ABSTRACT

This article revolves around a specific materiality: a hole in the fence surrounding Lampedusa’s refugee centre. By allowing migrants to informally leave the violently guarded centre and enter Lampedusa town, the hole connects social worlds that on paper should be separate. For the local population, the hole materialises an absence of state management and ‘clear rules’, but it also facilitates encounters between locals and migrants in the form of economic transactions and acts of helpfulness. This does not mean that anti-immigration sentiments are absent, but they remain generally concealed beneath civil pragmatism—measures of etiquette aimed at peacefully preserving public space. Further, by highlighting everyday ambiguity and pragmatic interests, the article provides a tempering of the ideologically overdetermined vocabularies that dominate much discourse on migration in Europe.

摘要

这篇文章围绕着一个特定的物质展开：兰佩杜萨难民中心周围围栏上的一个洞。通过允许移民非正式地离开戒备森严的中心并进入兰佩杜萨镇，这个洞连接了纸上应该分开的社会世界。对于当地人来说，这个洞体现了国家管理和“明确规则”的缺失，但它也促进了当地人和移民之间以经济交易和帮助行为的形式相遇。这并不意味着不存在反移民情绪，但它们通常隐藏在公民实用主义之下——旨在和平保护公共空间的礼仪措施。此外，通过强调日常的歧义和务实的兴趣，本文缓和了主导欧洲移民话题的意识形态过度决定的词汇。