Contrasting Balkan utopias: Navigating migration and futurity in the physical remnants of Yugoslavia
“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.”
Date: 31 May 2024, 15:15 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Speaker: Matthew Porges (SAME, University of Oxford)
Organising department: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Organiser contact email address: information@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Kate Atherton