Piro Rexhepi, "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route" (Duke UP, 2022)
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The Balkans and the Refugee Crisis
I think many people as I was will be impressed with the ways that you can navigate all of the different kind of languages, both literally and also kind of culturally in these places. You race is out the fact that Muslims and Roma communities came under structural violence. There was no other way to think of the issues that I was thinking of. To think through the regional perspective. And in particular to think through the spaces that the refugees passed by the encounters they had. The sort of coalescing of histories of refugees with local populations including people who had left the Balkans. At the end of the 19th or early 20th century as mohajirs or post Ottoman Muslim refugees that moved to Turkey
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