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The Migration Mobile offers an account of the very different
technologies implicated in border crossing and migration
management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles
over who belongs and who does not, who is and is not allowed to
move freely in transnational or national spaces. Embedded as they
are in the bordering process, policing and security practices
produce the irregularity and illegitimacy of the migrating subject.
At the same time, border practices simultaneously imply processes
of dissidence and resistance. Border infrastructures and resistance
to bordering practices refer to dynamic and complex interactions
between migrants and non-human others, technologies at the
borderland and elsewhere. Border guards, EU officials, Frontex
officers, activists, NGOs and solidarity networks configure both
hybrid alliances of humans/nonhumans and new virtual and urban
spaces in order to enforce or resist bordering. Through analyses of
empirical cases drawing from the European border regimes the book
investigates how technologies employed by states and EU border
agencies configure the border regimes; how spaces of migration are
configured through uses and re-uses of high-tech technologies; and
finally on how the border regimes and 'the border industrial
complex' are contested reconfigured by the use of ICT by migrants
and solidarity networks.
Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in
contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in
the light of European integration processes and an on-going
tightening of Europe's external borders. Moreover, the book
suggests new ways of investigating the nature of European borders
by looking at border practices in the light of the mobility turn,
and thus as dynamic, multiple, diverse and best expressed in
everyday experiences of people living at and with borders, rather
than focusing on static territorial divisions between states and
regions at geopolitical level. It provides border scholars and
researchers as well as policymakers with new empirical and
theoretical evidence on the de- and re-bordering processes going on
in diverse border regions in Europe, both within and outside of the
EU.
Addressing and conceptualizing the changing character of borders in
contemporary Europe, this book examines developments occurring in
the light of European integration processes and an on-going
tightening of Europe's external borders. Moreover, the book
suggests new ways of investigating the nature of European borders
by looking at border practices in the light of the mobility turn,
and thus as dynamic, multiple, diverse and best expressed in
everyday experiences of people living at and with borders, rather
than focusing on static territorial divisions between states and
regions at geopolitical level. It provides border scholars and
researchers as well as policymakers with new empirical and
theoretical evidence on the de- and re-bordering processes going on
in diverse border regions in Europe, both within and outside of the
EU.
This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical
dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and
large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital
migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape
not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing
new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but
also the activities of other actors, from solidarity networks to
border control agencies. In doing so, digital technologies create a
whole new set of ethical and methodological challenges for
migration studies: from data access to data interpretation, privacy
protection, and research ethics more generally. Of specific concern
are the aspects of digital migration researchers accessing digital
platforms used by migrants, who are subject to precarious and
insecure life circumstances, lack recognised papers and are in
danger of being rejected and deported. Thus, the authors call for
new modes of caring for (big) data when researching migrants'
digital practices in the configuration of migration and borders.
Besides taking proper care of research participants' privacy,
autonomy, and security, this also spans carefully establishing
analytically sustainable environments for the respective data sets.
In doing so, the book argues that it is essential to carefully
reflect on researchers' own positioning as being part of the
challenge they seek to address.
This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical
dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and
large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital
migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape
not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing
new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but
also the activities of other actors, from solidarity networks to
border control agencies. In doing so, digital technologies create a
whole new set of ethical and methodological challenges for
migration studies: from data access to data interpretation, privacy
protection, and research ethics more generally. Of specific concern
are the aspects of digital migration researchers accessing digital
platforms used by migrants, who are subject to precarious and
insecure life circumstances, lack recognised papers and are in
danger of being rejected and deported. Thus, the authors call for
new modes of caring for (big) data when researching migrants'
digital practices in the configuration of migration and borders.
Besides taking proper care of research participants' privacy,
autonomy, and security, this also spans carefully establishing
analytically sustainable environments for the respective data sets.
In doing so, the book argues that it is essential to carefully
reflect on researchers' own positioning as being part of the
challenge they seek to address.
Disorder and order are among the principles through which the
articles in this issue are connected. Peter Jan Margry grasps the
exuberant excesses surrounding the Dutch monarchs birthday with the
term mobocracy and sees in the suspension of rules a means to
reconcile Dutch republicanism with the anachronism of a monarchical
system. Ongoing disorder of a rather different nature is
experienced by migrant workers from Poland in Denmark. Niels Jul
Nielsen and Marie Sandberg accompany them at work and in their
different home settings and analyse the divergent interplay of the
Polish labour niche and family dynamics on different constructions
of orderly work conditions. Stefan Groth uncovers the structuring
power of new tools and events to measure performance in
recreational cycling; competitive norms are shown to permeate a
leisure activity. Old age, too, is not free from the structuring
arm of social and health regimes. Through his analysis of billiards
a game favoured by the older men he studies Aske Juul Lassen
critiques aging policies striving to activate the elderly and
overlooking the rhythms inherent to a traditional game and
activity. The issue concludes with Tuuli Lahdesmakis comparison of
how local heritage actors choose to narrate the transnationally
launched European Heritage Label. Within an initiative to foster
Europeanization, she finds actors formulating European identities
in different moulds.
