My research focuses on ethnography and irregualarized migration, in particular on border deaths and disappearances. I am interested in the problems of representing the deceased in numerical form or through lists, and explore local and family responses to these violent, premature deaths. I also study refugee graves, both in contemporary contexts and in the past, particularly from the Second World War. Besides, I am involved in documenting deaths along the so-called Balkan Route through the 4D Database project and I am active in commemorating border deaths, as well as in exploring connections between literature and border deaths.

Hameršak, M. & Lingelbach, J. (2025) ‘El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia’, Memory Studies, 18:5, 1189-1213.

Hameršak, M. & Lipovec-Čebron, U. (2025) ‘Separated in death: Border deaths and agency of the dead on the Balkan migratory trail’, Anthropological Notebooks,31:1,  100-123.

Hameršak, M. (2024) ‘Border Deaths’, at e-ERIM: an online network of keywords of the European irregularized migration regime at the periphery of the EU