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A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary, became the main entry route. Based in Budapest for more than three decades, Nick Thorpe was perfectly placed to cover the birth of the route, its heyday, and the attempts of numerous states to close it. This is his intimate account of the daily lives of those stuck in razor-wire enclosures or on the move along forest tracks, railway lines, motorways—and of the smugglers, border police, and political leaders who help, exploit, or obstruct them. He challenges those who demonize or glorify migration, visits the arrivals in their new environment, and studies their impact on the countries which welcomed them with open arms or hesitation

A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary, became the main entry route. Based in Budapest for more than three decades, Nick Thorpe was perfectly placed to cover the birth of the route, its heyday, and the attempts of numerous states to close it. This is his intimate account of the daily lives of those stuck in razor-wire enclosures or on the move along forest tracks, railway lines, motorways--and of the smugglers, border police, and political leaders who help, exploit, or obstruct them. He challenges those who demonize or glorify migration, visits the arrivals in their new environment, and studies their impact on the countries which welcomed them with open arms or hesitation.

In this paper I assess two archaeological phenomena for Bronze to Iron Age Britain: the expanding scale of conflict over this period and the practice of what is often called deviant burial, and I consider their possible connection. Such burials may relate to a wider pattern of social violence, given that community setbacks need to be explained away, perhaps requiring scapegoats to take the blame, who met their death as a result of being identified as 'the enemy within'. Although burials with weaponry occurred in the Early Bronze Age, there is little evidence of conflict and few deviant burials. The Later Bronze Age and the Iron Age, by contrast, provide significant evidence at varying scales of both warfare and deviant burial practices. ; In diesem Artikel bewerte ich zwei archäologische Erscheinungen im bronze- bis eisenzeitlichen Britannien, nämlich das zunehmende Ausmaß des Konflikts im Laufe dieses Zeitraumes und der Brauch der – häufig so genannten – irregulären Bestattungen, und erörtere ihre mögliche Verbindung. Solche Bestattungen könnten in Beziehung zu einem breiteren Muster sozialer Gewalt stehen, da die Rückschritte einer Gemeinschaft erklärt werden müssen, vielleicht mittels Sündenböcke, die die Schuld auf sich nehmen und deren Tod auf ihre Identifizierung als "Feind von Innen" zurückzuführen ist. Obwohl in der Frühbronzezeit Bestattungen mit Waffen vorkommen, gibt es wenig Nachweise von Konflikten und wenige irreguläre Bestattungen. Im Gegensatz dazu gibt es in der späteren Bronzezeit und in der Eisenzeit signifikante Hinweise auf unterschiedliche Ausmaße sowohl an Krieg als auch an irregulären Bestattungen.