Remains: Exploring New Frontiers of Fear, Indifference and Love in the Mediterranean

政客和媒体使用的恐惧语言（Chebel d’apollonia 2015）正在世界各地的人民和政府之间制造越来越大的分歧。然而，改善一个人的生活条件的需要是无限的（Jackson 2013），正如跨越加强边界的高风险移民形式（联合国难民署报告）所看到的那样。在边界上，安德森（2019）所说的“不去的世界”（地球上被描绘成危险和越界的部分地区）和“富裕世界”之间的界限变得模糊，变成了一系列意想不到的遭遇，超越了想当然的刻板印象。作为欧洲无证移民边境的当代象征，我在博士研究期间（2016-2017）在意大利兰佩杜萨岛进行了广泛的实地调查，它成为了恐惧和分离的全球秩序的一面镜子，也是一个凝聚和互惠的潜在空间。在这项奖学金中，我将通过与兰佩杜萨当地社区为期一年的接触，在我的博士研究基础上，进一步研究这一分离和互惠的迁徙前沿。这项研究的目的是通过民族志和视觉方法，考察兰佩杜萨当地人和艺术家在20世纪90年代以来地中海无证移民的背景下，与各种各样的无证移民遗骸（物品、故事、图片和尸体）的当代接触（自愿或偶然）如何产生距离或允许相互关系。该项目没有强化媒体和政治代表对兰佩杜萨岛作为悲剧和死亡阶段的移民的主要描绘（Aime 2018），而是建立在现象学方法的基础上，旨在揭示兰佩杜萨岛当地社区成员（活动家、艺术家和当地家庭）对移民遗骸的观点和解释（从讲故事到艺术形式）。我将通过讲习班、研讨会和公共活动吸引移徙工人、艺术家和教师，促进深入思考媒体和边境地区政治叙事背后的原因。这种（对解释和交流的）关注将有助于从分析上挑战边界作为分离和划分空间的传统概念，同时也允许探索民族志写作和方法方法的创新形式。这将大大开辟潜在的途径，影响和鼓励对当代世界非正常移民的法律和伦理挑战进行批判性的重新评估。根据我之前的博士研究，该奖学金将使我能够通过以下方式最大限度地发挥影响：发表了两篇学术论文，一本专著，并致力于出版一本博士研究的田野工作日记。完成一个小规模的研究项目，作为知识交流活动的形式，与兰佩杜萨岛上的主要组织成员、活动家、当地人和学校教师传播和反思我的博士研究。这一因素确保了我的博士研究与关键参与者共享，目的是建立一个功能性的工作网络，激发兰佩杜萨社区内外的想象力和批判性评估。在学术界与援助工作者、医务工作者、活动家和教育部门的决策者发展研究网络和合作。这些合作网络将为我提供宝贵的职业发展机会，使我能够在发表高质量的学术作品、获得项目提案草案的反馈以及发展潜在的未来合作方面建立良好的记录。为居里夫人2021年的研究计划工作，继续在边境地区的日常生活和记忆的产生的背景下进行研究，进一步推动我的研究成果。

The language of fear used by politicians and the media (Chebel d'Appollonia 2015) is producing an increasing divide between peoples and governments across the world. However, the need to improve one's life condition is bound-less (Jackson 2013), as seen in high-risk forms of migration across reinforced borderlines (UNHCR report). At the border, the divide between what Andersson (2019) has called the 'no go world' (parts of the globe portrayed as dangerous and out of bounds) and the 'rich world' becomes blurred into a series of unexpected encounters that exceed taken-for-granted stereotypes. As a contemporary symbol of the frontier for undocumented migration in Europe, the Italian island of Lampedusa, where I conducted extensive fieldwork during my doctoral research (2016-2017), becomes a mirror of a global order of fear and separation, but also a potential space of cohesion and reciprocity. In this Fellowship I will build on my doctoral research on this migratory frontier of separation and reciprocity via a one-year engagement with the local community of Lampedusa. The aim of the research engagement is to examine, by means of ethnography and visual methods, how contemporary encounters (voluntary or accidental) with various abject remains (objects, stories, pictures and corpses) of undocumented migrants by locals and artists in Lampedusa generate distance or allows for mutuality in the context of undocumented migration in the Mediterranean since the 1990s. Rather than reinforcing the dominant portrayal of migration evidenced in media and political representations of Lampedusa as a stage of tragedy and death (Aime 2018), the project builds upon a phenomenological approach aimed at unveiling the perspectives and interpretations (from storytelling to art forms) of migrant remains held by members of the local community [activists, artists, and local families] of Lampedusa. I will engage migration workers, artists and teachers through workshops, seminars, and public events to facilitate an in-depth reflection on what lies behind the media and political narratives of border zones. This focus [on interpretation and exchange] will help analytically to challenge the conventional concept of border as a space of separation and division, while also allowing for exploring innovative forms of ethnographic writing and methodological approaches. This will significantly open up potential pathways to impact and encourage a critical re-evaluation of the legal and ethical challenges of irregular migration in the contemporary world. Drawing upon my previous PhD research, this Fellowship will allow me to maximise the routes to impact by:1. Publishing two academic articles, a monograph, and working toward publication of a fieldwork diary book arising from my doctoral research.2. Completing a small-scale research project, framed as a form of knowledge exchange activity for disseminating and reflecting on my PhD research with key organization members, activists, locals and teachers in schools on Lampedusa. This element ensures that my doctoral research is shared with the key participants with the intention of building a functional working network and stimulating imagination and critical evaluation within the community of Lampedusa and beyond it.3. Developing research networks and collaborations, both within the world of academia, with aid workers, medical practitioners, activists, and policy makers in the educational sector. These collaborative networks will provide invaluable career development opportunities enabling me to establish a track record in the publication of high quality academic work, receiving feedback on draft project proposals and developing potential future collaborations.4. Working on a research proposal for the Marie S. Curie 2021 call to continue my research in the context of everyday life in borderland situations and the production of memory, pushing further my research findings.