Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?

The RIC itself was a heterogeneous organization, which involved agents such as Frontex (the EU's border guard authority), the Greek Ministry of Migration and the Greek Police, the UNHCR, the International Organization of Migration (IOM), and medical charities (Pollozek and Passoth 2019). If contemporary mass migration from the Global South to the Global North is one of the defining features of our moment, a complex development that can be seen as shaping a new nomadic age (Czaika and Haas 2015; Hamilakis 2018), then how can we approach and how can we understand the "refugee camp" as a key node and a primary material artifact of this phenomenon? The late governor of Moria, Yannis Balbakakis (appointed by the previous, left-wing Greek government), a retired military officer, used to say often in media interviews that there are fifty-eight nationalities ( I ethnikotites i ) in Moria, something that he repeated during our conversation in July 2017. [Extracted from the article]