{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69681243a0a046a1f31cf703/696815fd90f7d9d87fd14e7c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Welcome to Invisible Borders","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69681243a0a046a1f31cf703/1768428412222-391765cc-1347-4724-a56b-3a69e7221de9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this premiere episode of <em>Invisible Borders</em>, we take a step back to explore the bigger picture: how Europe’s borders and surveillance technologies work together to maintain systems of power.</p><p><br></p><p>We focus on the Balkan Route to reveal how, funded by the EU, migration is increasingly framed as a security issue and transformed into a market for tech companies. Along the way, we unpack concepts like techno-solutionism, postcolonial legacies of surveillance, and the political economies driving the border surveillance industry.</p>","author_name":"Border Violence Monitoring Network"}