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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Refugee Studies Année : 2021

Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route

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In 2015, the mass mobilities of refugees, many from Syria, towards Western Europe, were presented as a crisis threatening the integrity of nation-states. Whilst governments along the so-called ‘Balkan route’ increasingly responded with exclusionary measures, large-scale solidarity movements emerged and played a key role in assisting refugees in their journeys and settlement. All along the route, activists and volunteers (sometimes in loose collaboration with official relief organizations) established solidarity communities that tasked themselves with assisting people on the move. Their activities have been underpinned by discourses of solidarity and hospitality reflecting deep-seated popular beliefs about displacement, sanctuary and refuge—alternative narratives of what is today called asylum. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with solidarity and refugee groups in Greece, Serbia and Hungary, I examine the practices and discourses of refugees and those mobilized to support them along the ‘Balkan route’.
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hal-04345344 , version 1 (14-12-2023)

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Céline Cantat. Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route. Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021, 34 (2), pp.1348-1369. ⟨10.1093/jrs/feab010⟩. ⟨hal-04345344⟩
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