Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention 2026: Zuzanna Samson, for “The (border)zones of death: Tracing the Socio-Political Afterlife of Migrants on the Eastern EU Land Borders.”

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Honorable Mention: Zuzanna Samson (European University Institute), “The (border)zones of death: Tracing the Socio-Political Afterlife of Migrants on the Eastern EU Land Borders”

Selection Committee:
Antonia Jülich (Chair), Harvard University
Devon Cantwell-Chavez, University of Copenhagen
Jose Perez, Texas A&M University – San Antonio

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