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ISSN 2309-3455 (print) ISSN 2309-3471 (Online) Social Studies Vol. 9, No. 3, 2015 Sophia YAKHLEF • Goran BASIC • Malin ÅKERSTRÖM • Maria Ch. SIDIROPOULOU • Gómez ELÍAS • Carla COSSI • Ekaterina N. VASILEVA • Elena O. DANILOVA • Oludele Mayowa SOLAJA • Agim LEKA • Lediana XHAKOLLARI • Arben HOTI • Rando DEVOLE • Servet PELLUMBI • Lekë SOKOLI Studime Sociale Vëll. 9, Nr. 3, 2015 Author’s guide In general ISSN 2309-3455 (Print) ISSN 2309-3471 (Online) “Social Studies” is the official Journal of the Albanian Institute of Sociology (AIS). It is certified as scientific journal by the High Commission of the Assessment of Academic Titles, with decision No. 170, 20. 12. 2010. “Social Studies” is an International Journal. The articles can be written in English, Albanian, or other language (if the blind review is possible) How to submit an article? 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Buss, Loreta. 2010. “Childhood in Sociology and Society; the US Perspective”, Currant Sociology, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 355-350. © Copyright: author(s) of the articles For more details: Contact to the Secretary SOCIAL STUDIES Vol. 9, No. 3, 2015 INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR LEKË SOKOLI ASSOCIATE EDITOR SEJDIN CEKANI CHAIRMAN SERVET PËLLUMBI Albanian Institute of Sociology, Albania ALEKSANDRA ÅLUND University of Linköping, Sweden AIRI-ALINA ALLASTE Tallin University, Estonia ALI PAJAZITI South East European University, Tetovo Macedonia Balkan Sociological Forum (BSF) ALFRED UÇI Albanian Academy of Science, Albania BARBARA HEYNS New York University, SHBA BESNIK PULA Center for the Study of Social Organization Princeton University, USA DUSHAN JANJIC The Institute for Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia EGLANTINA GJERMENI Minister of Urban Development and Tourism, Albania; Albanian Institute of Sociology (AIS), Albania EGLANTINA DERVISHI Albanian University, Albania ENKELEIDA TAHIRAJ University College London, England FARUK AJETI University of Vienna, Austria GIOVANNA CAMPANI University of Florence, Italy HALA AWADA Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon ILIR GËDESHI Center for Economic and Social Studies, Albania IRENA NIKAJ Universitety Fan Noli, Korca, Albania ISHWAR MODI India International Institute of Social Science, India JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE University of California Santa Barbara, USA JAY WEINSTEIN Eastern Michigan University, USA JUDITH BLAU University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA KARL KASER University Karl Franzes of Graz, Austria KLARITA GËRXHANI University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands KLEA FANIKO University of Geneva, Switzerland KRISTO FRASHËRI Albanian Academy of Science, Albania LEDIA KASHAHU University Aleksander Moisiu, Durres-Albania LIQUN CAO Eastern Michigan University, USA MARK TIRTA Albanian academy of Science, Albania MARINA DALLA University of Athens, Greece MARTIN BERISHAJ University of Ljubljana, Slovenia MARSELA DAUTI University of Washington, USA PAJAZIT NUSHI Academy of Science and Arts, Kosovo ROLAND SEJKO “Bota shqiptare”, Roma, Italy NORA MALAJ Ministry of Education and Sport, Albania Albanian Sociological Association, Albania Tonin GJURAJ European University of Tirana, Albania SERGIOU BALTATESCU University of Oradea, Romania SUNAJ RAIMI State University of Tetovo, Macedonia SVETLA KOLEVEA Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Sofia, Bulgaria © Albanian Institute of Sociology / Instituti Shqiptar i Sociologjisë Design: Orest Muça Scientific Journal, certified by the Highest Scientific Committee of the Republic of Albania; Decision no. 170, date 20th of December 2010 Contacts / Kontakte: Rruga “Pjetër Bogdani”, Pall. 36/1, Tiranë – Shqipëri Mobile: ++355694067682; ++355692032731; E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; www.instituti-sociologjise.al; Contents: Sophia YAKHLEF, Protecting European Borders: Changing Border Police Goran BASIC & Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Area ......................................5 Malin ÅKERSTRÖM Maria Ch. SIDIROPOULOU Negotiating a diasporic identity: The jews in Thessaloniki .....................................................25 Gómez ELÍAS Social Figurations and Tourist Displacement & Carla COSSI in Argentina .....................................................................35 Ekaterina VASILEVA Migratory activity in social and economic & Elena DANILOVA space of the Volgograd region ..............................................45 Oludele Mayowa SOLAJA Nigeria’s Socio-economic Development in the Era of Mixed Migration ..........................................53 Agim LEKA The human migration in our global era; A philosophical reflection ....................................................69 Lediana XHAKOLLARI SELF-ESTEEM and academic stress among Shkodra & Arben HOTI University students ............................................................77 Rando DEVOLE L’immigrazione in Italia e il macigno di Sisifo ...................85 Servet PELLUMBI Political pluralism and Sociology in Albania .......................93 Lekë SOKOLI Transition and Social Problems in Albania; a comparative and empirical approach ...............................99 4 Call for papers Social Studies Vol. 8 No. 1 5 PROTECTING EUROPEAN BORDERS: CHANGING BORDER POLICE COOPERATION IN THE BALTIC SEA AREA Sophia YAKHLEF Lund University, Department of Sociology, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]; Goran BASIC Lund University, Department of Sociology, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]; Malin ÅKERSTRÖM Lund University, Department of Sociology, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]; ABSTRACT The recent influx of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe has drawn our attention towards the future of Schengen and European border politics. In 2014-2015 a European collaborative project called Turnstone (partly funded by the European commission) Goran BASIC is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. His research concerns fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina.He has written articles on the post-war society and carried out an evaluation of a project in the juvenile care system. Basic’s dissertation “When collaboration becomes a struggle. A sociological analysis of a project in the Swedish juvenile care” is based on ethnographic material. Currently analyzing the collaboration between border police and coastguard in the countries of Baltic region. Sophia YAKHLEF is a PhD student in sociology at Lund University, Sweden. She previously studied body image perception and cosmetic surgery and is currently engaged in completing her dissertation on cooperation, trust, and socialization between police and border authorities in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Malin ÅKERSTRÖM is Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on ethnographic studies of deviance and social control. She has published several books, including “Suspicious Gifts: Bribery, Morality, and Professional Ethics” (2014), “Betrayers and Betrayers”, and “Crooks and Squares”, as well as numerous articles on social control, corruption, policies for treatment of juvenile offenders, and the criminal lifestyle, among others. She is the Coordinator of Sociological Criminology at Lund University Social Studies 2015, 3 (9): 5-24 6 Protecting European Borders was implemented to increase control of European borders in the Baltic Sea area and to diminish trans-boundary criminality. The purpose of the project is also to increase cooperation between border, police and coast guard officers in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden. The officers argue that the abolition of internal borders and the implementation of the Schengen regime in the EU has led to increased efforts to control and monitor borderlands and border crossings. The border officers must rely on cooperation to perform their duties of border guarding and hence must change their methods of working. This is a qualitative study based on empirically gathered material such as field interviews and fieldwork observations at the different border agencies. The purpose of this study is to analyze how the staff of the different organizations defines successful collaboration and what collaboration obstacles they have identified during the implementation of the cooperation project. The findings suggest that the border officers re-negotiate spatial and cultural identities to make cooperation possible. The idea of common northern European historical identity is described as important for successful cooperation. At the same time, language and communication difficulties, differences in work practices and national legislation, differences in status and different areas