Ethnicized border economies and tourist emotions, urban witchcraft
and working lives, predictive genetic testing and vaccination
programmes - the present issue of Ethnologia Europaea assembles a
range of topics that demonstrate the vitality of the field in
highly diverse arenas. David Picard probes the personal
transformations of Germans touring the Indian Ocean island of La
Reunion. Shifts and continuities in the border economies of the
sub-Carpathian Hungarian social world are explored in Anne Marie
Losonczy's contribution. Manuela Cunha and Jean-Yves Durand examine
vaccine acceptability and the production of dissent as it emerges
in routine vaccination in French and Portuguese settings, whereas
Niclas Hagen traces the impact of potential genetic knowledge,
taking a case of Huntington's disease as his point of departure.
Scrutinizing the diversity of work lives, Irene Gotz questions the
viability of the term post-Fordism in the new ethnography of work.
Victoria Hegner analyses the ways in which neo-pagan witches
interact with urban terrain. Finally, Carina Ren and Morten Krogh
Petersen take a look at the sprouting cross-fertilizations between
ethnology and Actor-Network Theory and how these intersections
impact the study of culture.
Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal
with a focus on European cultures and societies. It carries
material of great interest not only for European ethnologists and
anthropologists but also for sociologists, social historians and
scholars involved in cultural studies. The journal was started in
1967 and since then it has acquired a central position in the
international and interdisciplinary cooperation between scholars
inside and outside Europe.
In many Mediterranean countries we observe newcomers to the
political arena: new forms of social networking, growing
opposition, and protest articulated by local communities or locally
active social movements. In this special issue we present fresh
research on localized practices of resistance by protest groups,
solidarity initiatives, and cultural projects, which have arisen in
the wake of the 2008 crisis. Based on ethnological fieldwork, the
volume offers insights into the media-based protest against the
commodification of the historic Marseille district Panier (Philip
Cartelli); urban gardening in Ljubljana as a practice opposing the
growing neoliberal market economy (Saa Poljak Istenic); and the
movement Genuino Clandestino, a solidarity network of small-scale
farmers in Italy (Alexander Koensler). Three case studies deal with
social movement in Greece: a solidarity network in Volos, where
citizens developed an alternative exchange and trading system
(Andreas Streinzer); grassroots mobilizations as resistant
practices in the inner urban neighbourhood of Exarchia in Athens
(Monia Cappuccini); and finally rural solidarity networks on the
Peloponnese peninsula (James Verinis). A comparative discussion of
Mediterranean protest movements (Jutta Lauth Bacas and Marion
Naser-Lather) identifies underlying common features in these
clearly different, yet relatable practices of protest: among
others, the major role of face-to-face interaction and mutual
trust.
On the occasion of the 50th year since the publication of the first
issue of Ethnologia Europaea in 1967, this issue is dedicated to
reflection on the past half-century. It presents five articles, one
from each decade of the journal's publication, on the one hand
showcasing classic articles and on the other highlighting the
shifts and re-orientations the journal has undergone along the way.
These changes are addressed in the comments on each article by a
wide range of scholars as well as in the overarching reflections on
50 years of Ethnologia Europaea by two of its former editors,
Regina F. Bendix and Orvar Loefgren.
This issue opens with an in-depth analysis by Antti Lindfors of the
ways that satire is intertwined with moral understandings, bringing
recent discussions from the anthropology of ethics as well as
emotions to the stand-up comedian's stage in Finland and elsewhere.
Ethical issues are also at stake in Britta Lundgrens's examination
of how Swedish health-care providers involved in the threat of an
epidemic as well as adverse side-effects of vaccinations face
double-bind situations and deal with their own doubts. Then Niels
Jul Nielsen and Janus Jul Olsen explain how the neoliberal
transformations in Denmark's social welfare system have resulted
from the loss of a perception of the working class as a potential
threat to societal stability and peace. Anastasiya Astapova's
article which provides the inspiration for this issue's cover art,
looks at the folklore of Potemkinism in Belarus, local attitudes
and narratives around the "facade" performance. And finally, Jernej
Mleku explores the symbolic complexity and material significance of
the burek in Solvenia, one of the country's most popular and yet
disrespected foods.
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