This volume contains eighteen chapters on communities and cultures located across international borders in South and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Authors have dealt with a wide range of issues that include perception of space, identification of self and nationality at macro and micro levels, power relation between dominant and dominated communities, and between communities and nation-states with reference to international border. They have discussed how nation-states often underplay aspiration of communities living in border areas, while expecting the same people to conform with state discourses like citizenship and allegiance to nation-state.