Thinking like a route : counter-geographies of informal migration in the Balkans / edited by Claudio Minca (Professor of Geography), Yolanda Weima (Research Fellow, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minca, Claudio, editor.

Weima, Yolanda, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Counter-geographies of the refugee Balkan Route series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Balkan Peninsula.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This timely book posits the idea of a 'route perspective' as a multi-scalar methodology for studying informal migration. Claudio Minca, Yolanda Weima and their contributors draw on their rich multi-sited, multi-temporal ethnographic research along the Balkan Route, the most important informal overland migration route in Europe, to better understand how it is continuously formed through an ever-changing assemblage of spatialities, trajectories, materialities and actors. Presenting a novel approach to researching the complex spaces of the Balkan Route, chapters first trace the key elements of the route's formal infrastructure from a state perspective, including camps, border walls, and asylum systems, which highlights, in-turn, what is made invisible by the official state gaze. The authors then use their empirical findings at key sites to underscore the tenacious counter-geographies of people-on-the-move. Thinking Like a Route is a vital read for students and researchers of human geography, especially political geography, interested in informal migration. It is also an important reference for academics in interdisciplinary migration, refugee and camp studies, as well as those with a focus on Balkan and Eastern European studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction / Yolanda Weima and Claudio Minca

1. Route thinking? / Claudio Minca and Yolanda Weima

Part I: Mappings

2. Transit campization and the shifting balkan route camp archipelago / Yolanda Weima

3. Externalising the common European asylum system? Enlargement, legal harmonisation, and capacity building along the balkan route / Lorenzo Vianelli

4. Mapping border walls across the western balkans / Alexandra Rijke

Part II: Regional dispatches

5. From 'transit zone' to 'buffer zone' to... On serbian camp geographies and the balkan route / Dragan Umek and Claudio Minca

6. Camp geographies in una-sana canton, bosnia and herzegovina (2018-2022) / Roberta Gentili, Claudio Minca and Yolanda Weima

7. 'Trieste is beautiful at night' / Claudio Minca and Dragan Umek.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035384303 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.