ABSTRACT

The Italian island of Lampedusa has become synonymous with irregular migration and border enforcement in the Mediterranean, not least since thousands of Tunisians stranded on the island during the so-called Arab Spring in 2011. This article investigates how local interpretations of the situation were centred on ‘abandonment by the state’, and it suggests that 2011 thus represented both a moment of rupture and historical reproduction: while everyday regularities were dislodged and the local tourist industry suffered a hard blow, the interpretative frame of ‘abandonment by the state’ is a political relation as old as Italy itself. Inspired by Reinhardt Koselleck’s thinking on multilayered and multidirectional history, the article describes 2011 as a ‘layered event’ that engaged both a troubled past and an uncertain future.

摘要

意大利的兰佩杜萨岛已成为地中海非正规移民和边境执法的代名词，尤其是自从 2011 年所谓的“阿拉伯之春”期间成千上万的突尼斯人滞留在岛上以来。本文调查了当地对这种情况的解释是如何集中于“国家放弃”，这表明 2011 年既代表了断裂的时刻，也代表了历史的再现：虽然日常规律被打破，当地旅游业遭受重创，但“国家放弃”的解释框架是一个与意大利本身一样古老的政治关系。受 Reinhardt Koselleck 对多层次和多向历史的思考的启发，这篇文章将 2011 年描述为一个“多层次的事件”，既有麻烦的过去，也有不确定的未来。