Sources

ABOUT THE MAP

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• Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy [Researchers on the Border].
• Border Emergency Collective. (2022). Zone of hidden violence [film].
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• Czarnota, K., Dąbrowska, A., Fiałkowska, K., Karwan-Jastrzębska, J., Klaus, W., Kosowicz, A., Mandelt, M., Mazur, J., Mikulska-Jolles, A., & Wesołowski, F. (2021). Humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border. Grupa Granica.
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• The Decolonial Atlas.
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Texts:

Border crossing

• van Houtum, H. (2010). Human blacklisting: The global apartheid of the EU’s external border regime.Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28, 957–976.
• Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. (2018). The coloniality of migration and the “refugee crisis: on the asylum-migration nexus, the transatlantic white European settler colonialism-migration and racial capitalism. Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 34(1), 16–28.
• Linke, U. (2010). Fortress Europe: Globalization, militarization and the policing of interior borderlands. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 23-24,
• Melamed, J. (2015). Racial Capitalism. Critical Ethnic Studies, 1(1), 76–85.

Border technologies (camera)

• Aizeki, M., Mahmoudi, M., & Schupfer, C. (eds.). (2023). Resisting borders and technologies of violence. Haymarket Books.
• Benedicto, A. R., Akkerman, M., & Brunet, P. (2020). A walled world. Towards a global apartheid. Transnational Institute.
• Davis, A. (2015). Freedom is a constant struggle (F. Barat, ed.). Haymarket Books.

Camera trap

• Hossain, A. N. M., Barlow, A., Greenwood Barlow, C., Lynam, A. J., Chakma, S., & Savini, T. (2016). Assessing the efficacy of camera trapping as a tool for increasing detection rates of wildlife crime in tropical protected areas. Biological Conservation, 201, 314–319.
• Molnar, P. (2022). Territorial and digital borders and migrant vulnerability under a pandemic crisis. In A. Triandafyllidou (ed.), Migration and pandemics (pp. 45–64). Springer.
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• Wall, T., & Monahan, T. (2011). Surveillance and violence from afar: The politics of drones and liminal security-scapes. Theoretical Criminology, 15(3), 239–254.
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Cemetery

• Border Death Monitoring Group – BDMG. List of border deaths.
• De León, J. (2015). The land of open graves: Living and dying on the migrant trail. Oakland: University of California Press.
• Hameršak, M. Border deaths.
• Gündoğdu, A. (2024). Border deaths as forced disappearances: Frantz Fanon and the outlines of a critical phenomenology. Puncta, 5(3):12-41
• Prymaka-Oniszk, A. (2017). Bieżeństwo 1915. Zapomniani uchodźcy. Wydawnictwo Czarne.
• Winiarska, K. (2015). The virtual museum of Jewish history in Białowieża.

Concertina

• Dodds, P. (2024). Documenting border barriers. Borders in globalization review, 5(1), 55-65.
• Netz, R. (2004). Barbed wire: an ecology of modernity. Wesleyan University Press.
• Palęcka, A. (2024). No safe passage. Migrants’ deaths at the European Union-Belarusian border. Fundacja Ocalenie.
• Sennett, C., & Chambers, C. L. (2025). International border fences and walls negatively affect wildlife: a review. Biological Conservation, 302, 110957.

Forest

• De León, J. (2015). The land of open graves: Living and dying on the migrant trail. University of California Press.
• Kohn, E. (2013). How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. University of California Press.
• Schuppli, S. (2020). Material witness: media, forensics, evidence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Sundberg, J. (2011). ‘Diabolic caminos in the desert and cat fights on the río: A posthumanist political ecology of boundary enforcement in the United States-Mexico Borderlands’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101(2), 318 — 336.

Path

• Cohen, J. (2021). Border nation. A story of migration. Pluto Press.
• van Houtum, H. (2021). Beyond ‘borderism’: Overcoming discriminative b/ordering and Othering. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 112(1), 34–43.
• Walia, H. (2021). Border and rule: Rlobal migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism.Haymarket.

Pushback gate

• Border Violence Monitoring Network.
• I said „I want to stay in Poland” but they pushed me back. 12 months of the new government on the Polish-Belarusian border. (2024). We are Monitoring.
• Pepper spray in a bottle of water. Annual report 2023 on the Polish-Belarusian border. (2024). We Are Monitoring.
• Klaus, W. (2024). Wywózki (pushbacki) w świetle międzynarodowych standardów praw człowieka. Konsorcjum Migracyjne.

River

• Heller, Ch. i Pezzani, L. (2017). Liquid traces: investigating the deaths of migrants at the EU's maritime frontier. In: N. De Genova (ed.), The Borders of "Europe": Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (pp. 95-119). Duke University Press.

Station, night, and pushback camps

• Appadurai, A. (1986). Introduction: Commodities and the politics of value. In A. Appadurai (ed.), The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective (pp. 3–63). Cambridge University Press.
• Auerbach, R. (1946). Lament rzeczy martwych. Przełom, 1946(2), 6–8.
• Auerbach, R. (1949). Lacrimae rerum. Przełom, 1949(20), 12–13.
• Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
• Brown, B. (2001). Thing theory. Critical Inquiry, 28(1), 1–22.
• Goldhahn, A., & Ricciardo, M. (2021). Objects of migration – photo-objects of art history: Encounters in an archive. Visual Anthropology, 34(4), 339–367.
• Judzińska, N., & Sendyka, R. (2022). The crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border: Sites and things.Sprawy Narodowościowe: Seria nowa, 2022(54), Article 2845.
• Lauser, A. (2022). Part IV Taking and making place: Engaging things: Introduction. In F. Yi-Neumann, A. Lauser, A. Fuhse, & P. J. Bräunlein (eds.), Material culture and (forced) migration: materializing the transient (pp. 273–281). UCL Press.
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• Memou, A. (2019). Spectacular images of the “refugee crisis”. Photographies, 12(1), 81–97.

Swamps and alder forests

• De León, J. (2015). The land of open graves: Living and dying on the migrant trail. Oakland: University of California Press.
• Laakkonen, V. (2022). Deaths, disappearances, borders: Migrant disappearability as a technology of deterrence. Political Geography, 99, 102767.
• We have only one war, which is immigration, which is you. The Policy of Pushbacks and border forces violence on the Polish-Belarusian Border. (2024). We Are Monitoring.

The Wall

• Balibar, É. (2018). Reinventing the stranger: Walls all over the world, and how to tear them down.symploke, 25, 25 - 41.
• Brown, W. (2010). Walled states, waning sovereignty. Zone Books.
• De Genova, N. (2013). Spectacles of migrant ‘illegality’: The scene of exclusion, the obscene of inclusion. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(7), 1180–1198.
• Ng, A. (2017). Re-thinking border building. Assemble Papers.

The wall and nature

• Aziz, M. A., Shamsuddoha, M., Maniruddin, M., Morshed, H. M., Sarker, R., & Islam, M. A. (2016). Elephants, border fence and human-elephant conflict in northern Bangladesh: Implications for bilateral collaboration towards elephant conservation. Gajah, 45, 12–19.
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• Środowisko naukowe. (2022, January 31). List środowiska naukowego do KE ws. budowy muru na granicy polsko-białoruskiej. Nauka dla Przyrody. Accessed 12 January 2025 from
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