Sanja Milivojevic's blog - Criminology crossroads

Pointing the finger of blame at the wrong (and easy) target Recent events that have seen 39 people die in a lorry in the United Kingdom prompted the debate on a hotly contested topic: human trafficking and modern slavery. In a recent interview to the Times, the independent anti-slavery commissioner called for a new approach to this abhorrent crime.  What happened in Essex was yet another human tragedy that quickly grabs the news headlines. However, it is also a tragedy that stays there for only a few days. We, the public, immediately look into the actors that are closely associated with or involved in the act. We focus on perpetrators (in this case, human smugglers) and victims. We want justice for the victims. We want punishment for those we deem so inhumane that we think we should lock them in and throw away the key. We streamline the complex world of poverty, abuse, exploitation, vulnerability, hopelessness and despair into a simple dichotomy of a good and a ba...

#GlobalClimateStrike and criminology Criminologists have long had an interest in climate change and green criminology. Works of Rob White, Reece Walters, and many others stressed the importance of understanding the links between human actions and the impact on our environment and potential criminal liability and accountability for unwanted consequences of such actions. Greta Thunberg is a household name now, and we follow her and many others in reclaiming our future. Today is the World #GlobalCrimateStrike day. Out we go!

Interview with director Raul-Paz Pastrana for Border Criminologies Blog (Oxford University) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6thzPJ6oQ&t=12s

‘Stealing the Fire’, 2.0 Style?:  Smartphones and Social Media in the Era of Illegalised Mobility Blog post / Border Criminologies, Oxford University  https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2019/05/stealing-fire-20

This book is a unique and original examination of borders and bordering practices in the Western Balkans prior to, during, and after the migrant "crisis" of the 2010s. Based on extensive, mixed-method, exploratory research in Serbia, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Kosovo, the book charts technological and human interventions deployed in this region that simultaneously enable and hinder the mobility projects of border crossers. Within the rich historical context of the Balkan Wars and subsequent displacement of many people from the region and beyond, this book discusses the types and locations of borders as well as their development, transformation, and impact on people on the move. These border crossers fall into three distinct categories: people from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia transiting the region; citizens of the Western Balkans seeking asylum and access to labour markets in the EU; and women border crossers. This book also maps border struggles that follow thes...

Article in my hometown newspapers

It has been 10 years and I still vividly remember that taxi trip from JFK to the International House, safely tucked between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue. I still remember the skyline with two towers of WTC piercing the clouds over Manhattan. I was a visiting scholar and Public Interest Law Fellow at Columbia University, excited and eager to explore everything New York has to offer. Coming from Serbia which just survived NATO bombing in 1999, I was also hoping for some stability. It would be a gross understatement to say that I was so looking forward to joining other fellows and students at Columbia University Law School. On the very last day of August, I visited the WTC with my friend and fellow from Russia, Anton Burkov. We went all the way to the top and admired the view. I still remember almost every face I saw that day: a young lift boy with high cheeks, a waitress that told us we can't go all the way in to the restaurant but that we can admire the view from aside... ...