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This book examines neighbourhoods and networks between the diverse people of contemporary Europe who live in a globalized and globalizing world, across different types of borders: physical and mental, geopolitical and symbolic.

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List of Maps, Photographs and Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements PART I: STARTING POINTS: BORDERS, NEIGHBOURHOODS AND NETWORKS IN THE NEW EUROPE Borders, Networks, Neighbourhoods: Conceptual Frames and Social Practices; U.Meinhof Bordering, De-bordering, Cross-bordering: European Perspectives; H.Armbruster PART II: SITES OF BORDERING, NEIGHBOURING AND NETWORKING Becoming Good Neighbours in Cyprus: Civic Action and the Relevance of the State; O.Demetriou, G.Christou & J.Mavris Environmental Conflict in the Austrian-Hungarian Borderland: Struggling for Political Participation; D.Wastl-Walter & M.Váradi On Linkages and Barriers: The Dynamics of Neighbourhood along the State Borders of Hungary Post EU Enlargement; µ.Er?ss, B.Filep, K.Kocsis & P.Tátrai Integration, Post-Holocaust Identities and ´No-go Areas´: Public Discourse and the Everyday Experience of Exclusion in a German Region; I.Carstensen-Egwuom & W.Holly Integration into What? The Intercultural Week, Mental Borders and Multiple Identities in the German Town of Bayreuth; H.Dorsch Immigrants and Natives: Ways of Constructing New Neighbourhoods in Catania, Sicily; O.Licciardello & D.Damigella Networks and ´Safe Spaces´ of Black European Women in Germany and Austria; C.Ellerbe-Dueck Index

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INKEN CASTENSEN-EGWOUM holds a Scholarship at the University of Bremen, Germany GEORGINA CHRISTOU Graduate of Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and holds postgraduate degrees in Human Rights from the University of Malta, Malta, and European Studies from UCL, UK. DANIELA DAMIGELLA Teaches at the University of Catania, Italy OLGA DEMETRIOU Senior Researcher at the PRIO Cyprus Centre, a branch of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway HAUKE DORSCH Social Anthropologist and Director of African Music Archives at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany CASSANDRA ELLERBE-DUECK Diversity Manager for the city of Mannheim, Germany µGNES ER?SS Studied at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary BÉLA FILEP Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government at Harvard University, USA WERNER HOLLY Professor of German Philology at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany KµROLY KOCSIS Professor of Geography, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and Director of the Geographical Research Institute of HAS (Budapest) and the Institute of Geography at the University of Miskolc, Hungary ORAZIO LICCIARDELLO Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Catania, Italy JOHN C. MAVRIS Director of Communications at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and a Member of the Cyprus Sociological Association PATRIK TµTRAI Research Fellow in the Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary MONIKA MµRIA VµRADI Sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Centre of Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary DORIS WASTL-WALTER Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Berne, Switzerland

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