ABSTRACT
It is often easier to identify ways in which scholars, who come from all social science and humanities disciplines, differ in their theoretical and methodological approaches to borders, boundaries and frontiers than it is to identify that which draws them together as practitioners of border studies. Most, if not all border scholars are aware that international borders act simultaneously as bridges and barriers to movement, communication and understanding. It is clear that all border studies involve in some measure the recognition and analysis of territory (including space and place) and people (including identities, culture, and society). But movement and mobility, bridges and barriers, territory and identity, are just starting points in a very wide range of perspectives on how geography and humans intersect at the margins of other social, political, economic and cultural entities.
