This paper examines how racial violence underpins the European Union's border regime.
Drawing on two case studies, in northern France and the Balkans, we explore how border …

Borders are sites of epistemic struggle. Focusing on the illegal tactic of the “pushback,”
which is routinely deployed by state authorities to forcefully expel asylum seekers from …

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 …

The existing critical literature on NGOs operating in the context of European migration has
interrogated their involvement in systems of state surveillance and neoliberal …

This article examines some of the contested geographical imaginaries of the so-called
“Balkan Route” as part of the wider Mediterranean migration complex. More specifically, we …

Pushbacks have become a key feature of EU migration controls since 2015. As this article
argues, practices of pushbacks stretch from EU spaces, such as Croatia, to its external …

Migrants' involvement in smuggling increases alongside restricted cross-border movement
and violent borders, yet this dynamic is usually examined from migrants' position as clients …

Global policy commitments to refugee protection are shaped by ever‐growing pressures,
from displacements triggered by conflicts, extremism and climate crisis to domestic fear …

This intervention explores the ways in which gendered and racialized constructions of
vulnerability and victimhood are politically contested and mobilized in asylum procedures …

This article examines the overlap between European Union migration controls and internal
counter-terror measures in the Kurdish populated region at the Turkey-Iran border. It …