1st Edition
Everyday Violence at the EU’s External Borders Games and Push-backs
By Karolina Augustova
Copyright 2023
122 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Combining conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, this book analyses games and push-back which are vectors to migrants' border-crossing attempts and violence that aims to deter their journeys at the Bosnian-Croatian border. It questions how these diverse forms of violence are experienced, not treating violence as singular episodes but rather paying attention to how... Read more
1.Introduction
2.Imagining the Balkan Route
3.Race, gender and border violence
4.Push and Back
5.The everyday matters
6.The game not over
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Biography
Karolína Augustová is Lecturer in International Relations and Sociology at Northumbria University. Her ethnographic research examines the European Union's migration externalisation in (post-)conflict zones, border violence, and human smuggling, which has been published in Geopolitics, Antipode, and Trends in Organised Crime among other journals. Her articles and commentaries have been also published in public outlets, including The Guardian, Politico, Aljazeera, and Open Democracy.
