The New Nomadic Age - Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration - Yannis Hamilakis

The New Nomadic Age - Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration - Yannis Hamilakis

Orange Life Jackets: Materiality and Narration in Lesvos, One Year after the Eruption of the “Refugee Crisis”

The New Nomadic Age - Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration - Yannis Hamilakis

George Tyrikos-Ergas [+-]
University of Ioannina/ University of Durham
George Tyrikos-Ergas holds a PhD in Folkore (University of Ioannina). He is currently Research Associate at Durham University’s Anthropology Department in “Transitory Lives”, an ESRC-funded comparative study of the migration crisis in the Mediterranean. He is a co-founder and frontline activist of the “Agkalia” team in Lesvos, Greece (Raul Wallenberg Prize of the Council of Europe for 2016).

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It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays.

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Tyrikos-Ergas, George. Orange Life Jackets: Materiality and Narration in Lesvos, One Year after the Eruption of the “Refugee Crisis”. The New Nomadic Age - Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 121-126 Nov 2018. ISBN 9781781797112. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=34647. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.34647. Nov 2018

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