Do Good Fences Make Friendly Neighbors?Inclusion And Exclusion In And On The Borders Of Europe

Editors' preface

This book compiles the papers presented at the conference „INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN AND ON THE BORDERS OF EUROPE,“ jointly organized by the Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and World Learning/SIT Study Abroad, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, on June 6-8, 2008 in Portoroz, Slovenia.What made the conference unique was the diverse geographical perspectives shared and debated, ranging from Morocco to France to the Czech Republic to Slovenia to Kosovo to Russia.

The presentations by scholars, graduate students, and action researchers expanded the debates on EU policy on migration, asylum, border regimes, trafficking in human beings, friendly neighborhood policies, cultural diversity and Islam. These policies were contrasted with researched cases of inclusion/exclusion regimes inside the EU, to enable an analytical approach to the idea of „civil power Europe“ as a player in human rights and democratic values in the globalized world.

This book will be appropriate for undergraduate courses and action researchers on European policy, as well as for libraries.Both co-sponsoring institutions combine action, research and education, and hope this book will spur readers to action in the policymaking sphere.

SIT/World Learning, based in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, runs education and development programs around the world that help people, institutions, and communities to develop the concern, the knowledge, and the commitment to create a more peaceful and just world.

The Peace Institute/Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, integrates academic work with concrete social and political engagement through action research studies and projects on topic such as human rights, media studies, the EU, racism, migration, gender studies, cultural studies, and equal opportunity politics in Central and Eastern Europe.

The editors would like to acknowledge the conference organizing staff of the Peace Institute, copyeditor Jessica Bashford of SIT/World Learning, Russian translator Julia Fein, and all the participants in the conference.

Editors: Jill Benderly,

Lev Kreft,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Inclusion and Exclusion in and on the Borders of Europe: Julie Mostov,USA

2. Migration and Immigration Policy(7)

  • Lahcen Haddad, Morocco: Beyond the Idea of “Fortress Europe” or the Challenges of Good Neighbourhood and Integration Policies
  • Selma Muhič Dizdarevič, Czech Republic: Trends in the Development of Immigration and Integration Policies in the European Union and the Czech Republic: Towards a Common Policy
  • Aldo Milohnić, Slovenia: From Trojan to Schengen Horses: 'The Inside Story'
  • Goran Lukič, Mirsad Begić,Slovenia: Migrant Workers. What About Them?
  • Sanja Cukut Krilić, Slovenia: Female Migrants At And Within The ‘European Fortress’ (Women From The Former Soviet Union in Slovenia)
  • Veronika Bajt and Mojca Pajnik, Slovenia: Understanding Migrant Women’s Labour: Intermeshing Structure and Agency

3. Islam and Cultural Diversity(4)

  • Marie-Claude Lutrand, France: Young French Muslim Females in „Laic“ Context: A Process of Co-Cultural Creativity
  • Ana Frank, Slovenia: Rethinking European Master Narratives in Contemporary Attitudes Towards ‘Cultured’ (Minority) Groups, with a Gendered Perspective
  • Omar Nahas, Belgium: Reading the Koran in Contemporary Western Context
  • Andreja Prebil, Slovenia,Progressive Interpretation of the Koran

4. Nation States and Minorities (4)

  • Tanja Petrović, Slovenia: “Nesting Colonialisms”: Austria, Slovenia, and Discourses on the Western Balkans in the Context of the EU Enlargement
  • Adriana Kabashi, Kosovo: At the Door of Europe
  • Nora Ahmetaj, Kosovo: Transformation and Statebuilding as Part of the Political Domain

5. Border Regimes(4)

  • Orli Fridman, Israel, & Ziad M. Abu-Rish, USA: (Re)Centring Europe: Israeli and Palestinian Narratives in the Shadow of Europe
  • Lev Kreft, Slovenia: The Mediterreanean and the Art World
  • Jill Benderly, Croatia: Strategies Against Trafficking from Balkans into EU: Enforcing Border Regimes or Increasing Women's Human and Economic Security?
  • Mikhail Rozhanskij, Russia: Russia on the Path to Europe: the Siberian Barrier

Author bios