, which found devotees among broader segments of society. The pilgrimage area was limited to the boundaries of the peninsula. The article concludes with a table of data on pilgrims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 2015 and 2018, Catania (Sicily) was one of the main arrival points for border crossers trying to reach the European Union without the necessary authorization from nation-states. A small group of locals involved with the Red Cross in migrant reception in the port decided in 2017 to organize themselves in order to find a way of "respecting" the dead border crossers arriving on European territory, alongside the living, during the search and rescue operations that have formed part of the landscape around the Mediterranean for several years. The idea of respecting the deceased turned into a project to develop a database aimed at providing a name and a biography for the unknown bodies buried in the local cemetery. The team succeeded in convincing the institutions involved in dealing with these bodies of the value of cooperating, which enabled them to consult the files held about the deceased by various police agencies and municipal institutions. Drawing on ethnographic material, we explore here an unexpected effect of the project. Our interlocutors – Red Cross volunteers, employees of the civil registry office, undertakers, forensic police officers – who were all involved in constructing the database, and more broadly in dealing with the bodies, soon expressed an attachment to the deceased. In this essay, we aim to examine the social and emotional feelings of connectedness that are created through everyday acts, and sometimes quite trivial actions: visiting the dead in the cemetery, naming them, dreaming of them recurrently, or telling stories about them during family gatherings. Combining an ethnographic account of these relationships with anthropological scholarship on kinship, as well as on death studies, we intend to bring out some of the features of the new place created within Catania, and among some of its inhabitants, for border crossers who have died at sea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The past two decades have seen a growing de-professionalization of teaching. Combating this educational climate requires music teacher education programs to prioritize both critical pedagogical practices and policy knowhow in order to reestablish a focus on relational engagements and the navigation of the complex tensions lived daily in schools. In this article, we utilize the frameworks of border crossing and policy ethnography to explore the experiences of one music educator acting as a policy practitioner. We focus on the ways she utilized a project in her general music classes as a space for pedagogical risk-taking and policy practice, challenging taken-for-granted norms both within her own music classroom as well as within the larger school setting. We use her experiences to formulate an argument that considers how critical pedagogical practice and policy knowhow might be seen as interdependent partners in music teacher education, both equally important when advancing a forward-looking agenda of professionalization in music education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In theory, collaboration is a key component of education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In practice, however, cross sector collaborative relationships are not so easily established or maintained, even when collaboration is 'mandated' through government policy. This research explores the perspectives of nine teachers from one Kāhui Ako/Community of Learning (Kāhui Ako), who discussed the successes and challenges they experienced when collaborating across sectors. With commitment to collaborative work, the research participants were able to cross the borders that exist within and extend beyond the education sectors, exploring exciting new frontiers of leadership and learning. The teachers' experiences were analysed using a social learning theory lens, highlighting the complex nature of cross-sector collaboration. It is hoped this research will support other education communities to evaluate the effectiveness of their own collaborative endeavours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to analyze Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home (2018), through the lens of crossing borders in search of home and belonging. The memoir exemplifies Patricia Hill Collins's intersectional approach, which, according to the authors of The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege, "examines how race, gender, and other systems of inequality interact and intersect within a matrix of oppression and privilege" (xi). Thus, Grande's work will be examined using the intersectional approach, along with the concepts of trauma, insidious trauma, hostipitality, and Leo R. Chavez's "Latino Threat Narrative" to analyze representations of multiple border crossings and their effects on the main character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his book Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China, Yingjin Zhang proposes polylocality as a theoretical framework to perceive Chinese cinema within a cross border and worldly network. Through polylocality, Zhang argues that cinema designates the relationality among differentiated positions across places, which challenges the concept of transnational cinema that predominantly underscores the spatial relationship between cinema and the world. The act of mobilization, migration, and nomadicity in the process of filmmaking also innovates (un-)wanted mutuality, intimacy, and reciprocity, with or without plan. In