Notes from the EU’s eastern edge how migrants were weaponized on the Polish–Belarusian border Jo Harper

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Jo, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Immigrants.

Borderlands.

Poland.

Belarus.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest CEU Press [2026]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

"Notes from the EU's Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. Along the Belarus–Poland frontier, it shows how Kremlin “migration engineering” met a ready-made European script of fear, pride, and denial. In border forests—and in newsrooms, museums, classrooms—it traces how memory politics and securitized compassion turn migrants into symbols, while bilingual gatekeepers launder hard edges into “responsible” discourse. The book’s core contribution is to shift Polish-populism studies from monist typologies to a processual account of a dialectical, polycentric regime of managed antagonisms—refusing the easy pejorative of “populism” and retaining an emancipatory horizon. Vivid reportage sits with compact documentary mini-cases to show how trauma, sovereignty and solidarity are being rewritten at Europe’s edge. Definitive for debates on borders, memory and the political unconscious in Central Europe"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Europe’s mirror

When Moses came to Poland

A new wall

Polishness, pain and its critics

An othered Poland

The West’s eastern borderland

When “the East” moves

Beyond the pale

The dialectics of non-change

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 3, 2026)

Other Edition:

Print version: 9789048574278 Harper, Jo, 1968- Budapest : CEU Press, [2026]

ISBN:

9789048574360

9048574366

9789048574377

9048574374

9781003793359

1003793355

OCLC:

1568764984

Publisher Number:

CIPO000394716

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license