Topographies of "Borderland Schengen": Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands

Topographies of "Borderland Schengen": Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands
ISBN-10
3839442087
ISBN-13
9783839442081
Category
Social Science
Pages
295
Language
English
Published
2018-03-31
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Author
Jan Kühnemund

Description

Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical framework, he conceptualises `Borderland Schengen' as a visual-political transnational space emerging from the interplay of migration movements and border policies. Putting the spaces and iconologies of `illegal' migration under scrutiny and aiming at establishing their protagonists as subjects, Kühnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice.

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