Our team at the Association for Bordelands Studies. Third World Conference, Eilat Campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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From 11 to 18 February 2023, our team participated in the Third World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS), hosted by the Research Chair in Geopolitics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Eilat Campus), in collaboration with the Borders in Globalisation Project (BIG).
We contributed to the panel:
Social Policies and Welfare for Children and Women in European Borderlands
Chair: Machteld Venken, University of Luxembourg
The panel explored how welfare policies and social practices concerning children and women have historically shaped and challenged borderlands across Europe. The presentations addressed questions of national belonging, social inclusion, gendered vulnerabilities, and the impact of welfare provision on border-making processes.
Panel Presentations:
- When Social Welfare Became a Bordering Practice: Marking New National Frontiers in the Upper Adriatic Borderland: Elena d’Aosta’s Opera Pattriotica di Assistenza all‘Italia Redenta, 1919–1950
Laura Downs, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute - Transcending National Borders by Means of Educational Practice: The Children’s Castle in Luxembourg
Federica Moretti, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute - Boundary Making and Bordering Practices in Social Provision to Children in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland, 1944–1990s
Dominika Gruziel, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute - Making and Breaking Socialist Welfare from Below: Narratives of Lviv Female Workers
Iryna Sklokina, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute - Gender and Border Vulnerabilities: Belgian Women Workers in Northern France (1900–1950s)
Claudine Marissal, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute
👉 For more information about the conference: ABS Third World Conference Website