Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

The sites of travel and migration represent the physical dimension of the migration infrastructures. This topic includes roads, routes and pathways, as well as border crossing points or ports of arrival, (hub) airports, transit migration hubs, bus and train stations, taxi ranks, hotels, refugee camps, temporary settlements (‘jungles’) or ‘safe houses’ but also geographical aspects like mountains, rivers, deserts and the seas. All these physical infrastructures facilitate or constrain and thus shape migratory routes and trajectories. The e diverse actors of travel and migration are active at or along these sites.

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FROM TRANSIT HUB TO DEAD END: A CHRONICLE OF IDOMENI

Authors Marianthi Anastasiadou, Athanasios Marvakis, Panagiota Mezidou, ...
Year 2017
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1 Working Paper

Governing the Balkan Route. Macedonia, Serbia and the European border regime

Authors Barbara Beznec, Marc S Speer, Marta Stojić Mitrović
Description
In the paper we trace how Macedonia and Serbia strategically positioned themselves regarding the government of transit migration though their territory by dynamically shifting between humanitarianism and securitization before the formalized corridor emerged, during its existence, in the process of its closure, and after it was shut down. This is not to say that precise dates can be pinpointed to distinguish these “phases”: the emergence of the formalized corridor in the south of the Balkan route, for example, was a dynamic process which resulted from the interplay of state practices, practices of mobility, activities of activists, volunteers, and NGOs, media coverage, etc. The same applies for its closure. However, the text follows a diachronic line in which we describe the contextual factors that decisively shaped the transformation of the migration policies of the two states. It focuses in particular on transportation practices, accommodation, (in)visibility of migrants, activity of (non-)state actors, unique national instruments (such as the 72-hours paper), the One Stop centres and the transit zones at the Serbian-Hungarian border.
Year 2017
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5 Report

Migration Solidarity and Acts of Citizenship along the Balkan Route

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Year 2017
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11 Project

Refugees 'in Transit': Vietnamese in a Refugee Camp in Hong Kong

Authors Kwok B. Chan, David Loveridge
Year 1987
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 14
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18 Journal Article

SMALL STATES AND THE BIG EUROPEAN MIGRATION CRISIS: THE OPEN BORDERS CHALLENGE

Authors Dana Lusa
Year 2019
Journal Name TEORIJA IN PRAKSA
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19 Journal Article

Fluctuations in Migration Flows to Europe

Authors Maastricht University, Scientific Research and Documentation Centre, Ministry of Security and Justice, Katie Kuschminder, ...
Description
In 2015, there were higher than normal migration flows from Turkey to Greece and then via the Western Balkans to other European Union (EU) countries, leading to what has been termed Europe’s ‘refugee crisis’. The primary research question guiding this study is: How can the fluctuations in migration flows on the Balkans route from January 2015-December 2018 be explained? The core sub-questions guiding this research are: What explanations are there for the sharp decrease in the number of refugees and migrants on the Balkans route even before the EU-Turkey Statement came into effect? What are the decision making factors of refugees and migrants when choosing to leave Turkey before and after the EU-Turkey Statement? To what extent do policy interventions impact refugees and migrants’ decision-making regarding routes and destination choices?
Year 2019
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20 Report

Decision Making on the Balkan Route and the EU-Turkey Statement

Authors Maastricht University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Koc University, ...
Description
In 2015, there were higher than normal migration flows from Turkey to Greece and then via the Western Balkans to other European Union (EU) countries, leading to what has been termed Europe’s ‘refugee crisis’. The primary research question guiding this study is: How can the fluctuations in migration flows on the Balkans route from January 2015-December 2018 be explained? The core sub-questions guiding this research are:What explanations are there for the sharp decrease in the number of refugees and migrants on the Balkans route even before the EU-Turkey Statement came into effect?What are the decision making factors of refugees and migrants when choosing to leave Turkey before and after the EU-Turkey Statement?To what extent do policy interventions impact refugees and migrants’ decision-making regarding routes and destination choices?
Year 2019
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22 Report

Volunteering for Refugees in Europe: Civil Society, Solidarity, and Forced Migration along the Balkan Route amid the Failure of the Common European Asylum System

