Introduction: The name dispute and the Prespa Agreement -- Railway porosity across the border : from Ottoman railway lines to contemporary migrant transportation -- Desirous borders and consumer porosities : beauty, entertainment, and gambling in the EU periphery -- The sedimentary porosity of tourism, ownership, and child refugees -- Porosity of environmental activism and transnational mining companies : struggles against open-pit mines on the border -- Tidal porosity : displaced borders in Skopje and the colorful revolution -- Conclusion: Porous trails at the border
Summary
By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage