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We seek to appoint a PhD candidate who will investigate the dynamics of migratory movements along the Balkan Route, and what forms of social movements and citizenship these movements engender - locally, nationally, and internationally. Theoretically aimed at the intersection of the two forms of movements, this project will make an ethnographic intervention to the hypothesis put forward recently by scholars of migration, whether and how we might think of migration as a social movement in its own right. Focusing on makeshift ‘camps’, grassroots humanitarian organisations, municipal offices, and townscapes around the Croatian-Bosnian border, this project will study these dynamics in one of the world’s most difficult and volatile migration bottlenecks in the present.
The candidate will conduct multi-sited ethnographic research in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Croatian-Bosnian border, in the migration bottleneck where the movements intersect. Although the project will be located primarily in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina, it will trace the movements to other nodes along the route in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and beyond. The project will draw on the methods of participant observation, ethnographic interviews, urban ethnography, content analysis, and visual anthropology. It will also engage with the recent turn to the materiality of clandestine migration.
This project will be embedded in the Department of Cultural Anthropology’s research program Sovereignty and Social Contestation in Complex Societies (SoSCo), and the candidate will be supervised by Prof. Rebecca Bryant (promotor) and Dr. David Henig (co-promotor). Read more about the project here (.pdf).
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