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"In today's globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states"--

In today's globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.

Résumé Parenté, communauté, entraide : différences entre la ville et la campagne en Croatie Fondé sur un double terrain croate, urbain et rural, cet article analyse le rôle des parents dans la Croatie d'après le socialisme. En dépit de points communs, comme la proximité résidentielle de la proche famille et l'importance de la parentèle, deux rationalités distinctes sont en fait à l'œuvre. Dans le complexe urbain de Travno, la proximité spatiale des proches parents permet l'entraide intra-familiale, ce qui facilite l'ajustement des familles aux nouvelles demandes de flexibilité de la vie professionnelle et aux jeunes femmes d'entrer sur le marché du travail. En milieu rural, où l'emploi est plus limité, la proximité et les valeurs familiales conduisent les femmes à rester à la maison ou à s'impliquer dans une agriculture de subsistance. Celles qui ne se plient pas à ce modèle émigrent. L'importance croissante des fêtes marquant les étapes du cycle de la vie familiale, au cours desquelles se renforcent les réseaux superposés de parenté, de voisinage, d'amitié et de parrainage, contribue à la stabilisation des communautés rurales et au maintien de leur modèle de parenté spécifique.

Migrating borders and moving times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.

Migrating Borders and Moving Times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time, and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.

Using original field data from Israel and northern and south-eastern Europe, the contributors argue that new insights are generated by approaching border crossing as a process with diverse temporalities whose relationship to space has always to be empirically determined.

During the last decades the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had a destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state's withdrawal from providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One response to these developments has been increased migration, which poses further challenges to kinship-based social support systems. This volume focuses on the ambiguous role of religious networks as providers of social security

This interdisciplinary anthology addresses the criticism that previous investigations of borders often lack complexity and, therefore, fall short. Instead, the authors assess the complex interplay of elements and dimensions of borders and show how this gives rise to instances of disorder/order and how such disorder/order becomes socially and spatially effective. They discuss principles of complexity-oriented border research, the significance of borders in emergent disorder/order formations and border demarcations as examples of social disorder/order in European border regions, the EU's and US' migration systems, and virtual realities. This book makes an important contribution to the emerging complexity shift in current border studies.