Everyday Violence at the EU's External Borders: Games and Push-backs

This book combines conflict studies and feminist perspectives to analyze games and push-back at the Bosnian-Croatian border, focusing on how migrants experience and make meaning of diverse forms of violence across months and years. It examines direct violence, structural harms, and its impact on men's migration journeys, raising questions about race, gender, and border governance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 110 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the intricate interplay between conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, shedding light on the multifaceted dynamics that shape border-crossing attempts and the violence aimed at deterring migrants at the Bosnian-Croatian border. By examining a range of games and push-back mechanisms, the author seeks to understand the diverse experiences of violence encountered by migrants as they navigate their perilous journeys. Rather than treating violence as isolated incidents, the book emphasizes the importance of recognizing the long-term effects of these experiences on migrants' lives, acknowledging the ways in which they make sense of violence across months and years.

The author delves into the realm of direct violence, exploring its intricate connections with structural harms and questioning how these ultimately manifest as everyday, concrete, and intimate processes at the border. She also raises critical questions about the targets of this violence and the locations where it occurs, exploring whether and how dominant assumptions about race and gender shape men's migration journeys.

This book holds immense appeal to scholars and postgraduate students engaged in the study of migration, violence, masculinities, racialization, border governance within the European Union, and scholar activism. It offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the complex dynamics that shape the lives of migrants and the broader societal implications of these experiences.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032312118