The Frontier Within: The European Border Regime in the Balkans

Vol. 5, Issue 1/2020

Marijana Hameršak, Sabine Hess, Marc Speer, Marta Stojić Mitrović
The Forging of the Balkan Route
Contextualizing the Border Regime in the EU Periphery

Map 1: Refugee District—Refugees in the Refugee District between displacement and spatial appropriation. Map by Cosima Zita Seichter, Miriam Neßler & Paul Knopf in Mapping In-Betweenness.

Articles

Barbara Beznec, Andrej Kurnik
Old Routes, New Perspectives
A Postcolonial Reading of the Balkan Route

Romana Pozniak
Affective Labor within the Local Humanitarian Workscape

Robert Rydzewski
Hope, Waiting, and Mobility
Migrant Movement in Serbia After The EU-Turkey Deal

Céline Cantat
The Rise and Fall of Migration Solidarity in Belgrade

Teodora Jovanović
Transformations of Humanitarian Aid and Response Modes to Migration Movements
A Case Study of the Miksalište Center in Belgrade

Artistic Contribution

Selma Banich
The Shining
From an Anonymous Wall to Madina Hussiny Square

Map 2: Belgrade—The Refugee District as a playground for neoliberal urban politics: between invisibilisation and temporary niches. Map by Cosima Zita Seichter, Miriam Neßler & Paul Knopf in Mapping In-Betweenness.

Essays

Azra Hromadžić
Notes from the Field
»Migrant Crisis« in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Patricia Artimova
A Volunteer's Diary
We Did a Better Job in Serbia

Interview

Push-Back Map Collective
The Push-Back Map
Mapping Border Violence in Europe and Beyond. A Collective Self-Reflection

Artistic Contribution

Cosima Zita Seichter, Miriam Neßler, Paul Knopf
Mapping In-Betweenness
The Refugee District in Belgrade in the Context of Migration, Urban Development, and Border Regimes

Map 3: Serbia—The Refugee District in the context of Serbian migration management: between regulating and tolerating. Map by Cosima Zita Seichter, Miriam Neßler & Paul Knopf in Mapping In-Betweenness.

Interventions

Karolína Augustová, Jack Sapoch
Border Violence as Border Deterrence
Condensed Analysis of Violent Push-Backs from the Ground

Info Kolpa
Report on Illegal Practices of Collective Expulsion at the Slovenian-Croatian Border and Struggles Against It

Map 4: EU—The Refugee District as a mirror of power hierarchies between the EU and Serbia. Map by Cosima Zita Seichter, Miriam Neßler & Paul Knopf in Mapping In-Betweenness.

Research Lab

Andrea Contenta
From Corridor to Encampment
Mapping EU Strategies of Containment in Serbia

Emina Bužinkić
Deported Man, Secured State
A Long Trajectory of a Deportation