List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše, and Tea Škokić

Chapter 1. Autonomy
Marijana Hameršak, Uršula Lipovec Čebron, and Jelka Zorn

Chapter 2. Camp
Iva Pleše

Chapter 3. Coercion
Teodora Jovanović

Chapter 4. Death
Marijana Hameršak

Chapter 5. Detention
Marijana Hameršak and Jelka Zorn

Chapter 6. Erasure
Jelka Zorn and Uršula Lipovec Čebron

Chapter 7. Externalization
Marta Stojić Mitrović

Chapter 8. Fence
Mojca Piškor, Iva Pleše, and Tea Škokić

Chapter 9. Game
Bojan Mucko, Iva Pleše, and Tea Škokić

Chapter 10. Health
Uršula Lipovec Čebron

Chapter 11. Humanitarianism
Duško Petrović and Romana Pozniak

Chapter 12. Industry
Romana Pozniak and Drago Župarić-Iljić

Chapter 13. Pushback
Marijana Hameršak and Bojan Mucko

Chapter 14. Refugeehood
Duško Petrović and Drago Župarić-Iljić

Chapter 15. Rescue
Marijana Hameršak and Romana Pozniak

Chapter 16. Resettlement
Drago Župarić-Iljić

Chapter 17. Route
Marta Stojić Mitrović, Jelka Zorn, and Drago Župarić-Iljić

Chapter 18. Solidarity
Romana Pozniak

Chapter 19. Spectacularization
Marta Stojić Mitrović

Chapter 20. Vulnerability
Uršula Lipovec Čebron and Tea Škokić

Chapter 21. Waiting
Bojan Mucko and Mojca Piškor

Chapter 22. Zone
Teodora Jovanović and Marta Stojić Mitrović

Conclusion
Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše, and Tea Škokić

Appendix

Index

Keywords of the Balkan Route

The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery

Edited by Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Tea Škokić

214 pages, 20 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-83695-245-9 Hb Published (November 2025)

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Shaped by the criminalization of migration and control over movement, the Balkan Route has emerged as a key site of border violence and migrant resistance along the southeastern edges of the European Union. Keywords of the Balkan Route explores the vocabularies structuring this regime by tracing the meanings, overlaps, and tensions of terms such as Autonomy, Route, Waiting, Game, and Solidarity. Featuring contributors from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia, the volume draws on ethnographic research and interdisciplinary approaches to examine restricted mobilities and border struggles through critically engaged perspectives and experimental analytical formats.

Marijana Hameršak is a research advisor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include history and theory of literature, history of reading and books, children's literature, folkloristics, and critical migration and border studies.

Iva Pleše is a senior research associate at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include ethnography of writing and correspondence, methodology of ethnographic fieldwork, production of heritage, and ethnography of migration and refugeehood.

Tea Škokić is a research advisor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia. Her academic interests include feminist and gender anthropology, anthropology of work, and ethnography of migration.

Series: Volume 54, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Europe

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC007000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Emigration & Immigration; SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees

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Keywords of the Balkan Route

The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery

Edited by Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Tea Škokić

Series: Volume 54, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Europe

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Keywords of the Balkan Route

The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery

Edited by Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Tea Škokić

Series: Volume 54, Forced Migration

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Europe