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The mobile border hypothesis highlights the idea that borders are more than demarcation lines dividing the territories of neatly bounded nation-states. As Étienne Balibar (2004) argues, borders and their various regimes increasingly disperse across different socio-political arenas and can no longer exclusively be connected to the physical limits of nation-state territoriality.
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Brambilla, C. (2015). Mobile Euro/African Borderscapes: Migrant Communities and Shifting Urban Margins. In: Szary, AL.A., Giraut, F. (eds) Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468857_8
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