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Harraga and Europe: The emotional geographies of undocumented migrants in Tunisian filmmaking |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A3100, Austin, TX, 78712, United States;2. Department of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave., PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4R2;3. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) Sede Occidente, Av España 1359, Moderna, 44190, Guadalajara, Jal, Mexico;4. Department of Geography, Texas State University, 601 University Dr, San Marcos, TX, 78666, United States;1. Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, 426 Auditorium Road, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA;2. School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA;1. Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, 00-183, Warsaw, Poland;2. Institute of Sociology, University of Białystok, Plac NZS 1, 15-420, Białystok, Poland;3. Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Bialystok, Warszawska 63, 15-062, Białystok, Poland |
| Abstract: | European concern over undocumented migration is conventionally told as a story of unwitting migrants risking their lives to reach the European shores to escape poverty and/or war. We are interested in further opening up and contributing to a more nuanced discussion of the multiple drivers behind migration though a focus on emotions. We do so by mapping out the emotional geographies of Tunisian harraga captured by five Tunisian filmmakers. Our visual analysis of the Tunisian harraga as transmitted by the documentaries and feature films reveals that the migrant's journey across the Mediterranean is motivated by a set of complex and contradictory emotions. Hopes for a better future in the form of individual and societal dignity are mixed up with fear of the dangers of the crossing and of bringing shame to the family. We find that the migrant's desire to up and leave their home country is propelled by the differential between the emotions tied to our-place and their-place. |
| Keywords: | Undocumented migration Tunisia Europe Emotional geographies Films |
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