The book 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 micro levels, power relation between dominent and dominated commu;nities, and between communities and nation-states with reference to international border. They have discussed how nation-states offen underplya aspirationof communities living in border areas, while expecting the same people to conform with state discourses like citizenship and allegiance to nation-state.