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International migration and other types of cross-border movement of people are becom-ing an important part of international relations in Northeast Asia. In this pioneering study, experts on China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Russia examine the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of the interaction between border-crossing individuals and host communities, highlighting the challenges that face national and local leaders in each country and suggesting needed changes in national and international policies. The authors analyze population trends and migration patterns in each country

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and political unions; and (c) discusses extensions and directions for further research.

The paper confirms a strikingly large effect of national borders on trade patterns. Estimates comparing trade among Canadian provinces with that between Canadian provinces and US states show interprovincial trade in 1988–90 to have been more than 20 times as dense as that between provinces and states, with some evidence of a downward trend since, owing to the post‐FTA growth in trade between Canada and the USA. Using approximate data for the volumes and distances of internal trade in OECD countries, the 1988–92 border effect for unrelated OECD countries is estimated to exceed 12. Estimates from a census‐based gravity model of interprovincial and international migration show a much higher border effect for migration than for trade, with interprovincial migration among the Anglophone provinces almost 100 times as dense as that from US states to Canadian provinces.

Anthropological notions of borders as spatial, social, &/or cultural discontinuities are investigated, discussing differences in the notions of political, cultural, natural, & social boundaries. Current anthropological interpretations of cultural boundaries perceive the muddling, rather than the maintenance, of cultural discontinuities. The distinct approaches of multiculturalists & interculturalists with regard to cultural discontinuity are reviewed; it is noted that multiculturalism utilizes cultural differences as a means of resistance against hegemonic structures. Contrary to Samuel P. Huntington's (1996) argument that cultural differences have replaced political & ideological attitudes, the increase of boundary-crossing individuals has brought disparate cultures into contact. It is concluded that anthropologists should investigate the relationship between society & actual national borders, the interplay between social & cultural discontinuities, & the viability of the notion of global homogenization. 2 Photographs, 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractReplacing a banknotes series is meaningful for politicians and the general public even today, while most transactions are executed through virtual means. The choice of images carried on banknotes represents the limits of the State's sovereign border and becomes a means of banal nationalism. Moreover, by utilising scopic regimes, the hegemony portrays the cultural and political borders: historical figures from the country's past on one side, and an imagined or physical border, expressed through the illustrations on the back. This paper addresses the latter and examines the case of the State of Israel. The analysis of sites and landscapes that appear on national banknotes can decipher the construction process of a 'territorial identity' which, along with struggles for maintaining identity, provides the basis of the nation‐state. Using Williams's typology of selective tradition, we argue that Israeli banknotes demonstrate a mixture of residual and new cultural content.

Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Annette Weissenrieder: Introduction -- 1. Formation and Transformation of Space: Georg Simmel's Theory of Borders -- 2. Formation and Transformation of Space: Frontiers and Boundaries -- 3. Formation and Transformation of Space: Border and Boundaries -- 4. The heuristic value of analyzing borders -- I. Borders, Frontiers, and Boundaries of Land and City: Terms, Performances, and Ideologies -- Annette Schellenberg: "And God Separated the Light from the Darkness" (Gen 1:4) - On the Role of Borders in the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch -- 1. Basic Separations -- 2. Spatial Borders (Holy Land -- Different Zones of Holiness) -- 3. Cultic Borders (Holy-Common -- Pure-Impure) -- 4. Anthropological Borders (Priests-Ordinary Israelites -- Israelites-Foreigners) -- 5. Summary -- Martina Kepper: What to do with borders when they become obsolete? Strategies of re-defining border concepts in the Hebrew and Greek Text of Genesis -- 1. The land and its boundaries: a very brief overview -- 2. Setting the stage: The borders of "the land" in Old Testament writings -- 3. Changing the perspective: a dynamic border concept in Genesis -- 4. Blurring the borders: Transformation through translation -- 5. Conclusion -- David L. Balch :Borders: Terms, Ideologies, and Performances. Jesus and the Samaritan / Judean Border -- 1. Introduction: Wayne Meeks' critique of Rudolf Bultmann on Christian Ethics -- 2. Jesus' Sayings and his Healing of Foreigners -- 3. Social Boundaries: Josephus and Recent Archaeology of Samaritans -- 3.1 Josephus on the Samaritans -- 3.2 Archaeological Excavations in Samaria -- 4. Rituals / Symbols of Ethnic Identity and Social / Religious Change -- 4.1 Jonathan Z. Smith on Social Conflict and Change -- 4.2 Symbols of Jewish and of Greco-Roman Cultural Identity: Circumcision and Roman Baths.

In the process of globalization, the nation-state's power to control its borders is disintegrating. In some respects, national borders have completely lost their relevance, owing to certain adverse ecological developments like the degradation of the ozone layer & other virtually global threats. They are also of limited use in influencing the speed & content of some trade operations concerning goods or currencies or the free flow of media information, but they continue to function efficiently for people. Immigration laws & certain other procedures of "rich" countries tend to distinguish between wanted & unwanted immigrants. Because of various catastrophes & disasters, widespread violence, & anticipation of bleak economic futures, the number of migrants continues to grow rapidly, as does the pressure from migrants from the "poor" & densely populated countries of the world on the borders of the "rich" countries. This is a multidimensional development with political, economic, & moral aspects. 23 References. Adapted from the source document.