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Representations of Gendered Mobility and the Tragic Border Regime in the Mediterranean

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  • Heidrun Friese

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The current media hype covering (undocumented) mobility to Europe produces powerful images. Global media, politicians, scientists, artists and activists take part in the production of the tragic border regime in the Mediterranean (Lampedusa) and the negotiation of the limits of European hospitality. In a first step, the article envisages the social imagination and its signifying processes staging mobile people as threat, victim or hero/liberator. These figures are related to discourses of security as well as to humanitarian or critical perspectives and are part of the political economy of the migration industry. As these figures are gendered, the representation of mobile women is addressed in a second step. Women are hardly depicted as a social threat or as political heroes/liberators. On the contrary, the entanglement of signifying processes of the social imagination brings forth the figure of mobile women as traumatized victim and/or as caring mother.

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  • Heidrun Friese, 2017. "Representations of Gendered Mobility and the Tragic Border Regime in the Mediterranean," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(5), pages 541-556, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:19:y:2017:i:5:p:541-556
    DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2017.1296260
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    1. Luigi Achilli & Antje Missbach & Soledad à lvarez Velasco, 2023. "Migration and Crime in a Divided World: Strategies, Perceptions, and Struggles," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 709(1), pages 8-22, September.

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