https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:57:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/orange-life-jackets-materiality-and-narration-in-lesvos-one-year-after-the-eruption-of-the-refugee-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:45 +0000 http://arc.local/items/orange-life-jackets-materiality-and-narration-in-lesvos-one-year-after-the-eruption-of-the-refugee-crisis/ Continued]]> During summer 2015 more than 500.000 refugees reached the shore of the island of Lesvos, Greece, seeking a safe passage to Europe. Refugees were travelling packed into plastic dinghies by smugglers. They all wore life-jackets that were discarded upon arrival. This article discusses the way these life-jackets were used both by locals and widely in Europe, through their materiality, as symbolic material of two distinct and conflicting representations of the refugees and the refugee issue.

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