Principal investigator J. Olaf Kleist (Principal Investigator), Serhat Karakayalı (Principal Investigator)
Description
Amid rising numbers of asylum seekers arriving in the EU and migrating along the Balkan route in 2015, state, EU and traditional NGO institutions failed to adequately receive, register and care for the new arrivals. Instead, volunteers stepped in to provide humanitarian assistance. They are locals as well as citizens from other European countries who engage with the crisis for a variety of reasons, in a range of contexts and with varying consequences. This research project will examine personal motives, social structures and political conditions of volunteering for refugees in countries along the so-called Balkan route: in Greece, in Slovenia, and in former Yugoslav countries. Based on political process tracing, sociological-ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews with volunteers, officials, locals and refugees we will devise country reports that will create the basis for a comparative study. Thus, we will interrogate whether we can witness in this refugee policies ’from below’ the creation of a particular, pro-immigration and human rights based European civil society or social movement.
Year 2016
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23 Project

UniCollaboration plenary session: virtual learning goes to camp – online pedagogies in contexts of emergency and crisis

Authors Barbara Moser-Mercer
Year 2020
Book Title Virtual exchange and 21st century teacher education: short papers from the 2019 EVALUATE conference
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26 Book Chapter

Dreams to Nightmares – Welcoming Culture, Xenophobia and Social Trauma along the Balkan Route

Authors Andreas Hamburger, Camellia Hancheva, Saime Ozcurumez, ...
Year 2018
Book Title Forced Migration and Social Trauma
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27 Book Chapter

Inclusive education for children with disabilities in a refugee camp

Authors Thomas M. Crea, Kerri Evans, Robert G. Hasson, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name DISASTERS
Citations (WoS) 5
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28 Journal Article

Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp.

Authors Jeremy Hein, Lynellyn D. Long
Year 1994
Journal Name International Migration Review
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29 Journal Article

Interwoven destinies in the 'long migration summer' : solidarity movements along the Western Balkan route

Authors Chiara MILAN, Andrea PIRRO
Year 2018
Book Title Solidarity mobilizations in the ‘refugee crisis’ : contentious moves, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, Palgrave studies in European political, pp. 125-153
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31 Book Chapter

The Cinecitta Refugee Camp (1944-1950)

Authors Noa Steimatsky
Year 2009
Journal Name OCTOBER
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33 Journal Article

Ramallah (Palestinian refugee camp, Abu Nahid)

Authors P Lagerquist
Year 2002
Journal Name TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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35 Journal Article

People on the move in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stuck in the Corridors to the EU

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Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have been part of the “Balkan route” for smuggling people, arms and drugs for decades, but also a migrant route for people who have been trying to reach Western Europe and the countries of the EU in order to save their lives and secure a future for themselves. While in 2015, when millions of people arrived in Europe over a short period of time, BiH was bypassed by mass movements, the situation started changing after the closure of the EU borders in 2016, and later on, in 2017, with the increase of violence and push backs in Croatia, and other countries at the EU borders. This report offers insight into the situation on the field: is there a system responsible for protection, security, and upholding fundamental human rights? What has the state response been like? What is the role of the international community?
Year 2019
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37 Report

The "Good" Smuggler: The Ethics and Morals of Human Smuggling among Syrians

Authors Luigi Achilli
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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39 Journal Article

Flüchtlingslager. Geschichte einer humanitären Technologie

Principal investigator Joël Glasman (Principal Investigator)
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Year 2015
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40 Project

No Marines here - Pakistan's Jalozai Refugee Camp

Authors A Malook
Year 2002
Journal Name Index on Censorship
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42 Journal Article

BAN-VINAI - THE REFUGEE CAMP - LONG,LD

Authors T WATERS
Year 1994
Journal Name Disasters
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43 Journal Article

Europe between Border Control and Refugee Protection. An Ethnography of the Maritime Border on the Mediterranean Sea

Authors Federica Benigni
Year 2012
Journal Name ZEITSCHRIFT FUR VOLKSKUNDE
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46 Journal Article

The daily governance of transit migration in Turkey at European Union borders: The two-way influence of Turkish-European Union border and migration management practices

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Year 2015
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48 Project

