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from long distance migration in that it creates situations where people are µVOHHSLQJDEURDGEXWZRUNLQJDWKRPH¶%DORJK7KHVLQJXODULW\RIWKLV mobility lies in the fact that the search for a new home induces a long-term change of legal status – from national to foreign resident. When they settle on the other side of the border, ‘cross border migrants’ experience new rules and norms. They develop new lifestyles in which they have to cross the border every GD\LQRUGHUWRPDLQWDLQWKHLUSUHYLRXVOLQNV5HVHDUFKRQ&%50KDVLQYHVWLJDWHG this tension between ‘being abroad’ and ‘being near home’ from the perspective of transmigration and border studies, and sometimes with attempts to link the WZRDSSURDFKHV*LHOLV%DORJK7KLVFKDSWHULVQRWVRPXFKDERXW KRZ SHRSOH H[SHULHQFH ERUGHUV DQG ERUGHU GH¿QLWLRQV WKDQ LW LV DERXW KRZ ERUGHUODQGV DUH VSHFL¿F FRQWH[WV WKDW UHYHDO VRFLDO WUHQGV , ZLOO GUDZ RQ WKHRUHWLFDOZRUNIURPXUEDQVRFLRORJ\*UDIPH\HUDQG$XWKLHUDQGWKH EUDQFK RI PLJUDWLRQ VWXGLHV WKDW ORRNV DW µOLIHVW\OH PLJUDWLRQV¶ %HQVRQ DQG 2¶5HLOO\ , DUJXH WKDW WKH\ R൵HU QHZ LQVLJKWV RQZKDW LV DW VWDNH IRU
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