Le geografie variabili dei confini europei nei Balcani tra umanitarismo, solidarietà e contestazione. Luoghi, attori e strategie alternative

This article examines the shifting geographies of European borders along the Western Balkans a decade after the so-called ‘long summer of migration’. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic research conducted in several Balkan border cities and in Trieste, it analyses how EU policies of securitisation and externalisation produce invisible borders, lawless zones and structural violence. At the same time, the article explores the emergence of civic solidarity, humanitarian practices and activist networks in response. These are conceptualised as transnational entanglements that challenge the idea of fixed migration routes and borders.