Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-425-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-425-2025
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17 Nov 2025
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“His dead body is in the water right now” – death, survival, and hypermobility along the Balkan Route

Philipp Themann
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The article examines why migrants die in the vast landscapes of the Balkans and describes these landscapes as elements of border protection. When fleeing through these landscapes, many refugees experienced great suffering, trauma, or even death. The reasons for this are the poor conditions in camps and illegal rejections at the borders. The article explains that these circumstances force migrants to take increasingly dangerous routes to reach western Europe or northern Europe.
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