Description du projet
Expliquer le lien entre les itinéraires des migrants et la solidarité
La migration demeure une question controversée, et les mouvements de migrants sans papiers traversant la frontière de l’UE viennent en tête des préoccupations. Cependant, bon nombre des politiques visant à gérer les arrivées et à empêcher les mouvements de migrants et de réfugiés au sein de l’UE se sont avérées inefficaces. Le projet SOLROUTES, financé par l’UE, expliquera les caractéristiques et les évolutions de la migration non autorisée en relation avec les réseaux de solidarité en s’appuyant sur l’ethnographie, les méthodes collaboratives et la recherche numérique. Le projet étudiera le lien entre les routes migratoires et les réseaux de solidarité en observant 50 nœuds charnières des routes migratoires traversant la Turquie, la Tunisie, le Maroc et les régions ultrapériphériques de l’UE (Guyane française et Mayotte). SOLROUTES développera une théorie innovante en matière d’études sur les migrations et produira des articles spéciaux proposant de nouveaux scénarios pour les décideurs politiques, les communautés locales et les autres parties prenantes concernées.
Objectif
Unauthorized migration has always been a contentious issue in the EU. Yet, many of the policies adopted thus far have proved ineffective in containing arrivals and blocking circulations of migrants and refugees within the EU. Furthermore, unauthorized migration has continued to challenge EU borders even during the pandemic.
SOLROUTES’ core research question is: how can the turbulence, persistence, and intensity of unauthorized movements and of the production of migrants’ routes across “Europe at Large” – originating from the externalization of EU borders to non-EU countries – be understood?
The project addresses this challenge from an innovative angle, through an ethnographic exploration of the nexus between unauthorized movements and the networks of solidarity with migrants in transit, which involve actors and practices that have been addressed just recently in migration studies. This will be achieved by exploring and observing 50 crucial nodes in migration routes within Europe, in selected countries on its fringes (Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco) and in the Outermost Regions of the EU (French Guiana, Mayotte).
SOLROUTES will aim to: a) explore the functioning, articulations, and representations of local and trans-local networks which share shelter, knowledge and resources with migrants in transit; b) assess how routes are continuously reshaped by the encounter between unauthorized movements and solidarity networks; c) develop a large-scale multi-sited ethnographic approach based on live and collaborative methods and digital research; d) develop an innovative theory in migrations studies on the nexus between solidarity with migrants in transit and unauthorized movements, contributing to structure the emerging perspective of solidarities studies; e) generate Special Features – a web series, an art exhibit, a graphic novel – linked to the research, offering new narratives for policy makers, local communities, and other relevant audiences in the spirit of public sociology.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
16126 Genova
Italie