Essays about: "Border city"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 essays containing the words Border city.

  1. 1. Violence, Resistance and the Border Regime: Shedding Light on the Reality at the Patras Settlement : Daily Struggles of People on the Move Through the Eyes of Volunteers

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Alexia Rebeyrolle; [2023]
    Keywords : Migration; Patras; Greece; Legal Limbo; Borderscape; Refugee camp; Volunteering; Borders; Violence;

    Abstract : The securitisation and externalisation of Europe's borders have had devastating consequences for people trying to cross them. As Greece is on the periphery of the European Union, its role in this process and in the journey of people on the move is crucial. READ MORE

  3. 2. Spatializing Hospitality : A design exploration on how to provide spatial agency to immigrant households in Sweden

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Kajsa Grundström; [2023]
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    Abstract : The thesis investigates how a host country can apply ethics of hospitality to housing that allow refugees and asylum seekers spatial agency. The necessity of doing this is to reduce the passive state of being “guests” for refugees when they are waiting for answers of asylum application approval. READ MORE

  4. 3. Borderland Peripheries. from dead end - to new beginning

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Maya Kranner; [2023]
    Keywords : Rural renewal; cross-border initiatives; periphery; social sustainability; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : It’s been 34 years ago now since the iron curtain has parted the European continent and its inhabitants in an East and a West. The analysed area for the following thesis on the border between northern Austria and southern Czechia gives a case example of a region, that is still suffering from an era, where one sky-direction has been erased from people’s everyday living and thinking – leaving the border areas as a dead end for either country. READ MORE

  5. 4. Vision Valhallavägen

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Vendela Folke; [2023]
    Keywords : Architecture; Stockholm; Valhallavägen; City planning; Smart streets;

    Abstract : Valhallavägen is a large boulevard in Stockholm spanning from Roslagstull to Gärdet. It’s 3.5 km long, making it the longest street in the inner city of Stockholm. It acts as a border between the stone city and the free landscape of Nationalstadsparken and the institution belt. READ MORE

  6. 5. "Where there is room to fight for your beliefs that is the ideal place" : Imagination and agency of Athenians with migratory background

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Georgia Dekavalla; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; city; space; bordering; othering; imagination; hybridity;

    Abstract : In the globalized world, border regimes are ambiguous, withdrawn or reinforced based on who approaches them, where and how. Borders are equally the boundaries that permeate spaces of nation-states and cut across them through racialized, gendered, and classed divisions. READ MORE