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The Everyday Violence of the “Balkan Route”: Migrant Intimate Traces in and around the City of Trieste.

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Titel: The Everyday Violence of the “Balkan Route”: Migrant Intimate Traces in and around the City of Trieste.
Autoren: Bergesio, Noemi1 (AUTHOR) noemibergesio@gmail.com
Quelle: Antipode. Oct2025, p1. 23p. 3 Illustrations.
Schlagwörter: *RIGHT of asylum, *IMMIGRATION enforcement, *IMMIGRANTS, *CITIES & towns, *XENOPHOBIA, *HOSTILITY
Geografische Kategorien: TRIESTE (Italy), ITALY, BALKAN Peninsula
Abstract (English): Since 2015, the Italy–Slovenia border and the city of Trieste have become key points on the so‐called Balkan Route, contributing to this border's stratified history. This article proposes the concept of “intimate traces”—such as discarded objects and bodily waste—as a novel perspective to analyse the everyday violence to which migrants are subjected upon applying for asylum in Italy. Drawing on recurring periods of fieldwork in 2022–2023, I reveal how intimate traces expose the everyday violence that works towards the debilitation of migrants' physical and psychological condition—instrumental to reinforcing technologies of migration control. At the same time, intimate traces become a testament—a way for migrants to engage with the territory they traverse, to become part of the stratifications and re‐materialisations of the border. Concurrently, intimate traces are often co‐opted into anti‐migration narratives to divert the attention from the local government's inaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Italian): Riassunto Dal 2015, il confine tra Italia e Slovenia e la città di Trieste sono diventati punti chiave della cosiddetta rotta balcanica, contribuendo alla storia stratificata di questo confine. Questo articolo propone il concetto di “tracce intime”—come oggetti abbandonati e rifiuti corporei—come una nuova prospettiva per analizzare la violenza quotidiana a cui sono sottoposti i migranti richiedenti asilo in Italia. Basandosi su periodi ricorrenti di lavoro sul campo nel 2022–2023, l'articolo rivela come le tracce intime mettano a nudo la violenza quotidiana che contribuisce a indebolire le condizioni fisiche e psicologiche dei migranti, fondamentale per rafforzare le tecnologie di controllo della migrazione. Allo stesso tempo, le tracce intime diventano una testimonianza, un modo per i migranti di interagire con il territorio che attraversano, di diventare parte delle stratificazioni e delle rimaterializzazioni del confine. Allo stesso tempo, le tracce intime sono spesso cooptate nelle narrazioni anti‐migrazione per distogliere l'attenzione dall'incapacità e non‐volontà di azione del governo locale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Datenbank: Academic Search Index
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Abstract:Since 2015, the Italy–Slovenia border and the city of Trieste have become key points on the so‐called Balkan Route, contributing to this border's stratified history. This article proposes the concept of “intimate traces”—such as discarded objects and bodily waste—as a novel perspective to analyse the everyday violence to which migrants are subjected upon applying for asylum in Italy. Drawing on recurring periods of fieldwork in 2022–2023, I reveal how intimate traces expose the everyday violence that works towards the debilitation of migrants' physical and psychological condition—instrumental to reinforcing technologies of migration control. At the same time, intimate traces become a testament—a way for migrants to engage with the territory they traverse, to become part of the stratifications and re‐materialisations of the border. Concurrently, intimate traces are often co‐opted into anti‐migration narratives to divert the attention from the local government's inaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:00664812
DOI:10.1111/anti.70084