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Precarious encampments in hostile border zones: The methodological challenges of and possibilities for studying contingent camps
Area ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 , DOI: 10.1111/area.12741
Maria Hagan 1
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In migration studies, the space of the camp is most often understood as a fixed, humanitarian or institutional space of containment. In recent years, however, hardened border control strategies have given rise to contingent and precarious forms of encampment that stretch the scope of what we might understand as camp spaces. This paper is a methodological intervention on the study of “contingent camps”: encampments that are not fixed but dynamic and shifting, caught in constant cycles of destruction by state authorities and reinvention by those who inhabit them. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with migrant people inhabiting contingent camps in and around the borderlands at Calais (France) and Tangier (Morocco) between 2017 and 2020, this paper reflects on the methodological challenges of, and possibilities for, carrying out research in these spaces that lack fixed boundaries and thresholds in which to anchor a field strategy. In response to the uncertain ontology of contingent camps and their obscurity, I propose the simultaneous pursuit of embodied ethnography, a forensic scrutiny of camp materialities, and the study of affective atmospheres through attention to the immaterial practices of their residents. Finally, this paper stresses the importance of strategic method selection in these contexts, not only as a tool for approaching and exploring contingent camps, but also as a vector for actively bearing witness to and recording their existence to political ends.

中文翻译:

敌对边境地区不稳定的营地:研究特遣队营地的方法挑战和可能性

在移民研究中,营地空间通常被理解为一个固定的、人道主义的或制度性的收容空间。然而,近年来,强化的边境控制战略导致了临时和不稳定的营地形式,扩大了我们可能理解为营地空间的范围。本文是对“特遣队营地”研究的方法论干预:营地不是固定的,而是动态的和变化的,陷入国家当局不断破坏和居住者重新发明的循环之中。本文利用 2017 年至 2020 年间在加莱(法国)和丹吉尔(摩洛哥)边境地区及其周边地区居住的移民的民族志实地考察,反思了在方法学上面临的挑战和可能性,在这些空间中开展研究,这些空间缺乏固定的边界和阈值来锚定现场战略。针对临时营地的不确定本体及其默默无闻,我建议同时追求具身民族志,对营地物质进行法医审查,并通过关注其居民的非物质实践来研究情感氛围。最后,本文强调了在这些背景下选择战略方法的重要性,不仅作为接近和探索特遣队阵营的工具,而且作为积极见证和记录其存在以达到政治目的的载体。我建议同时追求具身民族志,对营地物质进行法医审查,并通过关注居民的非物质实践来研究情感氛围。最后,本文强调了在这些背景下选择战略方法的重要性,不仅作为接近和探索特遣队阵营的工具,而且作为积极见证和记录其存在以达到政治目的的载体。我建议同时追求具身民族志,对营地物质进行法医审查,并通过关注居民的非物质实践来研究情感氛围。最后,本文强调了在这些背景下选择战略方法的重要性,不仅作为接近和探索特遣队阵营的工具,而且作为积极见证和记录其存在以达到政治目的的载体。
更新日期:2021-07-09
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