ASC Seminar: Africa Europe Migration: Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism

In October 2013, la spiaggia dei conigli on the Italian island of Lampedusa was rated the most beautiful beach in the world by Tripadvisor. It is also the place where more than 500 Eritreans drowned. Lampedusa's recent link to migration from Africa reflects African and European political decisions, while media discourses consistently link the island with tragedy and emergency. Taking Lampedusa as a space filled with multiple realities and signifiers, this seminar reveals that the encounter of two types of movement and the ways people deal with them are producing very important outcomes in terms of interrogating existing classifications of people and emerging counter-discourses. Speaker: Anna Arnone, SOAS. Please register

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