The Game: Or,'the making of migration'along the Balkan Route

C Minca, J Collins - Political Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 'The Game'is how many refugees describe their attempts to informally travel to
Western Europe via the so-called Balkan Route. This article conceptualises The Game as a …

Closing camps

Y Weima, C Minca - Progress in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Refugee camp geographies vary greatly; however, the most fleeting informal camps and
decades-old institutional settlements have in common that they are meant to be temporary …

Forced migrations and externalization of European Union border control: Serbia on the Balkan migration route

M Bobić, D Šantić - International Migration, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The article argues that the recent “migration crisis” has been constructed as a security threat
to the European Union, which conceals both the multiple causes of forced migrations, and …

Managing the “refugee crisis” along the Balkan route: field notes from Serbia

C Minca, D Šantić, D Umek - 2018 - academic.oup.com
This chapter reflects on the management of the “refugee crisis” along the Balkan Route on
the part of the Serbian authorities by highlighting how, with the exception of the dramatic …

Micro‐Politics of a Makeshift Refugee Camp: The Grafosrem Factory in Šid, Serbia

J Jordan, C Minca - Antipode, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the EU's increasingly militarised and violent external borders, makeshift refugee camps
have developed into crucial nodes along the “Balkan Route” where refugees reside …

The refugee camp as geopolitics: The case of Preševo (Serbia)

D Umek, C Minca, D Šantić - Mediterranean mobilities: Europe's changing …, 2019 - Springer
The emergence of the Balkan Route in 2015 and its development in 2016 has temporarily
shifted the geographical axis of the refugee-related migrations, complementing the existing …

The double articulation of sovereign bordering: spaces of exception, sovereign vulnerability, and Agamben's Schmitt/Foucault synthesis

MPA Murphy - Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
With the rise of authoritarian populism and critical border studies, as well as the continued
presence of the Minutemen and borderlands studies, it is safe to say that sovereign borders …

The new refugee Balkan Route: field notes from the Bosnian border

D Umek, C Minca - Rivista geografica italiana: CXXVII, 1, 2020, 2020 - torrossa.com
This article is one of the results of an ongoing project focussed on the refugee Balkan Route,
which began in 2015. In adopting a style and structure that have been deliberately …

Walls, walling and the immunitarian imperative 1

C Minca, A Rijke - Urban Walls, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Wall announcing and wall building has become a popular practice amongst many politicians
in Western liberal democracies. In this chapter, we discuss the return of old-fashioned …

Transitional shelters on a policy landslide–experiencing displacement on the frontline in Bosnia and Herzegovina

D Santic, N Oruc, S DEgiorgi - Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article sheds light on the status of migrants and asylum seekers in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, as well as the state response to the growing challenges in the area of …