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Tallying the human suffering at the hands of the European border regime

“It’s so hard to accept that there’s no trace. Did the sea swallow them?” - Relative of one of the missing women from a ship that disappeared in January 2025

Clothes in the river, backpacks on fire: The visibility of border crossings and illegal pushbacks at the Croatian-Bosnian border

While they generally prefer to conduct them in secrecy, Croatian border agents intentionally make pushbacks “visible” to further dehumanise and racialise people on the move.

How Italy’s Unlawful “Albania Model” sets the stage for the EU’s new Return Regulation