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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.“

Abstract: „Borders are often studied as sites of struggle, power relations and political friction, but they have also been places of human life, exchange and circulation. This article examines smuggling between Luxembourg and France during the interwar period, exploring often-overlooked aspects of this border region’s socio-economic fabric, such as the role of women and children, hardships in times of economic downturn, foodstuffs, consumption patterns and family relations across these two countries. Smuggling demonstrates how the Franco-Luxembourg border creates alternative economies and becomes a resource for individuals living in this mining and industrial basin.“

Abstract: „Die euregionalen Partner in der Euregio Maas-Rhein, am Dreiländereck Deutschland/Niederlande/Belgien, haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten viel Erfahrung gesammelt beim Aufbau von Netzwerken im Bereich der öffentlichen Dienstleistungen. Der Artikel stellt wesentliche Netzwerke vor, wobei ausführlicher eingegangen wird auf die Entwicklungen im Bereich der Notfallrettung und der Gesundheitsversorgung, des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs und der Wohnungsmarktpolitik.“

„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: „Der Beitrag beleuchtet Ansätze der grenzüberschreitenden Daseinsvorsorge in der Region SaarLorLux zwischen Deutschland, Frankreich und Luxemburg. Zwar kann dort auf eine jahrzehntelange gewachsene Zusammenarbeit über nationale Grenzen hinweg zurückgeblickt werden, doch ergeben sich neben Chancen bis heute auch Hürden bei der Vernetzung von Daseinsvorsorgeangeboten, wie anhand öffentlicher Verkehrsinfrastrukturen, medizinischer Angebote und Energieversorgung illustriert wird. Erfahrungen aus der Region SaarLorLux können für den Vergleich mit dem deutsch-polnischen Verflechtungsraum und dortiger Daseinsvorsorge produktiv gemacht werden, wie der Artikel abschließend zeigt.“

Aus den Verlagsangaben: „1548 schloss Kaiser Karl V. mit den Ständen des Heiligen Römischen Reichs den Burgundischen Vertrag. Dieser Vertrag und die nachfolgende Entwicklung führten zur weitgehenden Lösung der burgundischen Erblande der Habsburger, darunter das Herzogtum Luxemburg, vom Reich. Theodor Baums behandelt zunächst die Stellung des Herzogtums Luxemburgs als Reichslehen, die Zuständigkeit des Reichskammergerichts auch für die burgundischen Erblande und sodann Inhalt und Bedeutung des Burgundischen Vertrags. Die durch den Vertrag bewirkte Abspaltung der Erblande vom Reich machte neben anderem die Entwicklung von Normen für die „internationale“ Gerichtszuständigkeit erforderlich. Im zweiten Teil befasst sich die Untersuchung mit der durch den Burgundischen Vertrag ausgelösten Entfaltung dieser frühen Form zwischenstaatlicher Kooperation bei grenzüberschreitenden Konflikten. Hierfür werden die Akten des Reichskammergerichts zu einschlägigen Streitigkeiten mit Bezug zum Herzogtum Luxemburg ausgewertet.“

Abstract: „This article deals with border-crossing and the experiences of “temporal otherness” of residential migrants who move their home from Luxembourg to the German side of the River Moselle. Research on temporal borders is highly influenced by a particular spatio-political relation: the West creating its underdeveloped other and coping with this other by controlling border-crossing, which in turn results in maintaining the idea of the other’s temporal remoteness. The Luxembourgish–German border region offers a complement to this perspective; here, one encounters migrants who move in the opposite temporal direction and appreciate certain forms of “being behind” in their new place of residence. These migrants must cope with divergences, i.e., with the fact that economic and socio-cultural conditions within their new socio-spatial universe, the cross-border region, have evolved differently. This article argues that the analysis of migrants’ memories is illuminating with respect to the question of the moral legitimacy of moving, and thus regarding the conception and everyday construction of cross-border communities. It sheds light on the fact that borderland research—by focusing on national differences and related conceptions of cross-border mobility and exchange—tends to ignore borderlanders’ notions of (regional) unity and related claims for convergence.“

Aus dem Verlagstext: „1839 brachte der niederländische Textilkaufmann Willem Stroink aus Enschede den ersten Schnellschützen nach Nordhorn. In einem Pferdestall hinter der Schankwirtschaft van Bentheim in der Hauptstraße gründete er die erste Schnellschützenweberei Nordhorns – der Startschuss für die Industrialisierung der Textilindustrie der Grafschaft Bentheim. Die Geschichte der Grafschafter Textilindustrie ist nur mit Blick auf den niederländischen Unternehmergeist und die grenzüberschreitenden familiären und geschäftlichen Vernetzungen dies- und jenseits der Grenze zu verstehen. Zahlreiche deutsche und niederländische Interviewpartner:innen haben dem Stadtmuseum Nordhorn für diese Projekt von ihrem Arbeitsalltag in der Grafschafter Textilindustrie berichtet. Ihre Geschichten stellen Buch und Sonderausstellung zum ersten Mal der Öffentlichkeit vor.“