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Elastic Migration: The Case Of Dutch Short‐Distance Transmigrants In Belgian And German Borderlands

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  • HENK VAN HOUTUM
  • RUBEN GIELIS

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Along the Dutch‐Belgian and Dutch‐German border a new and interesting kind of transmigration is developing, that is migration over only a few kilometres across the border. The main characteristic of these Dutch short‐distance transmigrants is that they have their houses in Belgium/Germany, but their social and working life still takes place in the Netherlands. Their transmigration is hence very elastic. This elasticity invokes the interesting question: what kind of (trans)national identity these Dutch are displaying and to what extent the Dutch desire to be and/or are socially provoked to be integrated in the neighbouring Belgian/German society. These cross‐border spaces in which the short‐distance migrants have their residences could very well be interesting micro‐scale laboratories of the future of the nation‐state in the European Union.

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  • Henk Van Houtum & Ruben Gielis, 2006. "Elastic Migration: The Case Of Dutch Short‐Distance Transmigrants In Belgian And German Borderlands," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 97(2), pages 195-202, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:97:y:2006:i:2:p:195-202
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2006.00512.x
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