20.500.12556/RUL-175785 Separated in death border deaths and agency of the dead on the Balkan migratory trail Over the last decade, border deaths have become a very present part of the migration landscape along the socalled Balkan route. Focusing on these deaths, this article shows how they involve striking separation of identity (name, biography) and body. Moreover, we argue that this separation is both a product of the migration politics and border regime and a product of the agency of the dead. On one side, due to the physical dis-tance, lack of information, and in some cases disappearances, relatives struggle to mourn the deceased without being in touch with the body. On the other side, due to the literal lack of name, when the deceased are unidentified, locals in places of death struggle with how to take care of and pay tribute to the deceased without knowing the name or the social being of the deceased. Based on our ethnographic research of border deaths along the socalled Balkan route from 2020 onwards, we analyze how the agency of the dead emerges from relatives, mourning while searching for the body, and locals paying tribute while searching for the name. This agency manifests through diverse acts—from identification and repatriation efforts or appeals to international bodies, to the develop-ment of burial protocols and commemorative practices. In this context, the border regime, through its racialised logic of division and hierarchization, produces and main-tains this split, intensifying the social disappearance of migrants. Yet paradoxically, this enforced separation also generates forms of resistance and increasing political consciousness among both relatives of the deceased and local witnesses to border deaths. V migracijski krajini vzdolž tako imenovane balkanske poti je v zadnjem desetletju zelo veliko smrti na mejah. V članku se bova osredotočili na te smrti in pokazali, da je z njimi povezana presenetljiva ločitev identitete (v smislu imena in biografije) in telesa. Pri tem bova dokazovali, da je ta ločitev posledica migracijskih politik in mejnega režima, pa tudi delovanja umrlih. Na eni strani sorodniki zaradi fizične oddaljenosti, pomanjkanja informacij in v nekaterih primerih izginotij s težavo žalujejo za pokojnim, ne da bi imeli stik z njegovim oziroma njenim telesom. Na drugi strani pa lokalni prebivalci zaradi dejanske odsotnosti imena, ker pokojni niso identificirani, na krajih smrti težko ustrezno poskrbijo za pokojne in jim izkažejo spoštovanje, ne da bi poznali njihovo ime, njihov družbeni obstoj. Na podlagi etnografskega raziskovanja smrti na mejah vzdolž t. i. balkanske poti, ki se mu posvečava od 2020 dalje, analizirava, kako delovanje mrtvih izhaja iz prizadevanj žalujočih sorodnikov, ki iščejo telesa, in lokalnih prebivalcev, ki pri izkazovanju spoštovanja umrlemu iščejo njegovo ime. Delovanje umrlih se tako kaže na različne načine – od prizadevanj za identifikacijo in repatriacijo ter pritožb mednarodnim organom do oblikovanja protokolov pokopa in spominskih praks. Pri tem mejni režim s svojo rasizirano logiko ločevanja in hierarhičnosti ustvarja in ohranja to ločitev med imenom in telesom, s čimer se družbeno izginjanje migrantov še krepi. Paradoksalno pa ta prisilna ločitev ustvarja tudi oblike upora in širitve politične zavesti, tako med svojci umrlih kot tudi med lokalnimi pričami smrti na mejah. ethnology social anthropology Balkan route European migration politics border regime border deaths body name agency of dead relatives locals Croatia Slovenia etnologija socialna antropologija balkanska migracijska pot evropska migracijska politika mejni režimi smrti na mejah telo ime delovanje mrtvih sorodniki lokalno prebivalstvo Hrvaška Slovenija true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2025-11-07 13:46:33 2025-11-07 13:46:39 2025-12-15 03:51:35 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 100-123 no. 2 Vol. 31 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 314.15:39(4) 2232-3716 10.5281/zenodo.17477561 256347395 Hamersak_Lipovec_Cebron_Separated_in_death_Border_deaths_and_agency_of_the_dead_on_the_Balkan_migratory_trail.pdf Hamersak_Lipovec_Cebron_Separated_in_death_Border_deaths_and_agency_of_the_dead_on_the_Balkan_migratory_trail.pdf 1 CFB735D91E5DF30753F746122549E3E1 4e2ee89463a282865f157f9b7483b759b479faf215bddfd3df9a6c15a2c53160 893109e3-bbd7-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=221651 https://anthropological-notebooks.zrc-sazu.si/Notebooks/article/view/755/535 1 7bb8ccd8-bbd7-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=221650 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0