TY  - CONF
AU  - Stojić Mitrović, Marta
AU  - Hameršak, Marijana
AU  - Campbell, Simon
PY  - 2023
UR  - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/15597
AB  - As a product of modernity, the railway is a mobility (infra)structure shaped by the ideology of progress, coordination, and certainty (Beaumont and Freeman 2007). In this presentation, we ask how this structure works in the context of uncertainty. We are interested in the interactions of prolonged and repeated situations of uncertainty related to the clandestine or irregularized migration, on the one side, with the railway, on the other. Our main question is how railways are utilized for both containing and enabling mobilities towards the European Union. Based on the long-term ethnographic research along the Balkan migratory trail, we discuss how railways are used by clandestine migrants for facilitating movement, as leads and resting infrastructures, and how they are used by state authorities to hinder and revert this movement, as (mobile) detentions and paths backward. We examine the relation of railway-use associated tragic events and border deaths in the context of irregularized migration with changes in migration practices and discourses. The use of railway to prevent the unwanted movement toward the EU resulted in physical changes of railway infrastructures. We investigate how the usages of active/abandoned railways inform and reshape everyday geographies of movement along the route, intercity mobility and life on the EU administrative border. 
By focusing on the entanglements of railway and irregularized migration, this presentation seeks to illustrate how uncertainty operates on the move, unpacking the way train infrastructure spatially interfaces mobile bodies with the potentials and foreclosures of crossing borders, contributing to the non-linear understanding of migration.
PB  - Brno : Masaryk University
C3  - SIEF2023 Living Uncertainty 16th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) 7-10 June 2023
T1  - The Railway and Clandestine Migration along the Balkan Migratory Trail
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15597
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Stojić Mitrović, Marta and Hameršak, Marijana and Campbell, Simon",
year = "2023",
abstract = "As a product of modernity, the railway is a mobility (infra)structure shaped by the ideology of progress, coordination, and certainty (Beaumont and Freeman 2007). In this presentation, we ask how this structure works in the context of uncertainty. We are interested in the interactions of prolonged and repeated situations of uncertainty related to the clandestine or irregularized migration, on the one side, with the railway, on the other. Our main question is how railways are utilized for both containing and enabling mobilities towards the European Union. Based on the long-term ethnographic research along the Balkan migratory trail, we discuss how railways are used by clandestine migrants for facilitating movement, as leads and resting infrastructures, and how they are used by state authorities to hinder and revert this movement, as (mobile) detentions and paths backward. We examine the relation of railway-use associated tragic events and border deaths in the context of irregularized migration with changes in migration practices and discourses. The use of railway to prevent the unwanted movement toward the EU resulted in physical changes of railway infrastructures. We investigate how the usages of active/abandoned railways inform and reshape everyday geographies of movement along the route, intercity mobility and life on the EU administrative border. 
By focusing on the entanglements of railway and irregularized migration, this presentation seeks to illustrate how uncertainty operates on the move, unpacking the way train infrastructure spatially interfaces mobile bodies with the potentials and foreclosures of crossing borders, contributing to the non-linear understanding of migration.",
publisher = "Brno : Masaryk University",
journal = "SIEF2023 Living Uncertainty 16th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) 7-10 June 2023",
title = "The Railway and Clandestine Migration along the Balkan Migratory Trail",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15597"
}

Stojić Mitrović, M., Hameršak, M.,& Campbell, S.. (2023). The Railway and Clandestine Migration along the Balkan Migratory Trail. in SIEF2023 Living Uncertainty 16th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) 7-10 June 2023
Brno : Masaryk University..
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15597

Stojić Mitrović M, Hameršak M, Campbell S. The Railway and Clandestine Migration along the Balkan Migratory Trail. in SIEF2023 Living Uncertainty 16th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) 7-10 June 2023. 2023;.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15597 .

Stojić Mitrović, Marta, Hameršak, Marijana, Campbell, Simon, "The Railway and Clandestine Migration along the Balkan Migratory Trail" in SIEF2023 Living Uncertainty 16th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) 7-10 June 2023 (2023),
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15597 .