The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe

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Increasingly, the European Union and its member states have exhibited a lack of commitment to protecting the human rights of non-citizens. Thinking beyond the oppressive bordering taking place in Europe requires new forms of scholarship. This book provides such examples, offering the analytical lenses of memory and temporality. It also identifies ways of collaborating with people who experience the violence of borders. Established scholars in fields such as history, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, migration and border studies, arts, and cultural studies offer important contributions to the so-called “European refugee crisis”. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Border Memories (Karina Horsti)....Pages 1-14 “True Camps of Concentration”? The Uses and Abuses of a Contentious Analogy (Klaus Neumann)....Pages 15-35 Migratory Angels: The Political Aesthetics of Border Trauma (Johan Schimanski)....Pages 37-52 Curating Objects from the European Border Zone: The “Lampedusa Refugee Boat” (Karina Horsti)....Pages 53-70 Bearing Witness to Violence at Borders: Intermingling Artistic and Ethnographic Encounters (Anitta Kynsilehto)....Pages 71-86 Resonances of Detention and Migration: Representation Through Sound and Absence in the Installation Retention (Anne Zeitz)....Pages 87-99 Self-Narration, Participatory Video and Migrant Memories: A (Re)making of the Italian Borders (Gianluca Gatta)....Pages 101-120 Tracing the Border Crossings of Forced Migrants in Paris’ 18th Arrondissement: Exploring a Photo-Walk Method (Henry Mainsah, Carolina Sanchez Boe)....Pages 121-138 Back Matter ....Pages 139-144