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Abstract: „Seit über 20 Jahren sammelt und analysiert die Interregionale Arbeitsmarktbeobachtungsstelle (IBA·OIE) im Auftrag der politischen Verantwortlichen der Großregion vergleichbare und interpretierbare Daten über den Arbeitsmarkt auf dem Gebiet der Großregion und liefert damit die Grundlage für struktur- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Entscheidungen in der Großregion. Durch die lange und kontinuierliche Beobachtung gelingt es, ein deutliches Bild der Pendlerbewegungen und ihrer Profile im Kooperationsraum der Großregion zu zeichnen und diese engen Verflechtungen sichtbar zu machen. Allerdings werden auch die Unterschiede deutlich, die kulturell bedingt, aber auch durch die heterogenen Wirtschaftsstrukturen der Teilregionen gewachsen sind. Als Grundlage dienen zunächst die Daten der europäischen Statistikbehörde Eurostat, die in harmonisierter Form vorliegen und dadurch im grenzüberschreitenden Kontext leicht vergleichbar sind. Für die detaillierteren Indikatoren auf der Ebene der Großregion werden zudem die Daten der jeweiligen statistischen Ämter und anderer Datenproduzenten aus den Teilregionen herangezogen. Aufgrund unterschiedlicher Hintergründe und Erhebungsmethoden bedürfen die Zahlen einer deutlichen Kontextualisierung und meist einer Harmonisierung. Insbesondere die Daten zu den Grenzgängerströmen stammen aus unterschiedlichen Datenquellen, die einer Harmonisierung auf großregionaler Ebene bedürfen.“

Abstract: „This article explores the dynamics of atypical cross-border workers in the Greater Region, that is to say, those who reside in a neighbouring country while maintaining employment in Luxembourg. Before highlighting the housing access inequalities that this residential dynamic entails, the analysis examines housing policies in Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg to better understand the disparities that intensify pressure on regional housing markets. Recent and historical data on the profiles of atypical cross-border workers are presented, along with testimonies from former residents of Luxembourg who have left the country. The study sheds light on how border housing markets respond to this growing demand, sometimes to the detriment of long-standing residents. It concludes by emphasising the need for a cross-border housing observatory to co-ordinate data collection and assess emerging inequalities, including land pressures and residential exclusion in border areas, calling for more harmonised governance to address these challenges.“

Abstract: „Within the European Union, the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux is the region most impacted by cross-border work. Luxembourg is attracting an increasing number of workers from neighboring countries, mainly from France. This article examines how the practice of cross-border work has evolved over the last sixty years and what the territorial issues are. Rarely taken into account over a long period, the historical dimension is indeed necessary to understand the roots of the phenomenon, its structuring and diversification. The degree of permeability of borders and the reasons for crossing them have changed over time. This analysis provides an overview of cross-border work, focusing on Luxembourg as the main country of employment and Lorraine as the main place of residence for cross-border workers. Contextual factors and different processes - historical, economic, social and political - are important and have encouraged the development of cross-border work in the Greater Region: they have contributed to its institutionalization and to the structuring of the phenomenon. Finally, borders are questioned in the light of emerging territorial challenges, such as labour shortages, the ageing of the population and the resulting tensions pertaining to cross-border work.“

Abstract: „With its 267,300 cross-border workers in 2022, the Greater Region of SaarLorLux is often presented as a model of European integration. Borders are becoming less and less perceptible, and are disappearing for commuters travelling from one country to another. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the reappearance of borders that were thought to have been forgotten. It has to be said that many border-related issues have come to the fore in recent years, all the more so because of the many challenges and tensions as well as the growing number of cross-border workers. The question of inequalities is central in this context of a cross-border labour market with strongly interwoven components.“

„In the former districts of Eupen and Malmedy, present-day East-Belgians, in particular academic and socio-political elites, draw their collective identity, amongst others, from the historical injustices inflicted upon them ever since the adoption of the Treaty of Versailles. The transfer of sovereignty from Germany to Belgium was then the subject of a popular consultation organised by the transitional Belgian authorities in those territories. Favouring national over popular sovereignty, those authorities de facto undermined the freedom of choice and imposed their annexation to Belgium which the League of Nations, despite criticisms, consecutively endorsed. Much has been said about this petite farce belge yet not from a legal point of view. Thus, this article sheds a different light on the historical accounts of those events which are instrumentalised to construct the contemporary collective identity of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.“

„Although the children whose rural homelands transitioned from German to Belgian state sovereignty following the First World War were not the typical demographic targeted for preventive air treatments against tuberculosis, they were overrepresented in treatment camps in both Belgium and Germany. Nation-state representatives provided public and private (although partly state subsidized) treatment camps to restore the physical vitality, ethical integrity, and national allegiances of the minors. The parallel competitive offer took the form of a cross-border mixed economy of child welfare. Borderland residents either opportunistically supported the Belgian or German initiatives, or provided their own alternatives to protect their children from indoctrination.“

Abstract: „This article investigates the capacities of children to participate actively in their lives in the Belgian-German borderlands in the time period between World War I and World War II. The article interprets a body of historical sources that has hitherto been left unexplored – namely, borderland child ego documents – with the help of insights from child studies and border studies. These ego documents unfold as borderland child heterotopias. Borderland child heterotopias include material places and creative linguistic loci established by or for those considered in crisis in relation to the rest of society based on their age within or outside child spaces of modernity. The borderland child heterotopias offer a unique gateway to borderland children’s past imaginations for a better world.“

„In this contribution, we discuss how the East Belgian authors Hannes Anderer, Freddy Derwahl and Leo Wintgens represent history, borders and multilingualism in their novels. These contemporary authors have understood that coming to terms with the past is an important aspect in developing a genuine East Belgian collective identity. Furthermore, the multiple borders (with Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and the co-existence of several languages in this region have become constitutive of collective self-understanding, also with regard to the construction of a region-specific cultural memory. Finally, we show the narrative strategies used in the novels Unterwegs zu Melusine (2006), Bosch in Belgien (2006) and Wege aus Sümpfen. Roman einer Grenzlandschaft Teil I (2001) and Teil II (2006) in order to bring to bear the relation between minority and majority culture by recurring to imagology.“