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Thinking Like a Route: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans(Counter-geographies of the Refugee Balkan Route series)

Thinking Like a Route: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans(Counter-geographies of the Refugee Balkan Route series)


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This timely book posits the idea of a ‘route perspective’ as a multi-scalar methodology for studying informal migration. Claudio Minca, Yolanda Weima and their contributors draw on their rich multi-sited, multi-temporal ethnographic research along the Balkan Route, the most important informal overland migration route in Europe, to better understand how it is continuously formed through an ever-changing assemblage of spatialities, trajectories, materialities and actors.



Presenting a novel approach to researching the complex spaces of the Balkan Route, chapters first trace the key elements of the route’s formal infrastructure from a state perspective, including camps, border walls, and asylum systems, which highlights, in-turn, what is made invisible by the official state gaze. The authors then use their empirical findings at key sites to underscore the tenacious counter-geographies of people-on-the-move.



Thinking Like a Route is a vital read for students and researchers of human geography, especially political geography, interested in informal migration. It is also an important reference for academics in interdisciplinary migration, refugee and camp studies, as well as those with a focus on Balkan and Eastern European studies.



Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction 1 Yolanda Weima and Claudio Minca 1 Route thinking? 12 Claudio Minca and Yolanda Weima PART I MAPPINGS 2 Transit campization and the shifting Balkan Route camp archipelago 43 Yolanda Weima 3 Externalising the Common European Asylum System? Enlargement, legal harmonisation, and capacity building along the Balkan Route 70 Lorenzo Vianelli 4 Mapping border walls across the Western Balkans 94 Alexandra Rijke PART II REGIONAL DISPATCHES 5 From ‘transit zone’ to ‘buffer zone’ to… On Serbian camp geographies and the Balkan Route 118 Dragan Umek and Claudio Minca 6 Camp Geographies in Una-Sana Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018–2022) 143 Roberta Gentili, Claudio Minca and Yolanda Weima 7 ‘Trieste is beautiful at night’ 167 Claudio Minca and Dragan Umek

About the Author :
Edited by Claudio Minca, Professor of Geography and Yolanda Weima, Research Fellow, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy

Review :
‘This book provides a crucial examination of the embodied, spatial, and political realities that shape, (re)make, and govern international informal migration. Through a case study of the Balkan Route, the authors interrogate the concept of a “route,”’ government actions, and the strategies and embodied geographies of “people-on-the-move.” Expertly framed, the book is methodologically rich, offering insights into counter-mapping informal mobilities. It is essential reading for a broad range of academic readers.’ ‘In this stunningly original edited book, Claudio Minca and Yolanda Weima present a rich collection of research on the so-called ‘Balkan Route’ for migrants into Europe. Employing a critical geographies approach, the book explores counter-mappings of refugee movements and opens up new insights into the embodied spatialities of (im)mobilities.’


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781035384297
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Sub Title: Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans
  • ISBN-10: 1035384299
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Counter-geographies of the Refugee Balkan Route series
  • Width: 156 mm


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