Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea

ISBN-13: 9783031450969 / Angielski

Camille Schmoll

Opis

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Spis treści

1.   Introduction: At the Crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean                                                           

When Truth Is Stranger than Fiction                              

An Ethnography of Survivors                                    

Life in the Age of Borders                                               

A Genealogy of Enclosure      

On the Margins of Europe                                              

African Women in Italy: A Long History

The Era of the 2000s: The Humanitarian-Repressive Turn

A Version of the Facts

2.   The Life of Julienne

“On the wedding day, I didn’t agree to it”

“I spent ten years like that”

“That woman, she helps you get out, she knows the road”

“I was lying on the side of the road, as if dead”

“Come, come, I’m going to put you on the boat, you’re going to Italy” 

“Every day, I pray to God that He gives me papers” 

“That’s when the anger, it went to my head” 

“I’ll never be able to forget this story”

3. The Long Journey of African Migrant Women 

Multiple Motivations for Leaving and Cumulative Violence Exposure

Blazing a Trail

Leaving War-Torn Libya

Fleeing Eritrea

Carving Out a Place for Oneself

What Does “Mixed” Stand for in “Mixed Migration”?

Vulnerabilities: Asylum Claims and Violence Experienced en Route 

Perilous Land Journeys

When Knowledge Is Not Power: Being Aware of the Dangers of Travel

The Sea Crossing

With or Without Consent: The Victims of Human Trafficking 

On their Own…Really? 

4.   Archipelagos of Constraint: The Arrival in Europe

The Arrival in Europe, from Sorting Centres to Selection Apparatuses

In the Hotspots

In Malta’s Detention Centres

Romeo and Juliette in the Panopticon

At the Identification and Deportation Centre of Ponte Galeria

Criminalising Asylum through Detention

Repatriated

Relocated

“Dublined” 

“Fingerprint”

Static Mobility

5. In the Margins: The Moral Landscapes of the Migrant Reception System

At the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers

The Empire of Acronyms

Lives in Limbo, Time Stretched Out

“Moralscapes”: The Moral Landscapes of Waiting

Places of Opportunity? The Logic of Crisis and the Logic of Emergency

Emergency Reception Centres: Micro-Facilities and Mammoth Building Complexes 

The Spatial Grammar of Waiting: Immobilisation, Remoteness, Captivity

Women’s Mobility as a Cause of Concern

Privacy Policies and the Politics of Intimacy

The Micro-Politics of Internet Use 

In the Margins, towards a “Politics of Resilient Life”

6.   The Scales of Autonomy: The Body, the Domestic Space, the Digital Space

Autonomy in Tension

A Geomethod to Exercise Autonomy: The Jump of Scale

The Body in Migration and in Detention

Controlling the Domestic Space

What Does the Internet Stand for?

Autonomy and the Restructuring of Intimacy: Some Concluding Remarks

Conclusion: What Migration Does to Women, What Women Do to Migration  

The Fallacy of the Feminisation of Migration

Taking Women into Account: Forty Years of Research on Female Migration

Feminising the Gaze

Rethinking the Equation “Female Migration = Emancipation”

Repoliticising Migration, Repoliticising Gender: A Feminist Reading  

O autorze

Camille Schmoll is Research Director at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations, and a member of the Géographie-cités research centre, France. A feminist political geographer, she is especially interested in gender and migration issues, critical migration studies, and reflexivity within migration scholarship. Her work explores migration from an ethnographic perspective, with a particular focus on the making of border-places (e.g. islands, cities, neighbourhoods) and the trajectories of migrant women. She was Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales from 2019 to 2022, and has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books in French, Italian and English.

Blurb

​This book offers a history of migration in the Mediterranean written about and from the perspective of women. It gives a complex picture of individual journeys of migrant women, and in a radical departure from the miserabilist or culturalist approach through which women are usually viewed, and instead argues for a politically and socially aware feminism that is attuned to what border-obsessed migration policies actually do to women. The book depicts the journey of women as they experience brutal separations and make heart-wrenching decisions, but also as they make acquaintances and find new opportunities. The first-person accounts collected here demonstrate that the reasons behind these women’s decision to leave are anything but simple and linear: they combine various forms of persecution and oppression with a desire for autonomy.The book further explores the daily lives of women in reception centres as they wait for a Europe that rejects them to acknowledge their presence. At the same time, this study shows that these women are taking charge of their own destinies and journeys. This accordingly puts the space of everyday life front and centre. Such a space acts as an impediment to these women’s journeys: it generates a “moralscape” of waiting, which plays a key role in these women’s daily lives. However, it can also help these women gain greater autonomy, thus empowering them.

Camille Schmoll is Research Director at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations, and a member of the Géographie-cités research centre, France. A feminist political geographer, she is especially interested in gender and migration issues, critical migration studies, and reflexivity within migration scholarship. Her work explores migration from an ethnographic perspective, with a particular focus on the making of border-places (e.g. islands, cities, neighbourhoods) and the trajectories of migrant women. She was Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales from 2019 to 2022, and has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books in French, Italian and English.