Evropski granični režim i eksternalizacija kontrole granica EU : Srbija na balkanskoj migracijskoj ruti
The European Border Regime and the Externalisation of the EU Border Control : Serbia on the Balkan Migration Route

Author(s): Marta Stojić Mitrović
Subject(s): Anthropology, Migration Studies
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Migrants; Serbia; State borders; Southeast Europe
Summary/Abstract: This study represents a reworked version of my doctoral dissertation "Asylum and irregular migration in Serbia at the beginning of the 21st century: cultural paradigms", which I defended in May 2016 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, that is, immediately after the topic of migration left the narrow professional framework and sporadic media coverage and entered the everyday public discourse (Stojić Mitrović 2016). On the instrumentalization of humanitarian or. security narratives, discursive frameworks and practices in attempts to manage migration movements on the so-called I wrote about the Balkan route until 2016 in the publication "Governing the Balkan Route. Macedonia, Serbia and the European Border regime" (Beznec, Speer and Stojić Mitrović 2016), while in "The Dark Sides of Europeanization. Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EUropean Border Regime" (Stojić Mitrović, Ahmetašević, Beznec and Kurnik, 2020) I show the dynamics of migration processes since the abolition of the eponymous of the Balkan migration corridor until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The text in front of you deals with material related to the period preceding these, far more media-supported and academically interpreted phases of the development of European border regimes on the territory of the Republic of Serbia, in an effort to show that transit migrations have not only been happening since the "long summer of migration" in 2015 (Kasparek and Speer 2015), when simplified paradigms of the "refugee/migrant crisis" entered the spotlight and dominated public discourse, but that they represent long-term and complex processes, shaped by political, economic and social currents, which, accordingly, are articulated in different periods through often conflicting narrative frameworks.

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