Descripción del proyecto
Seguimiento de la migración informal a lo largo de la ruta de los Balcanes
Miles de migrantes (sobre todo de Siria, Irak, Afganistán, Pakistán y África septentrional) viajan cada año por la ruta de los Balcanes. Esta ruta, considerada el principal corredor migratorio terrestre en Europa, tiene una geografía abrupta con lugares formales e informales, visibles e «invisibles» que sustentan «el juego», el término que emplean los migrantes para referirse a sus viajes irregulares por la región. A lo largo de la ruta, ha surgido un archipiélago de campamentos improvisados que sirven como refugios temporales y lugares donde los migrantes se reúnen, descansan y planifican sus próximos pasos. En el proyecto TheGAME, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, se examinarán las realidades sociales y políticas de estos campamentos improvisados, considerándolos como formaciones geográficas interconectadas que constituyen corredores y que son esenciales para las múltiples experiencias de los migrantes en la ruta de los Balcanes.
Objetivo
The Balkan Route is the most important overland informal migration corridor in Europe, taken by thousands of refugees every year. Linking Greece to Western Europe across Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia, the Route is a complex geography of formal and informal, visible and ‘invisible’ sites; an assemblage of diverse actors, camps, borders, violence, solidarity, and a multiplicity of micro-routes, constantly adapting and shifting. Across and between these interconnected spatialities, refugees forge their trajectories towards Europe through ‘The Game,’ the term they use to refer to clandestine journeys. Along the Route, an archipelago of makeshift camps has emerged, hosting thousands of refugees as they repeatedly attempt to enter Europe. Key in producing and sustaining The Game, these sites serve as temporary shelters, nodes of services and information, where refugees meet smugglers, wait, and plan the next move. To understand how informal migration corridors work TheGAME aims to: (1) theorize makeshift camps as distinct spatialities with a unique social and political life; (2) investigate the Route’s archipelago of makeshift camp as an inter-connected, corridor-forming counter-geography; (3) produce an archive-in-progress documenting refugee experiences of a corridor endlessly re-invented across space and time; (4) employ counter-mapping as a methodology capable of critically understanding how the Balkan Route functions and propose a novel and replicable approach to studying informal migration corridors globally. TheGAME is the first transnational, multi-sited, multi-temporal, extensive ethnographic research on an entire informal migration corridor, a ground-breaking project with the potential to disrupt how we understand refugee informal mobilities and camps, generate cutting-edge academic work and shape new directions for Camp Studies and Political Geography.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institución de acogida
40126 Bologna
Italia