Migrant support volunteer tourism facing crises. Patchwork autoethnographies on Lesvos (Greece)

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-02 DOI:10.1177/14687976231216127

Giovanna Di Matteo, Luca Daminelli

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Abstract

The island of Lesvos serves as a symbol of migration in the Mediterranean. From 2015 onwards, a steady stream of volunteer tourists began working on the island. Between 2019 and 2022 various ‘crises’ such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the fire at the Moria camp, and the rise of the far right in Greece significantly altered living conditions for both refugees and volunteer workers on the island. The authors employ a comparative patchwork autoethnography to rethink participant observation to fit the pandemic era. Through a situated, relational, and more-than-representational analysis of autoethnographic material and the confrontation between the authors’ experiences, the aim of this paper is to investigate how migrant support volunteer tourism interacts with various simultaneous ‘crises’ ongoing on Lesvos. This led to a reimagining of the way we understand volunteer tourism over its ‘pro vulnerable’ approach.

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面临危机的移民支持志愿旅游。莱斯沃斯（希腊）的拼凑自述

莱斯沃斯岛是地中海地区移民的象征。从2015年开始，源源不断的志愿者游客开始在岛上工作。2019年至2022年期间，各种“危机”，如新冠肺炎大流行、莫里亚难民营大火以及希腊极右翼势力的崛起，极大地改变了岛上难民和志愿者的生活条件。作者采用了一种比较拼凑的自我民族志来重新思考参与者的观察，以适应大流行时代。通过对自身民族志材料的情境、关系和非代表性分析，以及作者经验之间的冲突，本文的目的是研究移民支持志愿者旅游如何与莱斯沃斯岛上正在进行的各种同时发生的“危机”相互作用。这让我们重新思考志愿者旅游的方式，而不是“支持弱势群体”的方式。

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Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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6.90

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.