Social Boundaries at the EU Border: Engaged Ethnography and Migrant Solidarity in Bihać, Bosnia–Herzegovina

E Helms - Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is a reflexive examination of ethnographic positionality in the Bosnian border
town of Bihać as it experienced a bottleneck of migrants and refugees from outside of …

The Game: Ritualized Exhaustion and Subversion on the Western Balkan Route

B Zocchi - Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The expression to go game is widely used among migrants transiting across the Western
Balkan route to describe the attempt to cross a border irregularly. In the Bosnian canton of …

Between supporting and reporting

M Hameršak - Intersections. East European Journal of Society and …, 2021 - ceeol.com
In response to the mass mobilities disruption of the European Union border control regime,
numerous self-organized, pro-migrant ad hoc solidarity groups proliferated across Europe …

Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier

B Zocchi - Postcolonial Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Since 2018, the Bosnian Canton of Una-Sana became the bottleneck of the
Western Balkan Route and the last frontier before the EU border. These events illustrate the …

Beyond Transit: Precarious Emplacement and the Wavering Reception of Migrants in the City of Zagreb

I Petričević - 2022 - diva-portal.org
The territory of the Republic of Croatia has historically been a place of forced and economic
migration, mainly consisting of population movements between former Yugoslav states and …

How Bosnia and Herzegovina Was Bordered: The Supervised Making of a Border/Mobility Assemblage in the European Semiperiphery

S Jansen - Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2023 - degruyter.com
This article has an empirical and a conceptual aim. The first aim is to provide additional
historical depth to recent analyses of the “Balkan Route” through Bosnia and Herzegovina …

[PDF][PDF] Torture, Structural Violence and Migration

F Perocco - Migration and Torture in Today's World, 2023 - academia.edu
This essay highlights that torture has become a structural element of the migratory
experience in most of the world, especially as a result of the worsening of the conditions of …

New borders, old solidarities:(Post-) Cold war genealogies of mobility along the “Balkan Route”

D Henig, M Rasza - Socialist Yugoslavia and the non-aligned …, 2023 - degruyter.com
On 1 September 1961, a large crowd of foreign dignitaries along with the local hosts
gathered in the newly repaired Ottoman-era Bajrakli Mosque in the centre of Belgrade, the …

Tra confini e solidarietà: attivismo femminista, migrazioni e pratiche solidali in area balcanica

MG Marchesini - 2024 - dspace.unive.it
A partire da un'analisi dei processi di formazione dei confini in area balcanica, delle loro
modalità di funzionamento, nonché delle politiche dell'Unione Europea in materia di asilo e …

The Making of a Frontier: EUrope, Borders, and Games in the Una-Sana Canton

B Zocchi - 2023 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
The Bosnian canton of Una-Sana stretches across the north-western border between the EU
and the Western Balkans. Since 2018, it has been a zone of transit for thousands of migrants …