Project description
Understanding the refugee-shipping intersection in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean refugee crisis has been studied in terms of the relationships between states, asylum-seekers, and humanitarian organisations. It often overlooks the sea’s critical role in global cargo transportation. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EnROUTE project examines how unauthorised migration intersects with the logistical, financial, and labour infrastructures of global shipping. Focusing on ships, ports, and corporate offices, the project analyses the friction between border enforcement and maritime supply chains. Ultimately, EnROUTE highlights the tensions between property rights and human dignity. It also studies how rescued migrants, seafarers, and dockworkers navigate these encounters through the lenses of race, class, and gender.
Objective
In recent years, the refugee crisis and its aftermath have drawn renewed attention to the Mediterranean. Scholarship on contemporary migrations, however, has privileged relations among states, asylum-seekers and humanitarian organizations. It has overlooked the Mediterranean’s primary importance as a medium for the transportation of cargo. So, too, has this scholarship neglected the people whose labour sustains the sea’s place in the global economy. Entangled Routes: Border-Crossers, Maritime Labour, and the Mediterranean Infrastructures of Capital (EnROUTE) aims to make a groundbreaking contribution to the study of contemporary Mediterranean mobility by offering the first focused study of how the itineraries of unauthorized migration intersect with the labour, insurance and logistical infrastructures of global shipping. Through an innovative interdisciplinary approach drawing from cultural studies, critical border studies, maritime history and anthropology the proposed research will examine the encounters between migrant and merchant routes from two angles: on the one hand, it will trace how the clashes between border enforcement and maritime commodity chains stage the tensions among the rights of property, of states and of the human at stake in the Mediterranean. On the other, it will examine how rescued migrants, seafarers and dockworkers themselves negotiate those encounters, the dynamics of race, class and gender that frame it, and the political horizons that emerge out of the intersection of their itineraries. Adopting a transnational and comparative perspective, the proposed research is structured around three key sites of the supply chain: the ship, the port and the company office, combining ethnographic and archival research on specific cases with a cultural analysis of their political deployment and public reception as they emerge in parliamentary debates, corporate and media campaigns, as well as in literary and filmic narratives.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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