Research-based teaching materials about the Danish-German border for use in Danish high schools. The purpose of the teaching materials is to foster informed in-class debate about the changing role of borders in Denmark and Europe in. Developed together with Grænseforeningen and Gunvor Vestergaard.
The conversation cards take their point of departure in the return of border fences and border control at the Danish-German border. In 2016, as a means of regulating the arrival of refugees, temporary border control was initiated. The border control has been renewed every six months ever since and is still in place as of 2023. In 2019, a wild boar fence was erected along the land border to prevent wild boars from carrying swine flu across the border. In 2020, COVID-restrictions sealed off the border, allowing only Danish passport holders and other closely affiliated citizens to cross the border into Denmark.
Based on interviews with borderlanders, civil society organizations and authorities in the border region, the conversation cards explore how the sudden return of border control and border fences have affected the region’s everyday life.