Why read Border Porosities?

Book cover of Border Porosities: Movements of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans

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This innovative book documents border porosities that have developed and persisted between Greece and North Macedonia over different temporalities and at different localities. By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, Dimova argues that similar to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Border Porosities as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Stanton Wortham

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I love how this book documents the many ways in which borders are not nearly as solid as we typically imagine. We tend to think about how migrants move across borders, and they do, but the book traces how people, ideas, and things have moved back and forth between Greece and north Macedonia over the past century.

I was drawn in by the compelling stories of how less dramatic movements of this kind have transformed individuals and societies on both sides of the border.

From Stanton's list on complex, hopeful stories about migration.