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" Stuck en Route: "
Jordan, Joanna
Moser, Sarah
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1112041
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TLpq2514745855
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Jordan, Joanna
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Moser, Sarah
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Stuck en Route:\ Jordan, JoannaMoser, Sarah
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McGill University (Canada)
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2020
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2020
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M.A.
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151
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| Abstract
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The number of people undertaking clandestine migratory journeys to Europe has increased dramatically over the past several years. Particularly following the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015, the borders of Europe have been thoroughly enhanced and militarized in order to control flows of unwanted migration from the Middle East, North and West Africa, and Central and South Asia. The introduction of highly restrictive borders at the periphery of Europe has resulted in thousands of interrupted journeys and zones of mass migrant immobility in transit. Some migrants spend months and even years making many failed attempts to cross the borders into Europe, stuck in protracted transit situations along borders and in migration bottleneck zones. Immobility en route is an increasingly common and significant component of the clandestine migratory journey to Europe, and has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. This thesis examines interrupted journeys and migrant (im)mobilities along the Balkan Route. First, I highlight the opportunities and challenges of conducting engagement-driven ethnographic research among migrants in the context of informal transit camps. Second, I explore the spatiality of the landscapes of fragmented migratory journeys through Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the informal transit camps occupied by blocked migrants. Finally, I examine how migrants practice, experience, and respond to enhanced bordering regimes and involuntary immobility en route, and protracted transit situations at the periphery of Europe. This research makes unique contributions to the scholarship on irregular migration, bordering and its consequences, and the literature on the emerging geographies of contemporary irregular migration.
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Citizenship
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Feminism
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Militancy
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Political activism
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Postcolonialism
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Violence
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