The project "Border Blogs" brings together the blogs of migrants and experts in an attempt to explore the changes which will take place as the Schengen area expands, both at the external edges of the European Union and in regards to the changing experience of crossing borders.

We hope that the blogs and related articles published on migrationonline.cz will start to answer some of the following questions: how does the extended dissolution of internal EU border controls effect the situation at the outer edge of the European border? What is the situation for those who have to regularly travel across this border? What will it mean to get a Schengen visa at the Polish or Czech consulates? How does the experience of EU migrants differ from those coming from outside the European Union? Will the extension of Schengen and possible changes at the eastern border affect the practice in regards to border controls at the southern borders? What changes will take place (if any) in how these southern borders will be controlled over the coming months? How does the conflict between, on one hand security, and on the other good neighbourhood economic social and cultural relations, translate for the people crossing the Eastern European border?

These blogs were realised with the support of the European Commission as part of the “The Campaign in Support of the Equal Opportunities for All in the Czech Republic” as they aim to detail the different discriminatory practices found when crossing international borders throughout Europe and compare them with the Czech case in the hope to analyse good a bad practices and search for solutions.

This project further is realised with support from the European Cultural Foundation (www.eurocult.org) as part of the wider project "Not About Us Without Us" which explores migration at the edge of the European Union through a number of scientific and artistic means (You can find out more about the project here.)