this paper, I argue that the framework of polylocality bears the potentiality to open the process of documentary filmmaking as a solitary practice, both on and off screen, through a close reading of Havana Divas, a documentary featuring two Cantonese opera divas living in Cuba. I contend that the field of transpacific studies, breaking through from the national imagination in the concept of (trans-)national cinema, reinforces Zhang's theory of polylocality and sheds light on the film practice that involves the mutual mobilization of both the filmmaker and the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of “cross-border teachers” has been extensively explored as a method to cultivate cultural competence among educators working in diverse cultural settings, often teaching in cultures different from their own. It has also been examined in the context of the sense of belonging and otherness experienced by teachers working in schools with cultural characteristics distinct from their own. The multiculturalism of Israeli society means teachers come from different parts of society. While the challenges of Arab educators have been examined, little is known about ultra-orthodox teachers in the Israeli education field. The current study concentrates on ultra-Orthodox teachers as a case study for those who instruct in schools outside their community. These educators grapple with identity gaps within the schools they teach, where the cultural character differs significantly from their own. The research is grounded in interviews with approximately 30 ultra-orthodox teachers engaged in non-ultra-orthodox schools. These teachers delineate the challenges arising from the dissonance between their identity and that of the schools where they work. The analysis explores various gaps between the teachers and the populations they encounter. The findings reveal that identity gaps manifest in three spheres – personal, organizational, and social. The teachers have developed coping strategies, influenced by the religious boundaries between them and the school environments. These strategies range from attempting conflict resolution to demonstrating flexibility when confronted with challenges. The study sheds light on how cross-border teachers navigate the education system, emphasizing the importance of diversity and multiculturalism among teaching staff in mitigating conflicts within the teaching profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we bridge fields of English as a Second Language, Bilingual, and World Language teacher education through curricular innovation in methods coursework for future Chinese language teachers. We apply a language curricularization framework to analyze theoretical, ideological, political, and contextual factors underlying connections and distinctions across disciplinary borders and to guide collaboration within a language equity lens. Our work indicates the affordances of translanguaging approaches, a multilingual turn, and critical curricular analysis in preparing critically conscious language educators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the interdisciplinary reflection on the selected social phenomenon, Samuel Velebný guides us through the network of non-obvious correlations, connects the analysis of locally specific conditions in the region with global influences and overlaps, examines the permeability of established boundaries between large categories of nature, play and culture, and finally, in the actual implementation of the works, confidently moves on the border of urbanism, design and visual art. Velebný´s approach can be characterized by a focus on the informative detail, patient untangling the bundle of correlations combined with the ability to think in broader contexts overcoming commonly perceived space-and-time relationships. In search of connections, he crosses the borders of disciplines, regions, continents and, ultimately, our home planet itself. For example, the concentrated interest in the cultural history of the potato beetle allows the artist to follow a subtle web of imagination, biology, military conflicts, colonialism, and the settlement of extraterrestrial spaces. He subjects the phenomenon of globalized football and its media representation to a similar discursive analysis. The persuasiveness and quality of Samuel Velebny’s works lies in his ability to create enriching objects and situations through which surprising correlations and exploratory cross-connections become visible in our living space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The North-western French-Italian border is an important cross point for people coming from the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean routes aiming to reach Northern-continental European countries and the United Kingdom. According to the data we collected, in 2021 some 10,369 people, including 400 unaccompanied minors and 412 families, arrived at the Alpine border - twice the 2020 numbers, when around 4,700 stopped at the two shelters. Although in 2022 the figure had dropped to about 8,500 it remains high, confirming this border as highly relevant. Based on data collected between 2021 and 2022 in Oulx, a village in the upper Susa Valley, North-western Italy, this article aims to investigate the impact of borders on migrants' temporalities among people who cross the border with France wanting to reach Europe. Borders as a spatial mechanism for controlling people's movement are bound up with time: the time of displacement in camps, the time migrants spend attempting to cross the borders, the overall time their movement takes, which is also affected by mobility policies. This does not happen in a vacuum