Social politics in European borderlands: A comparative and transnational study, 1870s-1990s

Project Information

SOCIOBORD

Grant agreement ID: 882549

DOI

10.3030/882549

Project closed

EC signature date 8 June 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 682,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 682,00

Coordinated by

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)

Author(s): Machteld Venken
Published in: Childhood, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 38-55, ISSN 0907-5682
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09075682241295455

When social provision became a bordering practice: The association ‘Assistance to Redeemed Italy’ and children’s welfare in Italy’s northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939

Author(s): Laura Lee Downs
Published in: Childhood, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 20-37, ISSN 0907-5682
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09075682241295549

Vanishing points and moving targets: Child welfare recipients in the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands at the dawn of communist Poland (1944-1949)

Author(s): Dominika Gruziel
Published in: Childhood, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 56-78, ISSN 0907-5682
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09075682241299067

Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg

Author(s): Federica Moretti, Machteld Venken
Published in: Childhood, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 79-97, ISSN 0907-5682
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09075682241297164

War Disability and Welfare State in the Eastern Polish Borderlands (1918–1939)

Author(s): Oksana Vynnyk
Published in: European History Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0265-6914
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/02656914261468173

War Veterans and Social Welfare in the New Soviet Borderlands (Lviv oblast, Ukrainian SSR, 1944–48)

Author(s): Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Published in: European History Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0265-6914
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/02656914261467666

Biographies of War and Welfare in Tito's Yugoslavia: SUBNOR's Invalid Commission in the Croatian Socialist Republic, 1961–1986

Author(s): John Paul Newman
Published in: European History Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0265-6914
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/02656914261483915

War veterans, minorities and crisis points in Yugoslav welfare

Author(s): John Paul Newman, Karolina Lendák-Kabók
Published in: European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 310-329, ISSN 1350-7486
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2024.2315600

When German Soldiers Became Belgian Veterans: A Cross-Border Mixed Economy of Veteran Welfare After the First World War

Author(s): Machteld Venken
Published in: European History Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0265-6914
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/02656914261481338

Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare

Author(s): Dominika Gruziel, Machteld Venken
Published in: Childhood, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 3-19, ISSN 0907-5682
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09075682241296586

“To Fan the Flames of Italianness:” Social Welfare and the Politics of Assimilation in Italy’s Northeastern Borderlands, 1919-1940

Author(s): Laura Lee Downs
Published in: Histoire Politique, Issue 59, 2026, ISSN 1954-3670
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/16jkx

Undoing state borders one poor person at a time: Roman Catholic charitable sociability in the borderland province of Posen of the early twentieth-century German Empire

Author(s): Dominika Gruziel
Published in: European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2026, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 1350-7486
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2026.2719506

Protéger les ouvriers belges du Nord de la France, de la fin du XIX e  siècle aux années 1950

Author(s): Claudine Marissal
Published in: Revue d'histoire de la protection sociale, Issue N° 16, 2024, Page(s) 76-97, ISSN 1969-9123
Publisher: CAIRN
DOI: 10.3917/rhps.016.0076

Negotiating Veterans’ Welfare in the North Adriatic Borderlands, 1960s–1980s

Author(s): Tina Filipović
Published in: European History Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0265-6914
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/02656914261468175

Financial Compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany for <i>Wehrmacht</i> Soldiers from Luxembourg, Alsace-Moselle and Eupen-Malmedy

Author(s): Christoph Brüll
Published in: European History Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0265-6914
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/02656914261479130

Participation and Volunteering in Liberal and Socialist Democracies: Female Volunteer Firefighters in the Central European Borderlands during the Cold War

Author(s): Ana Kladnik
Published in: Contemporary European History, Issue 35, 2026, ISSN 0960-7773
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0960777326101829