Borderline Cases
Instructions for Use
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The Socialist state border was “defended”. Since the end of the East-West conflict, the paradigm is “guard”. Border controls have lost meaning, surveillance procedures have shifted into the interior. Economic, cultural, and political differences have not been abolished. The border is today no longer a sharp line of division, but more a zone where national stereotypes overlap, the flow of goods converges, people meet, an area of contact for imaginary and real differences.
(Osteuropa 2-3/2009, pp. 291–310)