Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders

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ID21207655
AuthorsR Altin (0000-0002-5545-2739, University of Trieste), Stefano Degli Uberti (0000-0001-7415-588X, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume24
Issue3
Pages439-459
Publication date2022-05-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1944-8953 • E-ISSN: 1944-8961
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19448953.2021.2015662
OpenAlexW4200072928
LanguageEN
Citations received6

After the closure of the so-called ‘Balkan Route’, the western Balkan countries became buffer zones for thousands of unregistered migrants living ‘in waiting’ in precarious conditions. The overland route captures everyday configurations of multiple spatial, temporal and social interconnections, in their entanglement with the historicity of the cross-border areas. By analysing ethnographic accounts collected on the Italian-Austrian and Italian-Slovenian borders, the paper explores the street-level practices of public/institutional apparatus and the stories of would-be asylum seekers, with their experiences of mobility and ‘involuntary immobility’ shaped by power relations. Our aim is to discuss the complexity of this process which concerns patterns of (im)mobility (e.g., waithood), migration projects, rejection, violence, vulnerability and agency from the point of view of the migrants entering the European Union through this eastern passage

Economic geography · Ethnography · European union · Geography · Irregular migration · Mobilities · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Anthropology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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