Notices by Vjosa Musliu (vjosamusliu@mastodon.social)

What is the point? Polly Pallister-Wilkins & Brunilda Pali's brilliant reflection on the institutional apathy and compliance in the genocide. https://www.securitypraxis.eu/what-is-the-point/

My edited volume (together with Itziar Mujika Chao) "Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding. Understanding the role of women in making the state in Kosovo" was chosen to go Open Access even before the publication date!

Link to read and download the book for free https://www.routledge.com/Feminist-Encounters-in-Statebuilding-The-Role-of-Women-in-Making-the-State/Musliu-Chao/p/book/9781032536484

Read novelist Lana Bastašić's next blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship. https://lithub.com/read-novelist-lana-bastasics-blazing-response-to-yet-another-act-of-literary-censorship/

To my fellow academics & academic institutions who are - still - comfortable in their silence: replace 'literature' with 'academia'.

Today in Brussels: “EU’s appeasement has only emboldened Vucic and his proxies to incite more violence and instability in Kosovo”.

Grateful to the student associations in Brussels and the (young) Kosovo women for doing the heavy lifting to make this happen.

Very happy to have contributed with (an angry) chapter on borders & visas for this fantastic book by Olga Buryuk & Ladan Rahbari.

You can download & read it open access here: https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0331.pdf

Had a great talk for the podcast of @RevDem2020 on Europe as a performative act in the Balkans, hierarchies and Balkanist discourses 🎙️ https://revdem.ceu.edu/2023/04/28/navigating-hierarchies-and-balkanist-discourses/

Glad to see the book published with 'Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding' continues to generate such discussions.

Twintig jaar geleden zei men dat de toekomst van de westelijke Balkanlanden binnen de Europese Unie lag. Vandaag behoren deze landen nog steeds niet tot de EU.

#VUB-politicoloog
VjosaMusliu geeft tekst en uitleg in deze video van Universiteit Vlaanderen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bt0mck7IsA&feature=youtu.be

If the horrendous developments of the past 5+ years in the UK were to have happened *anywhere* in the "Global South", I can only imagine the volumes of special issues & conference themes on “authoritarian/fascistic turn”.

Amazing how certain places are exempted from such (academic) scrutiny.

Had the pleasure to briefly talk to @bbcworld on Kosovo and its rocky path to independence https://bit.ly/3k5rrvz

#Kosova15

Our reporting shows that many EU countries outsourced their visa services to 3 private companies.

What we don't know yet:

How do EU govts use the data of Kosovar (& other non-EU) citizens?
Who oversees them when they breach the Visa Code?
Why Germany outsourced its visa services to a company with HQ in Turkey & Russia?

Read the story in @euractiv https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/investigation-reveals-violations-of-eu-visa-code-for-kosovo-citizens/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

And the full investigative story here https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/we-are-in-a-real-ghetto/

And while EU embassies and private visa companies shift the responsibility to one another, Kosovars continue to go through lengthy, expensive & degrading visa procedures, only to be rejected in the end.

The lack of accountability and checks in outsourced visa centres turns them into spaces of senseless, banal and normalized violence.

Many EU countries have outsourced their visa services entirely to 3 private companies (!) many of which are unclear if not dubious about the harvesting of data of 600.000 Schengen visa applicants from Kosovo. But who cares about GDPR when it comes to non-EU barbarians?

Devastating as the isolation of Kosovars is, this story shows how EU embassies continuously violate the Visa Code with Kosovar applicants. The reporting of Aulonë Kadriu w/ a contribution of my own shows the ethical & financial maze of the visa process. https://tinyurl.com/2p8vanc8
Many thanks to Thomas Tombal & @aral for their input!

Reason for my mom's 1-week visit to🇧🇪, you ask? Seeing her granddaughter, a🇧🇪national of two academic parents working in🇧🇪universities (not that that should mean anything).

The demand for 'others' to prove their humanity speaks about the (in)humanity of those demanding it.

The Belgian visa office in Kosovo will not even allow my mom (a teacher in her mid-60s) to apply for a visa, before - wait for it - the Federal Asylum Office in Brussels approves her file first. The feds, we are told, will take 3-4 months to review her file.

@aral @EU_Commission
Belgium...why am I not surprised? Sorry to hear this Aral. Hope you made it with no massive headache.