The Network brings together expertise from multiple disciplines, combining legal studies, ethnographic fieldwork and border studies to explore the multiple constructions and practices of borders and bordering in the world today.
Drawing on the members' backgrounds in law and border studies, our project begins with the observation that law does not only draw borders on paper. It shapes and regulates them, creating thresholds that complicate the lives of those who cross or live alongside them. Borders, in this sense, are not static lines but shifting legal constructs that affect who may move, under what conditions, and with what consequences.
The opening event is co-financed by the UR Law Faculty and the Equal Opportunities Office.
