Turin – Lipa, round trip. The SOLROUTES project join the Balkans Caravan 2024
From 13 to 20 of July a SOLROUTES research group, composed of a researcher (Enrico Fravega), an illustrator (Andrea Ferraris) and an expert of the local context (Valeria Garrè) will join and follow the Balkans Caravan 2024, promoted by Caravana Abriendo Fronteras, Carovane Migranti and Action for.
From Turin to Padua, from Padua to Bihac, from Bihac to Lipa, from Lipa to Trieste, from Trieste back to Turin, three buses – one from Madrid, one from the Basque Country and one from Valencia, Alicante and other cities on the southern Mediterranean coast – will bring hundreds of activists along the Balkan Route to report the violation of human rights at the borders, making visible what is happening at the ‘back door’ of the European Union.
Accordingly, the participants highlight as the recent approval of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum involves the weakening of the right to asylum and the basic rights of People on the Move, the fostering of EU necropolitics, and the racialisation of border policies.
As a border abolitionist research project with a strong focus on solidarities along the migration routes in the so called “EUrope at large”, the SOLROUTES research group participation is a crucial part of the ethnographic fieldwork activities carried out in the Balkans area.
