Clandestine migration facilitation and border spectacle
Criminalisation, Solidarity, Contestations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5717396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Kolankiewicz (0000-0002-8987-733X, Lund University, corresponding author), Maja Sager (0000-0002-1816-8878, Lund University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 584-596 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17450101.2021.1888628 |
| OpenAlex | W3135340626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
The article analyses a case of prosecution for human smuggling. Three film crew members accompanied a Syrian refugee boy from Greece to Sweden, while recording the journey in a documentary that was screened on Swedish public television in 2015. Despite widespread recognition, they were prosecuted and found guilty of human smuggling by all the levels of the Swedish judiciary. Using a variety of materials – text and visual data, observations and interviews – we follow the case as it moves across different arenas: the media, the court and in activism. The analysis is inspired by and further develops de Genova’s notion of the border as spectacle. What conditions for acting and speaking structure the arenas, and how and from which positions can the border spectacle be contested? The motion across these arenas offers an opportunity to disclose the operation of the borders as a regime that controls people’s mobility and solidarity in unequal ways
Criminology · Enforcement · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Solidarity · Spectacle · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
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The Theatricality of Humanitarianism
From citizenship to mobile commons
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Gender, Culture and Epistemic Injustice
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A world without innocence
Spectacles of migrant 'illegality
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |