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  1. Sep 2020
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    Tawada_Where_Europe_Begins_1988_OCR.pdf
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    1. subu_grace 02 Sep 2020
      But the important thing for me is traveling through Siberia:' The longer I spoke, the more unsure of mvself I became. He went to sit beside another passenger, le~ving me alone with the transparent word throug

      In the "On the Train" story, the author spoke of a passenger who talked about the importance of stating "where you are going to", not where you are from originally or where you are now. Also, the more she began to describe the "nothingness" of Siberia, the more difficult it became for her to conceptualize a land that is not her own. In fact, her very purpose for travelling seems to be based off an abstract idea of a destination.

    2. subu_grace 02 Sep 2020
      You needn't be afraid of them Wh . . en you see them, JUSt remember that you, too, like all other human bemgs, were once a monster in one of your previous lives Neither hate them nor do battle with them, just continu~ on your way. There is only one thing you must remember: when you are in the city where the Fire Bird lives, you must not drink a single drop of water:'

      Has anyone ever seen Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth"? This section reminds me of a specific scene where the fawn instructs Ofelia to journey into a "monster's" lair and he tells her she cannot touch the banquet that lies before her. Not to mention, she creates her own door to the lair using a piece of chalk (creating her own crossing). The importance of journeying to a new land but maintaining a non-presence evokes the same imagery as not drinking any water where the Fire-bird lives.

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  3. Aug 2020
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    Let Me Be a Refugee - Oxford Scholarship
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    1. subu_grace 26 Aug 2020
      States that sign on to the Convention and Protocolpledge not to return any asylum seekers to a county wheretheir “life or freedom would be threatened” (ConventionRelating to the Status of Refugees, Article 33). This principle(callednon-refoulement, ornon-return) is the central featureof international refugee law, obligating nations to willinglysuspend their sovereignty and offer protection to people withno other claim to be present in their territory

      In addition to the Dublin Act, this inconveniences countries like Italy and Greece to a far higher degree. Asylum seekers must 1)on go the determination process in these countries where they land first and 2) cannot be turned away and will stay there despite internal protesting

    2. subu_grace 26 Aug 2020
      plenipotentiaries

      a person, especially a diplomat, invested with the full power of independent action on behalf of their government, typically in a foreign country.

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    UTF-8''Balibar_The%20Borders%20of%20Europe_1998_OCR%20Marked.pdf
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    2. subu_grace 23 Aug 2020
      This in fact means that borders are no longer the shores of politics, but have indeed become-perhaps by way of the police, given that every border patrol is today an organ of "internal security"-objects or, let us say more precisely, things within the space of the political itself.

      Israeli-Palestine conflict. Rather than a method to separate politics, it has become the object of politics itself.

    4. subu_grace 23 Aug 2020
      Maastricht Treaty

      The international agreement (1991/3) that is responsible for creating the supranational institution, The European Union (from the European community).

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    1. subu_grace 23 Aug 2020
      Such conceptswould be the fundamental plank of a critical border studies: that is to say, aborder studies capable of illuminating the changing reality of borders; deter-mining the associations between that and our broader spatial and govern-mental imaginaries; subjecting border-making practices to critical scrutiny;evaluating the ethical and political aspects of border regimes and control;and thus, finally, setting the study of ‘the border’, its cognates, and border-studies own research agenda in a self-critical light.

      A "border studies" practice could become a highly useful subset of international law-making. How could "self-scrutiny" be reflected on and manifested by world powers, that had historically, lacked true ethical calculation?

    2. subu_grace 23 Aug 2020
      Instead, they are increas-ingly ephemeral and/or impalpable: electronic, non-visible, and located inzones that defy a straightforwardly territorial logic.

      Firewalls or domain restricted content come to mind. Intellectual property/security and international relations, more than ever, are intertwined in cases such as China-US disputes. Technology that is pirated by Chinese-companies can be re branded and sold on an exclusive markets due to their censorship state.

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