Beyond here and there: (re)conceptualising migrant journeys and the 'in-between'
Beyond here and there: (re)conceptualising migrant journeys and the 'in-between'
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2020.1804190
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发表时间：
2020-08-29
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Jones, Katharine
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作者：
Crawley, Heaven;Jones, Katharine
难民和其他移民的旅程通常表现为两个地方之间的线性流动，学术和政策的目光主要指向人们离开的地方和他们的最终目的地。这种线性表示的前提是，当人们离开时，他们心中有一个特定的国家，而“中间”的一切都只是一个“垫脚石”。本文根据2015年在土耳其、希腊和意大利收集的经验数据，探讨了叙利亚人、尼日利亚人和阿富汗人的旅程。我们的证据表明，即使对那些最终到达欧洲的人来说，他们最初旅行的地方往往是目的地，而不是“中转国”。只有当生活变得无法维持并决定搬家时，这些地方才会呈现出一种“中间”状态，最常见的是作为个人叙事的一部分，被受访者动员起来，以理解他们生活经历的更广泛弧线。不能理解，甚至不能提出问题，不同的地方对人们在生理和隐喻（生活）旅程中的不同阶段所具有的多重意义，破坏了对移民旅程的概念和实证分析，并导致了在全球北方大部分地区普遍存在的反移民话语。
Journeys of refugees and other migrants are typically represented as linear movements between two places with the academic and policy gaze directed primarily towards the places people leave and what is assumed to be their final destination. This linear representation presupposes that people have a specific country in mind when they depart and that everything 'in-between' is simply a 'stepping stone'. This article explores the journeys of Syrians, Nigerians and Afghans drawing on empirical data gathered in Turkey, Greece and Italy during 2015. Our evidence suggests that, even for those who eventually arrived in Europe, the places to which people initially travelled were often destination rather than 'transit countries'. It was only when life became untenable and a decision was made to move that these places took on a state of 'in-betweenness', most commonly as part of a personal narrative mobilised by respondents to make sense of the broader arc of their life experiences. Failure to understand, or even ask questions about, the multiple meanings which places have for people at different points in both their phsycial and metaphorical (life) journeys, undermines conceptual and empirical analysis of migrant journeys and plays into anti-immigrant discourses prevalent across much of the Global North.