Lost in securitization: migration, race, and death at Europe’s eastern border

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Narkowicz, K. 2026. Lost in securitization: migration, race, and death at Europe’s eastern border. Berliner Gazette.
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TitleLost in securitization: migration, race, and death at Europe’s eastern border
AuthorsNarkowicz, K.
Abstract

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the ‘border crisis’ in Poland’s eastern borderlands and, consequently, the eastern border of the European Union. Kasia Narkowicz examines this crisis within the broader context of the political economy of migration and traces its roots to various forms of intersecting racialized violence.

Keywordsmigration; Poland; borders; border criminology; race; racism; Belarus
Sustainable Development Goals10 Reduced inequalities
Middlesex University ThemeHealth & Wellbeing
Research GroupCente for Social and Criminological Research (CSCR)
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PublisherBerliner Gazette
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Deposited13 May 2026
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