The EU's eastern neighbourhood : migration, borders and regional stability /

The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration of political, economic and social ti...

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Main Authors: Liikanen, Ilkka (Author, Editor), Scott, James Wesley, 1956- (Author, Editor), Sotkasiira, Tiina (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2016.
Series:BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 107.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The end of wider Europe? : The EU, changing borders and spatial imaginaries of post-Soviet space / Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott and Tina Sotkasiira
  • 1. Building regional stability through cross-border cooperation : changing spatial imaginaries and sovereignty concepts of EU neighbourhood policies / Ilkka Liikanen
  • 2. Ukraine : history confronts geography / Volodymyr Kravchenko
  • 3. Borders and nation-building in post-Soviet space : a glance from the Republic of Moldova / Octavian Ticu
  • 4. Reconceptualisations of borders in post-Soviet Ukraine : between EU regulations, the Soviet legacy and internal political strife / Olga Filippova
  • 5. Eastern neighbourhood as a political divide : critically assessing EU policies of regional cross-border cooperation in the case of Ukraine / James Wesley Scott
  • 6. Bordering in post-Soviet Central Asia : two tales from Tajikistan / Joni Virkkunen and Paul Fryer
  • 7. Of barriers, breaches and bridges : cross-border ecotourism and the prospect of horizontal governance acting as a bridge in Belarus-EU neighbourhood relations / Anaïs Marin
  • 8. Where ideals and anxieties meet : the EU and migration policy in wider Europe / Tiina Sotkasira
  • 9. The new concept of migration policy of the Russian Federation : revolution or re-evolution? / Sergia Riazantsev
  • 10. The Republic of Belarus : flows and tendencies in migration processes / Larissa Titarenko
  • 11. What kind of choice? : understanding migration in Tajikistan / Paul Fryer, Joni Virkkunen and Furugzod Usmonov
  • 12. Labour migration and the contradictory logic of integration in Russia / Olga Tkach and Olga Brenikova
  • 13. Colonial imagination on a postcolonial periphery : educational migration in Azerbaijan and the construction of an elite of expectations / Sergey Rumyantsev
  • 14. Gendered migration from Moldova and Ukraine to the EU : who cares? / Olga Davydova-Minguet, Valeriu Mosneaga and Oleskii Pozniak
  • 15. Contemporary Ukrainian migration to EU countries : trends and challenges / Ihor Markov.