https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:50:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/i-followed-the-flood-a-gender-analysis-of-the-moral-and-financial-economies-of-forced-migration/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/i-followed-the-flood-a-gender-analysis-of-the-moral-and-financial-economies-of-forced-migration/ Continued]]> What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this study, including those of male refugees and those making crossings outside of the context of a family unit. The analysis is theoretically situated at the intersection of critical humanitarianism and the politics of vulnerability, and rooted in debates about the feminisation of refugees and corresponding protection agendas. A key contribution of this work is the ethnographic tracing of how refugees embody these politics along their journeys. In closing, the paper sketches out some implications of the findings for humanitarian practice and identifies avenues for further research.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-mediatized-border-technologies-and-affects-of-migrant-reception-in-the-greek-and-italian-borders/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-mediatized-border-technologies-and-affects-of-migrant-reception-in-the-greek-and-italian-borders/ Continued]]> In line with the European self-description of its borders as a space of “humanitarian securitization,” this article approaches the border as a network of mediations around migrants and refugees, where emotions of fear and empathy co-exist through digital connectivities—what we call the “mediatized border.” Drawing on media, security, and gender studies, we demonstrate how such techno-affective networks are constitutive of (rather than simply complementary to) the border as a hybrid site of both military protection and care for the vulnerable. We do this through hermeneutic and participatory engagements with the two main border sites of the 2015 migration “crisis,” Italy and Greece, and discuss their implications on our understanding of the power relationships of human mobility.

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