Combining conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, this book analyses games and push-backs, which are vectors to migrants' border crossing attempts and violence that aims to deter their journeys at the Bosnian-Croatian border.

Karolína Augustová is Lecturer in International Relations and Sociology at Northumbria University. Her ethnographic research examines the European Union's migration externalisation in (post-)conflict zones, border violence, and human smuggling, which has been published in Geopolitics, Antipode, and Trends in Organised Crime among other journals. Her articles and commentaries have been also published in public outlets, including The Guardian, Politico, Aljazeera, and Open Democracy.

1.Introduction 2.Imagining the Balkan Route 3.Race, gender and border violence 4.Push and Back 5.The everyday matters 6.The game not over Bibliography