Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cyprus’ 2004 accession to the European Union (EU) transformed the significance of the ‘Green Line’ – the United Nations (UN)-monitored buffer zone that has separated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since the island’s 1974 partition. Today, this zone serves as a de facto external EU border, dividing the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) from the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). This paper adopts a multiscalar approach to study the geopolitics of bordering along the Green Line with a focus on the (im)mobility of asylum seekers from Middle Eastern and African countries on the island. Drawing on policy, media, scholarly materials, fieldwork and interviews, we argue that the Green Line constitutes a ‘nested border’ of unevenly layered jurisdictional and governing practices by the UN, EU, RoC and TRNC. These overlapping border regimes create uncertainties, disjunctures and liminal encounters for migrants and reflect broader geopolitical developments that include and transcend Cyprus’ longstanding ethnic conflict.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it