1st Edition
Notes from the EU’s Eastern Edge How Migrants Were Weaponized on the Polish-Belarusian Border
By Jo Harper
Copyright 2026
294 Pages
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Central European University Press
Notes from the EU's Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. It shows how Kremlin “migration engineering” met a ready-made European script of fear, pride, and denial along the Belarus-Poland frontier. It traces how memory politics and securitized compassion turn migrants into symbols in... Read more
1. Europe’s Mirror
2. When Moses Came to Poland
3. A New Wall
4. Polishness, Pain and Its Critics
5. An Othered Poland
6. The West’s Eastern Borderland
7. When “The East” Moves
8. Beyond the Pale
9. The Dialectics of Non-Change
Biography
Jo Harper is a British journalist based in Warsaw, freelancing for various international agencies. He also teaches at the American Studies Center, part of Warsaw University and holds a PhD from the London school of Economics. He has written three books on Polish politics, also published into Polish and German.
