Principal Investigator: Michela Ceccorulli
Historically, the European Union has engaged in processes that have significantly modified its internal and external borders. Starting with the integration process, through the enlargement phases and strengthened cooperation with third countries, internal and external borders have changed ensuing the EU’s own evolution or attempts at solving crises situations. Recently, the refugee crisis, the Covid-pandemic and the following economic slowdown have underlined and sometimes even ignited a process of deep rethinking of EU’s border in practical and narrative terms. Renewed attention to the 'geopolitical EU' and the war against Ukraine have furthered this process. Borders and boundaries widely intended have opened/closed, have filtered/selected, have included/marginalised at the same time, touching upon multiple issue areas, from health to economy and mobility among others. Borders can be hard (walls, fences, surveillance systems, agencies operations among others) or soft (socially constructed boundaries having to do with processes of self-identification). But what do they mean? How do they frame the EU and what do they tell us of the EU? REBOUND aims at considering the ‘re-bordering and de-bordering’ power of the EU, looking at different dimensions: internal, external and global. Each dimension is looked at from the point of view of narratives used and practices enacted and privileged realms of examination are EU’s global role in the liberal order, the governance of migration and the impact of and reactions to globalization dynamics.
Website: https://site.unibo.it/rebound/en
Members of the Department
Giuliana Laschi
Marco Puleri
Sonia Lucarelli
Maria Laura Lanzillo
Fabio Casini
Other members
| Claudio Minca |
Dipartimento Storia Culture Civiltà |
Publications
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 2015
Conferences, lectures and talks
Events — REBOUND - Rethinking Borders in and by the European Union