Migrants walk along the railway at the Serbian border with Hungary near Roszke, on 10 Sept. 2015. Darko Vojinovic/Press Association. All rights reserved.
The past year of migration through the Balkans was both a driving force and result of a number of fractures, all of which cannot be covered in a single article. But to understand the political importance of the recent migration movements along the so-called Balkan route, as well as the lessons they hold for today’s migration activists, we must at least explore the core developments that have taken place over the past year. I will do so with reference to the political project Moving Europe, and this article is partly a product of collective discussions within this project.
Moving Europe was started by bordermonitoring.eu, w2eu (Welcome to Europe) and FFM (Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration) in collaboration with the NGO Medico International. It is embedded in a network that has existed for several years and that supports people travelling towards Europe, both by monitoring the external EU borders and by collecting and re-distributing information to people on the move.
