On April 3, 2025, Emina Bužinkić, PhD, participated in the online event “Border Regimes as Geopolitics” organized by the Center for Global Migration Studies of the University of Göttingen. The event, which was held via Zoom and in English, brought together leading scholars who examined the shifting dynamics of European border regimes in the context of global geopolitical change.
Alongside Delft University of Technology scholar Bernd Kasparek, PhD, who spoke on the transformation of the Schengen system, Dr. Bužinkić presented her lecture titled “At the Edges of Europe: Race, Borders, and the Balkans Under the New Pact”. Drawing on a decade of migration governance in the Balkans, her presentation critically analyzed the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum through the lens of peripheral and semi-peripheral states. She highlighted how contemporary border regimes reproduce racialized exclusion and deepen the externalization of Europe’s borders, particularly in countries such as Croatia and other non-EU Balkan states.
The panel provided valuable insights into the intersections of race, geopolitics, and migration control, and contributed to ongoing scholarly and policy debates on European integration and justice in migration governance.
