The Central-Med Passages

The research unfolded as an attempt to interpret the fragile architectures of solidarity along the routes of movement, placing at its core:

a) the nexus between labour exploitation in the agro-industrial sector and the emergence of safe spaces along the route;
b) the cultural and artistic production among travellers and the circulation of collective imaginaries;
c) the embedding of migration routes in layered economic and cultural patterns
d) the social construction of border crossing, and the forms of solidarity among adventurers;
e) the organisation of solidarity at sea and the role of the civil fleet;
f) the counter-dictionary and the subaltern languages of the Central Mediterranean passages.

From a methodological perspective, the research relied on multi-sited ethnography, as well as art-based and participative methods (delivering cultural objects in the following artistic sectors: music and cinema).