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Border Policing and Security Technologies Mobility and Proliferation of Borders in the Western Balkans
By Sanja Milivojevic
Copyright 2019
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a unique and original examination of borders and bordering practices in the Western Balkans prior to, during, and after the migrant "crisis" of the 2010s. Based on extensive, mixed-method, exploratory research in Serbia, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Kosovo, the book charts technological and human interventions deployed in this region that simultaneously enable and hinder the mobility... Read more
- Introduction: Transnational mobility and multiplicity of borders
- Borders, security technologies, and mobility
- Social sorting of non-citizens: Transiting "Other", multiplicity of borders, and strategies of control
- Social sorting of citizens: "Bogus" asylum seekers and proliferation of borders in the Western Balkans
- Bordering women, via trafficking: Gender and mobility of non-citizens
- "Stealing the fire", 2.0 style?: Counter-security technology, mobility, and de-securitisation of migration
- Conclusion: Security technologies, mobility, and countering bordering practices in the Global South
Biography
Sanja Milivojevic is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at La Trobe, Melbourne, Australia. Sanja’s research interests are borders and mobility, security technologies, surveillance and crime, gender and victimisation, and international criminal justice and human rights. She is Associate Director of Border Criminologies at Oxford University and editorial board member for the journal Temida (Serbia). Sanja publishes in English and Serbian. Her latest book, co-authored with Marie Segrave and Sharon Pickering, is Sex Trafficking and Modern Slavery: The Absence of Evidence (Routledge 2017).
