"他们会永远拥有巴黎吗?在埃菲尔铁塔观察、了解并非正式地接触无证非洲纪念品销售商

WORLD Pub Date : 2024-06-07 DOI:10.3390/world5020021
Scooter Pégram
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埃菲尔铁塔是一个永恒的象征,世界各地的人们都梦想着到巴黎去瞻仰它。每年都有数以百万计的游客来到这个著名景点,其中有一群非洲纪念品小贩,他们以销售艾菲尔铁塔的微缩模型为生。虽然这些小贩在塔上无处不在,但他们作为无证移民的工作经历使他们成为隐形人。对于巴黎当局来说,非洲人在埃菲尔铁塔上兜售廉价纪念品本身就是一种非法滋扰,必须予以根除。不管怎样,警方的多次干预都未能阻止未经许可的纪念品市场。由于这些独立创业者既不受欢迎也不被欢迎,在巴黎标志性景点出售小饰品的非洲人每天都面临挑战。迄今为止,还没有人调查或深入研究过他们在世界上游客最多的地方之一的工作经历。本研究旨在通过观察和与他们就各种话题进行非正式的直接接触,揭开巴黎非洲人这一独特群体的神秘面纱。尽管他们作为无证移民在一个不想要他们的国家秘密生活,面临着种种现实问题,但这些移民仍然对未来充满希望。
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“Will They Always Have Paris?”: Observing, Understanding, and Informally Engaging with Undocumented African Souvenir Sellers at the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is an enduring symbol, and people from around the world dream of travelling to Paris to gaze at it. Walking amongst the millions of tourists who visit the famous site each year are an enterprising group of African souvenir vendors whose livelihoods rely on the sales of miniature versions of the structure. As visibly omnipresent as these sellers are at the tower, their experience as undocumented migrants working unofficially makes them invisible. For the Paris authorities, the mere presence of Africans offering cheap keepsakes at the Eiffel Tower is considered an illegal nuisance that must be eradicated. No matter, recurrent police interventions have failed to cease the unauthorised souvenir market. Because these independent entrepreneurs are neither wanted nor welcomed, Africans selling trinkets at the iconic Parisian site face daily challenges. Until now, no one has ever investigated or profoundly surveyed their experience working at one of the most-visited places in the world. This study aims to demystify this unique group of Africans in Paris after observing and informally engaging with them directly concerning various topics. Despite the demur realities confronting them as undocumented migrants living clandestinely in a country that does not want them, these migrants remain hopeful for the future.
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