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Georg Simmel makes the following contention: a frontier is the spatial expression of a social demarcation. Which means that any frontier, any boundary, has to be interpreted in the light of its own social determination. Human beings are constantly creating boundaries as ways of linking or separating themselves from others, but humans themselves are also frontier areas, which are reconfigured socially to the point of seeming to be boundless. Any person’s territorial situation in fact reveals their position in relation to others.