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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 1d

Jussi P. Laine has published a new chapter in the Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands, edited by James W. Scott and Thomas M. Wilson.

🔗 borderlab.eu/research-new... (open access)

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 4d

Replacing passport stamps with digital records, the system will collect biometric and personal data, marking a major step toward the full digitisation of Europe’s external borders.

🔗https://borderlab.eu/estonia-news/estonia-and-eu-to-introduce-new-digital-entry-exit-system-ees-from-october-12/

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 4d

From October 12, a new EU-wide Entry/Exit System (EES) will be introduced across European countries, including Estonia, to register third-country nationals entering and leaving the Schengen area.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11d

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Bordering in silence: A volumetric archive of identity - Eur-Asian BorderLab

This work by Mia Tran is the second runner-up essay of the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s […]

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11d

The review team noted this essay was so deeply personal that conventional theoretical frameworks would have destroyed what it accomplishes. Identity here is volumetric, layered, and beautifully contradictory, expanding across generations and geographies in ways that refuse simple categorisation.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11d

This moment sits at the heart of Mia’s essay, now published as our second runner-up from the volumetric borders contest. The essay moves between her father’s 1979 refugee journey🌊 and her mother’s 2005 gender-expectation rebellion. Mia herself is in between...

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 11d

When Mia Tran pinned a single letter to her mother on a gallery wall in Saigon, she didn’t expect what happened next. Thousands of strangers covered that wall with Post-it notes - secrets, longings, grief they’d never spoken aloud. An art exhibition became a space where people could finally be seen.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17d

Check out the essay if you haven’t 👇
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#EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #GlobalHealth #DigitalHealth #VolumetricBorders

Bodies, bytes, and borders: Unpacking the volumetric barriers of global healthcare access - Eur-Asian BorderLab

This work by Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu is the first runner-up essay of the Eur-Asian […]

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17d

Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu, runner-up in our Volumetric Borders essay contest, shows how healthcare🏥 apartheid emerges from the intersection of biological, digital, and geopolitical barriers. Through her essay, she reveals how bodies themselves become border zones.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17d

This logic runs deep in everyday healthcare. Electronic records privilege some symptoms and identities while erasing others. Telemedicine expands access only for those with digital literacy and stable connections...💻

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 17d

Healthcare systems have long operated as sorting mechanisms, but the pandemic exposed just how political and uneven this sorting is.🌍 Vaccine access was not dictated by medical need but by entrenched infrastructures of wealth and power, leaving many frontline workers in the Global South unprotected.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24d

The issue emerges from our 2024 symposium and examines how ordinary people in borderlands create practical strategies for survival through everyday actions and local knowledge.

🔗 borderlab.eu/news/first-a...

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First article published from the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s special issue on borderland vernaculars - Eur-Asian BorderLab

Eur-Asian Lab member Mikel Venhovens has published “Suffocating borderlands: enduring coping mechanisms amidst tight control […]

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24d

This is the first article🥳 from our upcoming special issue “Borderland vernaculars: Coping, resilience, and action in times of crisis,” edited by Lab members Karin Dean, Jussi P. Laine, and Raili Nugin.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 24d

New research from our Lab member Mikel Venhovens reveals how ethnic Georgian minorities survive in Abkhazia’s Gal(i) borderlands - caught between systematic suppression and impossible choices.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 26d

Her closing poem is even more haunting💔: “My name is missing from the dropdown menu, my wound too blurred for the algorithm. They ask for proof of body, but I am already a border.”

🔗Read the full essay: borderlab.eu/blog/bodies-...
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Bodies, bytes, and borders: Unpacking the volumetric barriers of global healthcare access - Eur-Asian BorderLab

This work by Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu is the first runner-up essay of the Eur-Asian […]

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 26d

Tappu maps three overlapping healthcare borders: political control over bodies, digital divides that exclude millions from telemedicine, and territorial constraints that trap patients on the wrong side of power.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 26d

The first runner-up essay from our volumetric borders contest is now live, and it reveals how healthcare has become a battlefield of invisible barriers.🏥

Gwen Petrina Latenri Tappu, a medical student from #Indonesia, was selected from over 300 global submissions for "Bodies, bytes, and borders."

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 29d

Conference📅: May 18-21, 2026, Fez, Morocco
Abstract deadline🛑: October 15, 2025
🔗Full CFP: colloquemurs.uqam.ca/fr/frontiere...

#EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #GlobalSouth #DecolonialScholarship

UQAM | Murs, barrières , frontières: vers un nouvel agenda d'études des murs frontaliers - Colloque international

Colloque international organisé par la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand - mai 2025 – Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 29d

For researchers across #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, and Indigenous communities worldwide, this represents a crucial space to present work on deglobalisation, border fortification, and migration governance from lived experience and non-Western theoretical frameworks.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 29d

This conference operates in English, French, and Arabic - recognising that transformative scholarship happens in multiple languages and epistemic traditions. It specifically seeks work that challenges colonial constructs of territorial sovereignty and fixed border regimes.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · 29d

A rare opportunity is emerging for researchers worldwide🌍, particularly those working outside dominant Western frameworks. The Fez Border Studies Conference II actively centres Global South perspectives, Indigenous knowledge systems, and alternative approaches to understanding borders and security.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here’s a glimpse into what the guest lecture offered 👇
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#EurAsianBorderLab #BorderStudies #MaritimeGovernance #GuestLecture

Fluid boundaries and maritime governance: Eur-Asian Border Lab hosts National Taiwan University scholars - Eur-Asian BorderLab

On 27 August 2025, the Eur-Asian Border Lab, in collaboration with the Taiwan–Estonia Cooperation Programme, […]

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · Sep 11

The engaged participants asked thought-provoking questions that sparked lively debate, bringing their own insights and perspectives. It was also a delightful surprise to have our own Prof. Jussi P. Laine from the University of Eastern Finland join us, enriching the conversation.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Po-Yi’s concept of “elastic sovereignty” and Mei-Huan’s analysis of infrastructure as both divider and connector offered fresh ways to understand how power, resources, and identity intersect in fluid environments.

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Recently, we hosted scholars from National Taiwan University, Prof. Po-Yi Hung and Dr. Mei-Huan Chen, for a fascinating exploration of maritime🌊governance and territorial dynamics.

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