CROSS-BORDER MOBILITY: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF SHORT-DISTANCE TRANSBOUNDARY MIGRATION IN GERMANY.

虽然短距离跨境通勤与长距离移徙不同，但就时间性和地理邻近性而言，它是一种多方面的循环流动，在民族国家之间实施，因此在处理双重框架、远距离拥有家庭、建立社交网络和组织日常生活实践方面具有相似的模式。跨境通勤也是一个复杂的现象，因为存在区域差异，通勤者的通勤动机和决定多种多样，其社会经济和政治影响也多种多样。然而，这种现象的复杂性在以前的研究中没有得到充分的探讨，这是因为他们的重点局限于在单一边境地区实行的独特形式的跨境通勤。本研究旨在通过在德国四个边境地区进行定性和比较实地研究来填补文献中的这一空白，以了解跨境流动的潜在转型社会和空间影响。

Although short-distance cross-border commuting is different than long-distance migration, in terms of temporality and geographical proximity, it is a multifaceted circular mobility, practiced across nation states and therefore has similar patterns of dealing with dual frames, having a family at a distance, establishing social networks, and the organization of daily life practices. Cross-border commuting is also a complex phenomenon in terms of regional differences, variety of commuters’ motivations and decisions for commuting, and diverse in its socio-economic and political impacts. However, this complexity of the phenomenon is under-explored in previous researches, as a result of limiting their focus with a unique form of cross-border commuting practiced in a single border region. This research aims at filling this gap in the literature by conducting a qualitative and a comparative field study in four German border regions to understand the potential transformational social and spatial effects of cross-border mobilit(ies).