[Ethics and Politics of Ethnography across Balkan Borderscapes: Migration, Research and Care

Drawing on critical migration studies and the ethics of (humanitarian) care, this workshop will introduce participants to precarised and illegalised migration movements across Balkan borderscapes. Using the term borderscape will allow us to look beyond physical and geographical borderlands and focus on how border regimes penetrate everyday life. We will examine how political border epistemologies reproduce racism, violence and administrative categories (asylum seekers, undocumented border crossers, migrant workers, etc.). We will also investigate actions that challenge this perspective by organising alternative infrastructures of care. Special attention will be given to ethnographic research ethics and politics. This will enable participants to explore the potentials and limits of ethnography when working with illegalised and impoverished individuals in structurally uncertain contexts, marked by proliferating surveillance and the expansion of far-right discourses.

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