of migrant agency. People on the move respond to the constraints of border regimes in a variety of ways, including resorting to smugglers and changing family and household figurations. However, as this article aims to show, the kinds of responses adopted are not always freely chosen, but they are forms of adaptation to the circumstances and constraints imposed by the border regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Authors and illustrators of children's literature often tend to view their readers as vulnerable and in need of protection. They take on the responsibility of shielding their implied readers from the impact of the conflict that they are writing about, either by including elements that enable the children to distance themselves from the narrative or by choosing presumably less-distressing elements. They draw the boundaries for what is acceptable and what isn't in narratives about border-crossing for young children. In order to analyze the power hierarchy between the adult creators and the young readers in such conflict narratives, I employ the framework of Rhetorical Theory of Narrative to explore the choices made by the illustrators and authors of five contemporary picture-books about Arab refugees to consider how the scenes of the conflict are being shown through images and words. I also examine how these depictions are likely to impact the reader, who takes on the role of witness while reading the words and the pictures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article addresses border crossings in the 1970s related to sexual commerce, in particular in the small community of Hälle, located near the Sweden–Norway border at Svinesund and European route E6. As the legal situation with regard to pornography differed in Norway and Sweden, Swedish legislation being more liberal, Norwegians travelled to Sweden to both buy and to consume on-site sexually explicit material and entertainment. By choosing this perspective, the article shifts focus away from the sexually explicit material itself, towards the spaces in which it can be found, and reflects upon consumption of such material as a literally transgressive, non-normative sexual behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The movement of people between N'Djamena (Chad) and Kousseri (Cameroon) has drastically increased since the construction of the Nguéli Bridge linking the two cities in 1985. This massive movement of people came to a sudden halt in 2020 when the Chadian authorities put measures in place to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. From then on, movement from one bank of the Logone River to the other was conditioned by the presentation of an official document authorising traders to cross the border. The bridge became a locale for border users to develop "winning strategies" to maintain their daily movement between the two cities. This article analyses the strategies that Chadian roadside vendors used to move between the two borders, despite the muzzling of movement across the Nguéli Bridge during the Covid-19 period. The data collected in the field through interviews and direct observation show that Chadian vendors used relational networks to ensure their daily activities in the two towns, some of them opting for a shorter migratory movement and others for a long-term migration to the town of Maroua. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores the tensions between two positions on revolutionary subjectivity. The first confines it to the production process and the creation of value, and the second ignores the value-form as economistic Marxist orthodoxy. I consider a third position that tries to capture the reach and open-endedness of capitalism, and in the process imagine a more expansive conception of revolutionary subjectivity. Accounting for the vastness of capitalism's reach entails thinking with and beyond the production of value—about the preconditions that make the wage-relation possible—that is the reproduction of society, broadly conceived. This not only encompasses reproductive labor but also implicates broader gender and race relations through precarity and the gig economy, as well as struggles over homes and housing, health care, and border crossing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Gordie Howe International Bridge project is providing a new modern border crossing between Windsor, ON, Canada and Detroit, MI, USA. The centrepiece of the project is a 2.5 km long cable-stayed bridge with 853 m main span over the Detroit River and 220 m tall towers on both sides of the river. In addition to the bridge, the project includes ports of entry on both sides of the border and a new freeway interchange with Interstate-75 in Detroit. The project was procured as a public–private partnership that allowed the proponents to propose either a suspension or cable-stayed bridge, with the ultimate selection creating the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America. The paper outlines the need for the new border crossing and results of the environmental assessment process, as well as describing the project evolution from planning through procurement and into detailed design. The scoping of the bridge design parameters is discussed, including: comprehensive geotechnical investigation; load study to develop project-specific live loading; the approach for durability requirements to achieve a service life of 125 years; special considerations for security; wind engineering; and compliance with both Canadian and US design codes. The paper also discusses the approach to achieving an aesthetically pleasing bridge design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]