LUCIE BACON /// Collecting Migrant Experiences at the Walls of the European Union « ARCHIPELAGO | The Podcast Platform of the Funambulist
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Magnifique initiative de Lucie sur les récits des migrants, merci @isskein de l’avoir signalé.
COLLECTING MIGRANT EXPERIENCES AT THE WALLS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Conversation recorded with Lucie Bacon in Paris on June 27, 2015
Lucie Bacon and I had this conversation only a few days after she finished her second field trip in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina where her research took her to study the European Union politics of “externalization,” i.e. the ‘subcontracting’ of its (anti-)migration policies outside of the Shenghen Space. Lucie has visited some asylum centers, where numerous migrants wait to be granted their legal status, and detention centers, where migrant bodies are imprisoned prior to their expulsion. She collected numerous testimonies from migrants themselves, but also organizers, activists, administrative officials, etc. and tell us about them in this discussion. We also talk about her cartographic practice, which tries to represent the complexity of migratory paths and experiences, in opposition to the traditional journalistic ways of mapping such trajectories.