Cross-border everyday lives on the Luxembourg border? An empirical approach: the example of cross-border commuters and residential migrants

Abstract

Luxembourg is characterized by phenomena of mobility that include cross-border commuters and residential migrants. While both groups have been mainly examined from a socioeconomic perspective, this paper adopts a sociocultural approach. We will focus on the question of the extent to which cross-border mobility in everyday life promotes cross-border lifeworlds. This will involve examining people’s social contacts at their place of work and/or place of residence as well as the spatial organization of practices of the everyday life of both groups. The paper gives insights into everyday lives at the EU’s internal borders, whose organization into nation states is subordinate and at the same time constitutive. Commuters and Spaces of the Border” (2012). His research area includes cultural border studies, transnational everyday lives, and spatial, identity, praxeological theories. and to her she Institute of and Planning geog- at Saarland Her research are migration and integration studies, especially in rural areas, as well as border studies. She holds a degree in geography and chemistry from Saarland University (2011) and a Ph.D. in Geography (2015). Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on migration patterns as well as the in-dividual integration processes of international migrants in rural areas.