Mastromarino, Stefano;
Boano, camillo;
(2023)
Vallée de la Roya and its opaque infrastructures of transit. Inhabiting the border.
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10.62471/field.117.
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Abstract
This paper offers a closer look at the French-Italian border and its violence. The border in the Vallée de la Roya exemplifies a complex set of conditions of rurality, transit, and danger to which migrant bodies are constantly subjected. In this context, different genealogies of displacement, social fabrics and spatial forms are forced to coexist and resist situations of crisis in different ways, contributing to ongoing processes of dematerialisation of the border. The southern French-Italian border and its valley are the stage where new forms of spaces and practices of holding are enacted amid simultaneous and ambivalent conflicts between support and hostility, mobility and immobility, visibility, and invisibility. The growing increase of transit and the subsequent enclosure of the internal borders motivate simultaneous military mobilisations as well as important acts of reception and solidarity. The valley and the experience of Le Camping encompass a new fragment of an infrastructure of solidarity that explains its performativity as a transnational system of protection, by enabling transits through informal, diffuse, and opaque dispositifs of collective resistance.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Vallée de la Roya and its opaque infrastructures of transit. Inhabiting the border |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.62471/field.117 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.62471/field.117 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10185156 |
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