Von Plexiglas, Neunsitzern und Grenzzäunen – Überlegungen zu Konstellationen von Grenzen und Mobilität in Bulgarien im Kontext der Schengen-Diskussion
On Plexiglas, 9-Seaters and Border Fences – Reflections on the Constellation of Borders and Mobility in Bulgaria in the Context of the Schengen Discussion

Summary/Abstract: Even after almost sixteen years of membership in the EU, Bulgaria is still not part of the Schengen area. The governments of the Netherlands and Austria in particular continue to have reservations about Bulgaria’s “border regime” at its part of the EU‘s external borders. Both states voted against Bulgaria’s – and also Romania’s – admission to the „Schengen area“. But what does „Schengen“ stand for? What experiences of the people in Bulgaria with regard to mobility within the EU are being conveyed in the debate about Schengen? In order to assess this, it is necessary to look back at the last three decades since the beginning of the social and political transformation. Here with the focus on the changing constellations of mobility and borders. This is done in three small picture fragments each, in order to illustrate, to a certain extent, the multidimensionality of experiences and ideas of movement and its borders.

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