Publications

‘Counter-geographies of the Refugee Balkan Route’ book series

This book series (Edward Elgar Publishing) offers a set of critical geographical perspectives on the ‘making of the Balkan Route’ and of its formal and informal spatialities.

Thinking Like a Route. Counter-geographies of Informal Migration in the Balkans.
Edited by Claudio Minca, Yolanda Weima. 2026.
A Spatial Theory of the Camp. Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State.
Richard Carter-White, Claudio Minca. 2025.

Articles and book chapters

Walking the Map? Reflections on Counter-Mapping and Critical Cartographies of the Balkan Route
Sebastian Cobarrubias, Claudio Minca. (2026). Area. Volume 58.
The Politics of Infrastructural Ruination. (Re)bordering Practices in Time of ‘Emergency’ In Trieste, Italy
Francesco Marchi, Claudio Minca, Timothy Raeymaekers. (2026). Geopolitics.
Il “corpo notturno” dell’infrastruttura. Riflessioni geografiche su colonialità e differenziale di mobilità nel borderscape di Trieste
Francesco Marchi, Claudio Minca. (2026). Rivista Geografica Italiana. Volume 2.
Biopolitics, sovereign power and mobility at the intersections between tourism and informal migration along the Balkan Route
Claudio Minca. (2026). Hospitality & Society. Volume 16.
Practices of Control and the Production of (Im)Mobility in Una-Sana Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Roberta Gentili. (2026). Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA. Volume 74.
Geographies of migrant mobile containment along the Balkan Route.
Lucija Klun Turk, Claudio Minca. (2026). Political Geography. Volume 129.
Migration, the Archive, and the Map.
Ettore Asoni. (2025). Geography Compass, 19: e70040.

Other essays and interventions

Reading Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land, Noam Leshem’s, Chicago University Press (2025)
Mitch Rose, Oliver Belcher, Claudio Minca, Merav Amir, Noam Leshem. (2026). Political Geography.
Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement, 25 years on.
Yolanda Weima et al. (2026). Political Geography. Volume 126.