- Published
- 23 June 2021
- Journal article
The impact of the Corona crisis on borderland living in the Danish-German border region with a special focus on the two national minorities
- Authors
- Source
- National Identities
Abstract
In 2020, the Sars-CoV-2 (also known as the COVID-19/Coronavirus) crisis resulted in the closure of most of Europe’s borders, both external and internal. What consequences does this have for border regions as living spaces? This article uses the Danish- German border region as an example for the complex impact of the Sars-CoV-2 crisis on a European borderland. A special focus is placed on the region’s reciprocal national minorities on either side of the border. This article shows that these groups have been most impacted by the nation state measures of restricting and controlling access across the border, as this has reduced their opportunities of kin-state contact and interaction.
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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Cite as
Tarvet, R. & Klatt, M. 2021, 'The impact of the Corona crisis on borderland living in the Danish-German border region with a special focus on the two national minorities', National Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2021.1938522