Abstract

In bringing people together that otherwise might have little more than passing contact with one another, tourism is appreciated for its potential to transform mindsets by fostering multi-perspectivity, a cornerstone of global citizenship education, among both ‘tourists’ and ‘locals’. Hence, while tourism plays a significant role in marginalising and exploiting immigrants’ bodies, labour and heritages, it also holds significant potential as a critical pedagogical tool for transcending the limits of multicultural tolerance discourse and combatting exploitation and xenophobia. In this article, we reflect on two Europe-based global citizenship-inspired initiatives bringing together migration and tourism in novel ways: Migrantour guided walking tours and the Roots Guide guidebook. They endeavour to rework guided tours and guidebooks, two of tourism’s most common pedagogical tools, into ‘good company’ that supports the Arendtian practice of ‘visiting’ as a key mode of civic learning. In so doing, we explore the representational and structural opportunities and challenges that these two initiatives encounter as they seek to co-create multi-dimensional narratives and routes in ways that recognise guides’ diverse experiences and perceptions of the places they call home, avoid stereotypical representations of ‘communities’ and hold space for the real-life frictions that accompany diversity.

摘要

在将原本可能只是相互交流的人们聚集在一起的过程中，旅游业因其在“游客”和“当地人”之间培养多视角（全球公民教育的基石）而改变思维方式的潜力而受到赞赏。因此，虽然旅游业在边缘化和剥削移民的身体、劳动力和遗产方面发挥着重要作用，但它也具有作为超越多元文化容忍话语限制和打击剥削和仇外心理的重要教学工具的巨大潜力。在本文中，我们回顾了两项以欧洲为基础的全球公民倡议，以新颖的方式将移民和旅游业结合在一起：Migrantour 导游徒步旅行和 Roots Guide 指南。他们努力修改导游和指南，将旅游业最常见的两种教学工具转化为“好公司”，支持阿伦德式的“参观”实践，将其作为公民学习的关键模式。在这样做的过程中，我们探讨了这两项举措在寻求共同创造多维叙事和路线时遇到的代表性和结构性机遇和挑战，以识别导游对他们称之为家的地方的不同经历和看法，避免刻板印象“社区”的表现形式，并为伴随多样性的现实生活中的摩擦留出空间。