Balkan Route - Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces

This book is an ethnography of the people migrating through the Balkan route and the reaction of the local communities who witnessed their struggle to reach the European Union (EU). Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in North Macedonia and Serbia, it pays special attention to the "refugee crisis" that gave birth to a new border regime based on a permanent suspension of laws, normalisation of violence and the entrapment of migrants stranded in a liminal space at the gates to the EU, able to go neither further nor back.
The book will appeal to an international audience of academics of migration studies, social and political science, and the wider public interested in migration and social and political changes in Southeast Europe.

List of contents

Introduction  1. Chaos of Liminality  2. Solidarity in Abandonment  3. Europeanisation of Migration  4. Waiting: The Strain of Liminality  5. Migrant Movement as In-betweenness  Summary: I Must Keep Going

About the author

Robert Rydzewski defended his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, in 2020. Currently he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at the same university.

Summary

This book is an ethnography of the people migrating through the Balkan route and the reaction of the local communities who witnessed their struggle to reach the European Union.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Rydzewski, Robert (Adam Mickiewicz University Rydzewski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032395432
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239543-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Southeast European Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Southeast Europe, The Balkans, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General