Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia
Апстракт
In this text I discuss representations of bordering as enacted by state actors in Serbia, which went all the way from invisibility to spectacularised incarceration of people on the move1 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The example of Serbia, as EU’s ‘outer’ region, is used to reflect on the role of border spectacles as main instruments of zoning and bordering, as well as the production of geo-political regions with differential operational roles in the larger EU project of migration control. After briefly introducing the migratory movements across the region, labelled as Balkan Route or Balkan Circuit (Stojić Mitrović and Vilenica, 2019), I focus on the role of the Western Balkans in the EU border regime. The analysis of the bordering spectacles taking place across Serbia exhibits the construction of anomalous border zones at the edges of the EU.
Кључне речи:
border spectacles / bordering / EU border regime / externalization / Balkan RouteИзвор:
Anthropological Theory Commons, 2021Финансирање / пројекти:
- Министарство науке, технолошког развоја и иновација Републике Србије, институционално финансирање - 200173 (Етнографски институт САНУ, Београд) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200173)
URI
https://www.at-commons.com/2021/07/29/border-spectacles-and-covid-19-from-invisibility-to-forced-encampment-of-people-on-the-move-in-serbia/https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/15487
Институција/група
Етнографски институт САНУ / Institute of Ethnography SASATY - CONF AU - Stojić Mitrović, Marta PY - 2021 UR - https://www.at-commons.com/2021/07/29/border-spectacles-and-covid-19-from-invisibility-to-forced-encampment-of-people-on-the-move-in-serbia/ UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/15487 AB - In this text I discuss representations of bordering as enacted by state actors in Serbia, which went all the way from invisibility to spectacularised incarceration of people on the move1 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The example of Serbia, as EU’s ‘outer’ region, is used to reflect on the role of border spectacles as main instruments of zoning and bordering, as well as the production of geo-political regions with differential operational roles in the larger EU project of migration control. After briefly introducing the migratory movements across the region, labelled as Balkan Route or Balkan Circuit (Stojić Mitrović and Vilenica, 2019), I focus on the role of the Western Balkans in the EU border regime. The analysis of the bordering spectacles taking place across Serbia exhibits the construction of anomalous border zones at the edges of the EU. C3 - Anthropological Theory Commons T1 - Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15487 ER -
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Stojić Mitrović, M.. (2021). Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia. in Anthropological Theory Commons. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15487
Stojić Mitrović M. Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia. in Anthropological Theory Commons. 2021;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15487 .
Stojić Mitrović, Marta, "Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia" in Anthropological Theory Commons (2021), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15487 .