Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history  of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements  of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is  interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent  and temporary movements, distance and local border traffic, borderland  fortifications, penalties for borderland offences, and also restrictions  of free movement, even inside a given country. Based on archival  sources from Hungary and the Czech Republic, extensive literature and  more than two decades of research, the author distinguishes between two  basic border regimes: the restrictive eastern and the permissive western  systems, and a transitional zone between them. The historical  development of these regimes is discussed in the framework of waves of  globalisation and territorialisation

Border Regimes in Twentieth  Century Europe offers the first-ever systematic comparison of European  border regimes for students, scholars, and any readers who are  interested in travel history, border studies, globalisation, area  studies and 20th century Europe, including everyday history. By  presenting their different historical experiences, the book contributes  to a better understanding between old and new member states of the  European Union, as well as between member and non-member states