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Beyond East and West: Solidarity Politics and the Absent/Present State in the Balkans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2017

Jessica Greenberg  and
Ivana Spasić
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Abstract

In this piece, we develop a more complex picture of the East-West divisions that have characterized much analysis of the region since the crisis began. By examining how differently positioned actors have responded, the migration flows become a heuristic for other important but less visible processes in post-socialist state formation and Euro-integration. We use the complexity of Serbia's reception as an empirical ground to create a new analytic framework that moves beyond over-simplified dichotomies. Doing this allows us to bring seemingly unrelated kinds of political action into the same frame to reveal an emerging trend in citizen and noncitizen political engagement.

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Critical Forum: The East European Response to the 2015 Migration Crisis
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Slavic Review , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , Summer 2017 , pp. 315 - 326
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2017 

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