Bojan Mucko is a cultural anthropologist and new media artist interested in the overlappings of anthropology and socially engaged contemporary art. Since 2020, he has worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research and was part of the project European Regime of Irregularized Migrations on the Periphery: From Ethnography to Glossary (ERIM).

‍Marijana Hameršak is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. She is the author of the books Pričalice (Taletellers, 2011), Uvod u dječju književnost (Introduction to Children’s Literature, with Dubravka Zima, 2015), and Frakture dječje književnosti (Fractures of Children's Literature, 2021). Hameršak has also worked on several edited volumes, most recently Ekonomija i književnost / Economy and Literature (with Maša Kolanović and Lana Molvarec, 2022) and Balkanska ruta (Balkan Route, with Iva Pleše and Tea Škokić, 2024). She had participated in different research projects and was the principal investigator of the project ERIM - The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery of the EU: from Ethnography to Keywords (HRZZ, 2020-2024).

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In this session, we will engage with ethnographic research on illegalized movements of people in the transnational space that includes Croatia and the surrounding countries. Starting from the experiences of the recently concluded research project ERIM, we will discuss ethnographically based keywording and keywords (terms and images) used around migration at Europe’s borders. The focus will be on two ERIM publications — e-ERIM: An Online Network of Keywords of the European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery of the EU (https://e-erim.ief.hr/?locale=en) and the book Keywords of the Balkan Route — as well as on ethical and methodological issues, structures, infrastructures, and actors involved, and problems of scientific, media, and artistic representation. The discussion of keywords will be followed by reflections on multimodal ethnographic research into the everyday life of people on the move who were stuck in Bihać, conducted between 2020-2021.