{"content":[{"text":"anything wrong. They’re racists. That’s the way it is” ​ - Incident report from January 28, \n 2020","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.091342,"width":0.687794,"height":0.03470599999999999}},{"text":"The use of technology in pushback practices has only contributed to ease in which these racist \n and repressive procedures are carried out against people-on-the-move in the region. \n Furthermore, devices like drones, thermal imaging cameras, and vehicle scanners have been \n weaponised against people on the move, making them easier to detect and thus compounding \n their vulnerability and the dangers they face.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.148417,"width":0.7641119999999999,"height":0.09126700000000001}},{"text":"Although we will not delve into this topic in depth here, it is also worth pointing out how the \n suppression and destruction of technology by state forces plays out within these racist \n procedures. Intercepted migrants are regularly stripped of their belongings by Croatian \n authorities particularly passports and other forms of ID, cell phones and power banks and are \n summarily expelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Migrants rely on cell phone GPS as a tool to \n navigate the 10-20 day hike from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Schengen Border, a distance \n between 50-150km. Through GPS navigation they look for the most remote and desolate path \n as a strategy to avoid Croatian authorities. This use of GPS is used to find a path that is “safest” \n insofar as individuals may avoid contact with authorities, however these paths also increase the \n likelihood of death and injury in their own ways, such as through ​mudslides​, ​mines​, and ​river \n crossings​.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.262054,"width":0.764292,"height":0.21324099999999996}},{"text":"A phone and a powerbank is not only a navigation tool. People on the move use it to backup \n their identification papers and maintain contact with their families. Croatian police confiscating \n their belongings is stripping migrants of basic means of human existence and they are in effect \n grounded and some resort to crime as a telephone and a powerbank is the prerequisite to reach \n the Schengen area and to apply for asylum. Many migrants live in makeshift camps and have to \n resort to crime in order to get the means to sustain themsel. In this send, the suppression and \n destruction of technology by Croatian authorities plays an important and complex dynamic in the \n oppression of people-on-the-move in the Western Balkans.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.489326,"width":0.764478,"height":0.14808499999999997}},{"text":"The ​suppression and technology ​by Croatian authorities ​is contrasted with the aggressive \n deployments of technology by these same officials in order to increase the effectiveness of their \n illegal push-back apparatus. In this sense Croatian authorities are employing sophisticated \n methods of technology (which is overwhelmingly financed through EU mechanisms) as a means \n to pursue, apprehend, and illegally return people-on-the-move to Bosinia and Serbia.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.659523,"width":0.764311,"height":0.09152500000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}