Book release: ‘The Balkan Route. Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces’ (Routledge) by dr Robert Rydzewski

The  book ‘The Balkan Route. Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces’ is an ethnography of the people migrating through the Balkan route and the reaction of the local communities who witnessed their struggle to reach the European Union (EU). Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in North Macedonia and Serbia, it pays special attention to the “refugee crisis” that gave birth to a new border regime based on a permanent suspension of laws, normalisation of violence and the entrapment of migrants stranded in a liminal space at the gates to the EU, able to go neither further nor back.