The socio-economic conditions of Jordan’s Palestinian camp refugees

Authors Åge Arild Tiltnes, Huafeng Zhang
Description
This report summarizes findings of two household surveys examining the living conditions of the Palestinian refugee-camp population in Jordan 2011, and examines how the living conditions have evolved since the late 1990s. It finds that people’s overall situation has improved, but that there are significant differences across camps and socio-economic groups, on many indicators.
Year 2014
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57 Report

Grassroots European Solidarity

Authors Chiara Milan, Luisa Chiodi
Year 2023
Journal Name Southeastern Europe
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64 Journal Article

Treatment of third country nationals at EU's external borders

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Year 2010
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70 Project

“Greece is like a door, you go through it to get to Europe”: Understanding Afghan migration to Europe

Authors Angeliki DIMITRIADI
Description
The main issues highlighted in the report of IRMA research programme are the role of asylum as primary reason for migration, and the importance of capital as the main parameter of successful migration. The smuggler is the key actor underscoring all discussions, holding multiple roles; from facilitator of mobility, to source of information, or disruptor to the migratory project. The choice of destination and the limited information informants actually have, are discussed, as well as the role of Turkey as a hub for collection of information, but mostly of money to continue the journey. The border crossing for both entry and exit is discussed in relation to policies in Greece and particular border fencing and increased deterrence of entry. Finally, the text highlights the issue of detention, as the key policy in place at the time of writing that appears to have impacted heavily both the migratory route but also the decision of Afghans to leave Greece, either via transit (where possible) or via return to Afghanistan.
Year 2015
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73 Report

Boat migration across the Central Mediterranean: drivers, experiences and responses

Authors S McMahon, N Sigona
Description
In 2015 an estimated 1,011,712 people crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in search of safety and a better life. 3,770 are known to have died trying to make this journey1. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DfID), the MEDMIG project examines the dynamics, determinants, drivers and infrastructures underpinning this recent migration across and loss of life in the Mediterranean. This research brief presents some of our findings in relation to the Central Mediterranean route from North Africa to Italy and Malta, exploring the dynamics of migration before, during and after the sea crossing. We will place particular focus on the motivations, routes and experiences of those making the journey and local, national and European Union (EU) policy responses.
Year 2016
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76 Report

Syrian refugees and information precarity

Authors Melissa Wall, Madeline Otis Campbell, Dana Janbek
Year 2017
Journal Name New Media & Society
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77 Journal Article

REFUGEE CAMP HEALTH-CARE - SELECTED ANNOTATED REFERENCES - SIMMONDS,SP, GABAUDAN,M

Authors J SEAMAN
Year 1982
Journal Name Disasters
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80 Journal Article

"We Are in the Middle of Two Great Powers": Refugees, Activists, and Government during the Plattsburgh Border Crisis of 1987

Authors John Rosinbum
Year 2015
Journal Name Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
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81 Journal Article

CITY OF THORNS Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Authors Caroline Moorehead
Year 2016
Journal Name NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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83 Journal Article

The Myth of Self-Reliance

Authors Naohiko Omata
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85 Book

The human smuggling industry : nuances and complexities

Authors Luigi ACHILLI
Year 2018
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89 Working Paper

Ten Days in Brisbane

Authors Gary MacLennan
Year 2017
Journal Name JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REALISM
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93 Journal Article

Expellees on strike: Competing victimization discourses and the Dachau Refugee Camp Protest Movement, 1948-1949

Authors B Melendy
Year 2005
Journal Name GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
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94 Journal Article

Performing (in) Solidarity: The Refugee Protest Camp Vienna and Homohalal (2013-18)

Authors Monika Mokre
Year 2018
Journal Name Austrian Studies
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96 Journal Article

The don dance: An expression of Karen nationalism

Authors Heather MacLachlan
Year 2006
Journal Name VOICES-THE JOURNAL OF NEW YORK FOLKLORE
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97 Journal Article

Factors in use of family planning services by Syrian women in a refugee camp in Jordan

Authors Lucy West, Harriet Isotta-Day, Maryam Ba-Break, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name JOURNAL OF FAMILY PLANNING AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE
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99 Journal Article
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