Live free or die motionless: Walking the migrant path from Italy to France

Q3 Social Sciences

Cultural Studies Review Pub Date : 2018-10-10 DOI:10.5130/CSR.V24I2.5923

Karina Horsti

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Abstract

This essay and the photographs examine visual traces of irregular mobility in the border landscape between Italy and France. The ruined buildings and objects witness decades of movement of undocumented people on this old migrant path across the mountains. By taking the theoretical concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) the essay argues that the Path of Hope can be thought of as a memory site through which the issues of migration in contemporary Europe can be seen in a more sustainable light. The ruins and discarded objects link memories of different places – including different border zones – in ways that allow us to critically examine borders as a practice – rather than as existing dividing lines. Reading visuality of this border zone allows one to imagine a migrant’s vision of the landscape.

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要么自由地活着，要么一动不动地死去:走在从意大利到法国的移民之路上

这篇文章和照片研究了意大利和法国边境景观中不规则流动的视觉痕迹。被毁坏的建筑和物品见证了几十年来无证移民在这条穿越山脉的旧移民道路上的移动。通过采用多向记忆的理论概念(Rothberg 2009)，文章认为，希望之路可以被认为是一个记忆场所，通过它，当代欧洲的移民问题可以从更可持续的角度来看待。废墟和废弃的物品将不同地方的记忆联系在一起——包括不同的边境地区——以一种让我们批判性地审视边界的方式，而不是将其作为现有的分界线。阅读这个边界区域的视觉效果可以让人想象一个移民对景观的看法。

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期刊介绍： Cultural Studies Review is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication and circulation of quality thinking in cultural studies—in particular work that draws out new kinds of politics, as they emerge in diverse sites. We are interested in writing that shapes new relationships between social groups, cultural practices and forms of knowledge and which provides some account of the questions motivating its production. We welcome work from any discipline that meets these aims. Aware that new thinking in cultural studies may produce a new poetics we have a dedicated new writing section to encourage the publication of works of critical innovation, political intervention and creative textuality.