
Marta Kolankiewicz
Universitetslektor

Clandestine migration facilitation and border spectacle: criminalisation, solidarity, contestations
Författare
Summary, in English
The article analyses a case of prosecution for human smuggling. Three film crew members accompanied a Syrian refugee boy from Greece to Sweden, while recording the journey in a documentary that was screened on Swedish public television in 2015. Despite widespread recognition, they were prosecuted and found guilty of human smuggling by all the levels of the Swedish judiciary. Using a variety of materials – text and visual data, observations and interviews – we follow the case as it moves across different arenas: the media, the court and in activism. The analysis is inspired by and further develops de Genova’s notion of the border as spectacle. What conditions for acting and speaking structure the arenas, and how and from which positions can the border spectacle be contested? The motion across these arenas offers an opportunity to disclose the operation of the borders as a regime that controls people’s mobility and solidarity in unequal ways.
Avdelning/ar
- Genusvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2021-03-08
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
584-596
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Mobilities
Volym
16
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Gender Studies
- International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Nyckelord
- Clandestine migration facilitation
- human smuggling
- Sweden
- border spectacle
- critical border theory
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1745-0101