Race and Identity across American Borders

STORK - Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed. European Union

STORK is a co funded European Commission Large Scale Pilot programme under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme. The policy framework most relevant to STORK is the “i2010 – A European Society for growth and employment” initiative, which has classified eID interoperability as a key factor for economic growth and employment in the EU. STORK is possibly the largest eID project in Europe in...

Trading across borders

The cost of living is high in Juba, the capital of the world’s youngest nation, the Republic of South Sudan.1 Decades of conflict have wiped out basic infrastructure and destroyed what production capacity it once had. So most goods—including food, basic inputs and construction materials—must be imported. That can be costly and slow. An entrepreneur in Juba would have to spend $9,429 to import a...

Trust across borders

Received: 17 October 2005 Accepted: 17 October 2005 Online publication date: 15 December 2005 Abstract We make the case for fresh approaches to examine the role of trust in international collaborations, based on the idea that not only do the levels of trust differ across international borders but also both the nature of trust and the institutional and cultural support for trust can vary across ...

Boring European Borders?! Integration and Mobility across Borders

This paper discusses the apparent stubbornness of immobility that exists in the European Union. It starts from the observation that the apparent abolishing of borders has not led to the supposed increase in crossborder interaction. Two concepts are introduced, indifference and unfamiliarity, this way trying to understand border effects, especially in Europe and the European Union. From this it ...

Redefining Borders and Identity: Ethnic Dress of the Lolo/Yi Across the Vietnam-ChinaBorder