ABSTRACT
As was demonstrated in Chapter 2, immigration problems are of key importance for modern border studies. From the postmodernist point of view, migration is a flow that erodes traditional borders and creates new ones that are more flexible and mobile. Constructivists pay special attention to virtual borders between the identities of one’s own group and the Other. Finally, critical border studies focuses on dominance, marginalization, the inclusion of the Other in the ordered space or its exclusion from this spatial order. These approaches are definitely useful for understanding problems caused by trans-border migration, but they leave unanswered the questions of the realistic ways in which they might be solved, and how to take into simultaneous and balanced consideration the interests of both influential gatekeepers and law-abiding border crossers.
