(Forced) Movement

What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. Through an assemblage of voices, lived experiences, historical documents, urban and rural dislocations, this publication examines responses to mobility of the ones on the move, and of the ones living in the destinations the former are heading to. It speaks of the sacrifices one is forced to make en route and at its antipode; the implications of voluntary migration to a place, steered by investment in real estate.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations color and b/w
available december 2021
language English
1st print fall 2021
2nd print spring 2023
contents

(Forced) Movement
by Antigone Samellas

Amygdalia
by Christina Phoebe

To live in the Borderlands means you
by Gloria Anzaldua

In the Great Mara River
by Liwaa Yazji

Real-Estate Cosmopolitanisms
by George Papam

Uprootings/Xerizomoi
by Nicolas Lakiotakis

editors
Dimitra Kondylatou
David Bergé

Delving into the concepts of displacement and identity, this constellation of voices and formats is a necessary and constant interrogation on issues of power, authority, and freedom in which the Aegean archipelago is just a departure point for learning to live ‘sin fronteras’, to be at a crossroads.
– Ethel Baraona Pohl, 2024
This thoughtful and sensitive account of forced movement in our present guides our attention to the ongoing exigencies of disposability, uprootedness, detention, and political loss of economized, racialized, and illegalized precarious bodies in transit across the borders of Europe. At a moment when walls and barricades are rising and becoming increasingly militarized, and contrary to the clichés of the Mediterranean as a place of tranquil navigation, this stimulating collection remains committed to the possibility of delineating a critical re-imagining of movement towards conditions that allow for safe crossing, hospitality, and equal belonging across the Aegean Sea.
– Athena Athanasiou, 2024