Contrasting Balkan utopias: Navigating migration and futurity in the physical remnants of Yugoslavia
Friday 31 May 2024, 3.15pm
64 Banbury Road
Matthew Porges (SAME, University of Oxford)
"Irregular" migrants moving along the Western Balkan Migration Route aspire to competing visions of Europe, and Europeanness, and along their journeys they encounter multiple competing, overlapping, or intersecting political projects. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Slovenia since 2021, this presentation will explore how various imaginaries of Europe are instantiated in the wake of Yugoslav socialism, EU integration, and an ongoing "migration crisis."
