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.