| Titre | Making Oneself In/Visible in Alpine Tourist Areas: Migrants' Visual Strategies of Resistance on the French-Italian Border | |
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| Auteur | Sarah Bachellerie | |
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Revue | Revue de Géographie Alpine |
| Numéro | vol. 112, no 3, 2024 Négocier sa place en montagne. Faire l'expérience de la domination et de sa contestation : perspectives radicales | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article looks at the dynamics of in/visibility as a power relation in Alpine tourist areas along the French-Italian border, specifically the Côte d'Azur coastline of Menton–Ventimiglia and the Alpine ski resorts of Montgenèvre and Clavière. Migration control in these regions relies on social and “ethno-racial” profiling by law enforcement officers. The structural social and racial inequalities in the Alpine region render “non-white” minorities and “non-legitimate” tourists hypervisible, resulting in the disproportionate targeting of foreigners from the “Global South.” To evade control, targeted migrants adopt strategies of invisibility, such as hiding in the mountains or using the “passing” strategy, which involves presenting themselves as legitimate travelers. These strategies of resistance against the border regime demonstrate the migrants' nuanced understanding of the social relations of class and race at play in Alpine tourist areas. By circumventing obstacles to mobility and challenging the social-racial order imposed by the border, the migrants exercise their freedom of movement despite the restrictive border practices. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/13874 |
