Seminar: Dancing (on) the border. The fleeting hospitality in the border geography of the Bidasoa
From the Reciprocity Study Group, we invite you to the seminar series Racial Capitalism, Borders and Migrations. First session.
We invite you to the seminar of the Study Group on Reciprocity:
“Dancing (on) the border. The fleeting hospitality in the border geography of the Bidasoa”
By Ignacio Mendiola
Which will take place on October 30th at 12 noon in the Anthropology Seminar, Faculty of Geography and History.
Abstract
Since the summer of 2018, the French state has been intensifying its controls on migrant mobility on the Bidasoa border. This has led to a double movement, which has activated, on the one hand, police harassment of migrants who sneak across the border and, on the other, the creation of solidarity networks that help border crossings. This seminar reports on research carried out since the autumn of 2021 and aims to trace the main elements of the atmosphere generated around this border, contrasting the fear generated by hostility with the welcome that opens up from a fleeting hospitality.
Biography
Ignacio Mendiola is a doctor and professor of sociology at the University of the Basque Country. His main lines of research revolve around the way in which power relations affect the production of subjectivities and spaces, giving special importance to the reflection on biopolitics and necropolitics. He has published extensively on borders and migrations, coordinating the monographs Espacio fronterizo: producción securitaria, vivencia e (im)movilidad (CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals Journal, 2019) and Geografías del control fronterizo (Scripta Nova Journal, 2024), and publishing the book El poder y la caza de personas. Frontera, seguridad y necropolítica (Bellaterra, 2022).
Poster in PDF: 2024-10_Danzar_Cartell
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