scholarly journals Pulled towards the Border: Creating a Disability Identity at the Interstices of Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jori De Coster
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
The Body ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Crossing Point

<p>Borderlands produce flows of people and commodities, but as 'in-between' places they also produce social and cultural hybrids and transformations. Within these cross-border economies, transformations take place on both material and conceptual levels. Thus, the body involved in trade networks in the borderland is subject to different socio-economic and corporeal transformations. As a borderland, Beach Ngobila, the official border crossing point at Kinshasa facing Brazzaville, creates a lot of economic opportunities for the Congolese population. It is a means of cushioning the present political and especially socio-economic situation in D.R. Congo that causes hardship, especially for people with disabilities who belong to the lower end of society. However, Beach Ngobila creates a specific situation: those most marginalized by society are advantaged and successful at the borderland through border trade activities. As a result their participation at the border zone questions the notion of "disability" in modern Congolese society.</p><p>Key words: borderlands, border trade, disability, power, identity</p>

Promoting Women’s Participation in Cross-border Trade in South Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Talajeh Livani ◽  
Jennifer Solotaroff
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
Trade Facilitation ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Border Trade

Historically, practitioners and policymakers have overlooked gender issues in the trade space; however, research in recent decades strongly suggests that trade is not gender neutral. Cross-border trade produces changes in employment and prices, and these changes have different effects on women and men. Moreover, because women and men do not have equal access to education, networks, transportation and productive resources, their ability to seize trade-related opportunities differs. General trade barriers, such as deficient infrastructure and cumbersome regulatory and documentary requirements, also have gender-differentiated impacts. Drawing from the global literature, this article proposes policy recommendations to expand the benefits of trade to women in South Asia. The recommendations range from strengthening female-dominated export sectors and implementing trade facilitation measures to increasing women’s access to training, productive resources, information, transportation and trade networks.

scholarly journals Structure Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Cross-Border Electricity Trade: A Complex Network Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5797
Author(s):  
Yue Pu ◽  
Yunting Li ◽  
Yingzi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Electricity Trade ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
The Common

Electricity is one of the most widely used forms of energy. However, environmental pollution from electricity generation and the mismatch between electricity supply and demand have long been bothering economies across the world. Under this background, cross-border electricity trade provides a new direction for sustainable development. Based on the complex network approach, this paper aims to explore the structural characteristics and evolution of cross-border electricity trade networks and to figure out the factors influencing the formation of the network by using the more advanced network analysis method—ERGM. The results show that: (1) The scale of the electricity trade network is expanding, but there are still many economies not involved. (2) The centrality of the network shifts from west to east. The level of internal electricity interconnection is high in Europe, and Asian countries’ coordination role in cross-border electricity trade networks is enhanced. (3) Cross-border electricity trade helps to reduce CO2 emissions, achieve renewable energy transformation, and reduce power supply and demand mismatch. Large gaps in GDP, electricity prices, industrial structure, geographical distance and institutional distance between economies are not conducive to form the cross-border trade network, while the common language is on the contrary.

Shuttle Trade across Russia’s Borders with the Baltic States and Poland: Between Tolerance and Suppression

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-908
Author(s):  
Serghei Golunov
Keyword(s):  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Efficient Control ◽  
Borderland Communities ◽  
Cigarette Smuggling ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
And Control ◽  
Haul Truck

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of borderland shuttle trade across Russia’s borders with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. I argue that borderland shuttle trade is more sustainable in comparison with long-haul shuttle trade, as the former gives entrepreneurs more flexibility, involves fewer transaction costs, and can rely on the extensive support of borderland communities. At the same time, it has some specific vulnerabilities, and its susceptibility to customs control and reliance on overloaded border crossing infrastructure are among the most important. Contrary to beliefs about contemporary states’ inability to exercise efficient control over informal cross-border flows in the age of globalization, this research demonstrates that over the course of time, states may be at least partially successful in suppressing informal cross-border trade. Ultimately, cross-border shuttle trade has proven to be vulnerable to more and more targeted restrictions and control practices. Still, it has also proven to be highly resistant to governmental crackdown in various ways, such as buying fuel from long-haul truck drivers or switching to trade in non-excisable goods or to low-penalty cigarette smuggling. The latter practice illustrates that shuttle trade is only part of the flexible informal cross-border economy and that it can be transformed into low-penalty smuggling when needed.

Borderlands and border narratives: a longitudinal study of challenges and opportunities for local traders shaped by the Sino-Vietnamese border

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Turner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Border Narratives ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractIn this article I examine the relevance of utilizing a ‘Zomia-like’ approach to interpreting upland livelihoods in the China–Vietnam borderlands, rather than the more commonly employed nation-state lens. I explore the challenges and opportunities presented by the international borderline between the provinces of Yúnnán, southwest China, and Lào Cai, northern Vietnam, for local populations, namely ethnic minorities Kinh (lowland Vietnamese) and Han Chinese. Investigating the creation and solidification of this borderline and border space, I undertake a historical and contemporary analysis of cross-border trade networks. This focuses on two time periods in which global–local linkages have been especially important in directly shaping border negotiations: the French colonial period and the contemporary economic reform era. Present-day border narratives collected in both countries during ethnographic fieldwork with local traders managing important highland commodities shed light on the means by which the borderline and borderland spaces are continuing to shape both prospects and constraints.

Working at the Crossroads: A Guide for Border Crossing

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mckiernan-González
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
Boyle Heights ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the impact of George J. Sánchez’s keynote address “Working at the Crossroads” in making collaborative cross-border projects more academically legitimate in American studies and associated disciplines. The keynote and his ongoing administrative labor model the power of public collaborative work to shift research narratives. “Working at the Crossroads” demonstrated how historians can be involved—as historians—in a variety of social movements, and pointed to the ways these interactions can, and maybe should, shape research trajectories. It provided a key blueprint and key examples for doing historically informed Latina/o studies scholarship with people working outside the university. Judging by the success of Sánchez’s work with Boyle Heights and East LA, projects need to establish multiple entry points, reward participants at all levels, and connect people across generations.I then discuss how I sought to emulate George Sánchez’s proposals in my own work through partnering with labor organizations, developing biographical public art projects with students, and archiving social and cultural histories. His keynote address made a back-and-forth movement between home communities and academic labor seem easy and professionally rewarding as well as politically necessary, especially in public universities. 

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