Tesi etd-05162023-112545
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Tipo di tesi
Corso Ordinario Secondo Livello
Autore
MOLTEDO, ADELE
URN
etd-05162023-112545
Titolo
Border imaginaries in Calais: everyday practices and narratives of resistance
Struttura
Cl. Sc. Sociali - Scienze Politiche
Corso di studi
SCIENZE POLITICHE - SCIENZE POLITICHE
Commissione
Presidente Prof. STRAZZARI, FRANCESCO
Relatore Dott.ssa BERLINGOZZI, LAURA
Membro Prof. NATALI, DAVID
Membro Prof. SOMMARIO, EMANUELE GIUSEPPE
Membro Prof. BRESSANELLI, EDOARDO
Relatore Dott.ssa BERLINGOZZI, LAURA
Membro Prof. NATALI, DAVID
Membro Prof. SOMMARIO, EMANUELE GIUSEPPE
Membro Prof. BRESSANELLI, EDOARDO
Parole chiave
- Nessuna parola chiave trovata
Data inizio appello
12/06/2023;
Disponibilità
completa
Riassunto analitico
This thesis deals with the imaginaries of the border that are created at the periphery of Europe, through everyday practices and narratives, by the actors that challenge the exclusionary status quo to provide care to the people on the move. It is a step towards a decentralisation of narratives and imaginaries, that strives to understand whether these “outsider” accounts may hold relevance for central policymaking. The question is born out of academic and social curiosity and will for action.
European policymaking and governance of its external and internal frontiers have been based on notions of securitisation and emergency for at least the past 10 years, and notwithstanding this, the death toll in the Mediterranean keeps rising and living standards at the frontiers are abysmal. However, there exist realities which defy this regime and strive to care for those people who daily cross and get stuck at European borders. In this thesis I study the European border regime from the perspective of the autonomous solidarity networks which operate at the European frontier, and in particular in Calais (France), hence moving beyond the militarised and humanitarian border frameworks that have received more attention in the academic literature. I ask how actors involved in the radical reimagining of Europe’s internal and external borders reconfigure the infrastructures of these borders through the provision of a form of care which is not built on preconceived understandings of vulnerability and guilt; and whether what we witness here makes it possible to imagine an alternative management of borders, predicated not on the limited emotional availability of humanitarianism, but rather on more radical understandings of care and responsibility. In order to answer these questions, I map the realities of support to people on the move present in Calais, in order to classify them between autonomous solidarity networks and humanitarian enterprises, according to indicators such as complicity with authorities, (de)politicisation of border management, solidarity with other struggles, etc. Once this is done, I analyse the narratives and practices of the autonomous networks; through fieldwork, I observed visually how they make material changes to the landscape of borders, making them more liveable for people on the move, hence defying the present border regime. Through an analysis of their social media presence, I found how they present themselves to the outside and what theoretical narratives they present regarding the border regime. From this analysis I formulate a hypothesis as to whether and how these networks represent a valid, long-term and sustainable alternative to the present border regime, based on notions of care and responsibility towards the other. Some of the most prominent ethical issues of this thesis have arisen from dealing with vulnerable populations, avoiding depictions of white saviourism, and the issue of “giving something back:” I have tried to employ participatory action research methods in order to control for these issues, and hence blurring the line between “subject” (for lack of a better term) and researcher.
European policymaking and governance of its external and internal frontiers have been based on notions of securitisation and emergency for at least the past 10 years, and notwithstanding this, the death toll in the Mediterranean keeps rising and living standards at the frontiers are abysmal. However, there exist realities which defy this regime and strive to care for those people who daily cross and get stuck at European borders. In this thesis I study the European border regime from the perspective of the autonomous solidarity networks which operate at the European frontier, and in particular in Calais (France), hence moving beyond the militarised and humanitarian border frameworks that have received more attention in the academic literature. I ask how actors involved in the radical reimagining of Europe’s internal and external borders reconfigure the infrastructures of these borders through the provision of a form of care which is not built on preconceived understandings of vulnerability and guilt; and whether what we witness here makes it possible to imagine an alternative management of borders, predicated not on the limited emotional availability of humanitarianism, but rather on more radical understandings of care and responsibility. In order to answer these questions, I map the realities of support to people on the move present in Calais, in order to classify them between autonomous solidarity networks and humanitarian enterprises, according to indicators such as complicity with authorities, (de)politicisation of border management, solidarity with other struggles, etc. Once this is done, I analyse the narratives and practices of the autonomous networks; through fieldwork, I observed visually how they make material changes to the landscape of borders, making them more liveable for people on the move, hence defying the present border regime. Through an analysis of their social media presence, I found how they present themselves to the outside and what theoretical narratives they present regarding the border regime. From this analysis I formulate a hypothesis as to whether and how these networks represent a valid, long-term and sustainable alternative to the present border regime, based on notions of care and responsibility towards the other. Some of the most prominent ethical issues of this thesis have arisen from dealing with vulnerable populations, avoiding depictions of white saviourism, and the issue of “giving something back:” I have tried to employ participatory action research methods in order to control for these issues, and hence blurring the line between “subject” (for lack of a better term) and researcher.
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