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Ended
July 2024
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy
Nodes: Bihac, Lipa, Padua, Trieste, Turin
The SOLROUTES project join the Balkans Caravan 2024
As a border abolitionist research project, SOLROUTES places a strong emphasis on solidarity along migration routes in what is referred to as “EUrope at large”. SolRoutes’ participation in the Balkans Caravan 2024 is a critical component of the ethnographic fieldwork activities conducted in the Balkans area.
The SOLROUTES research group, comprising researcher Enrico Fravega, illustrator Andrea Ferraris, and local context expert Valeria Garrè, will participate in the Balkans Caravan 2024 from July 13 to 20. This event is a collaborative effort by Caravana Abriendo Fronteras, Carovane Migranti, and Action for.
The caravan will journey from Turin to Padua, Bihac, Lipa, Trieste, and back to Turin. Activists from Madrid, the Basque Country, Valencia, Alicante, and other cities on the southern Mediterranean coast will travel on three buses. Their mission is to traverse the Balkan Route and expose human rights violations occurring at the borders, thereby shedding light on the events transpiring at the ‘back door’ of the European Union.
The recent approval of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum has raised concerns among the participants. They argue that it undermines the right to asylum and the basic rights of People on the Move, promotes EU necropolitics, and racialises border policies. This research caravan aims to further explore and understand these dynamics.
