Devushka and cigarette: Fluid migrants across the EU border

GRYGAR, Jakub. Devushka and cigarette: Fluid migrants across the EU border. Slovenský národopis : časopis Ústavu etnológie Slovenskej akadémie vied. Bratislava: Slovak Academic Press, 2009, roč. 57, č. 5, s. 546-559. ISSN 1335-1303.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Devushka and cigarette: Fluid migrants across the EU border
• Název česky: Děvuška a cigareta. Tekutí migranti přes hranici EU
• Autoři: GRYGAR, Jakub (203 Česká republika, garant).
• Vydání: Slovenský národopis : časopis Ústavu etnológie Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, Slovak Academic Press, 2009, 1335-1303.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Obor: Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie
• Stát vydavatele: Slovensko
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14230/09:00029743
• Organizační jednotka: Fakulta sociálních studií
• Klíčová slova česky: Evropeizace; teritorialita; teorie sítě-aktérů; vnější hranice EU; Polsko; Bělorusko
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Europeanization; territoriality; actor-network theory; the EU external border; Poland; Belarus
• Štítky: ANT, anthropology of borders, Belarus, Europeanization, migration, Poland
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

This article explores the relationship between cross border migration, identity of moving objects, changes of their ontology and political practice. Via ethnography of transborder migration between Poland and Belarus I pursue how are performed and acted both state borders/ borders of the EU and migrants. Methodologically, I use actor-network theory how has been modified by work of John Law, Annemarie Mol, and Susan Star with James Griesemer. Migrations of devushka (a generalization of local transborder petty-traders) and cigarettes (a representative of the most present commodities in the borderland) across external EU border illustrate character and power of social networks, which are the very source of identity. From this I enrich debate of boundary objects, practices of incoherencies, and fluidity in actor-network theory. Analytically, I argue that studying human and non-human migrants as boundary objects reveals how border procedure construct and make intelligible a particular relationship between politics, experience and practice at the external EU border. Treating petty-traders and transferred commodities as methodologically one object therefore has important analytical consequences for how we understand their practical efficacy.

Anotace česky

This article explores the relationship between cross border migration, identity of moving objects, changes of their ontology and political practice. Via ethnography of transborder migration between Poland and Belarus I pursue how are performed and acted both state borders/ borders of the EU and migrants. Methodologically, I use actor-network theory how has been modified by work of John Law, Annemarie Mol, and Susan Star with James Griesemer. Migrations of devushka (a generalization of local transborder petty-traders) and cigarettes (a representative of the most present commodities in the borderland) across external EU border illustrate character and power of social networks, which are the very source of identity. From this I enrich debate of boundary objects, practices of incoherencies, and fluidity in actor-network theory. Analytically, I argue that studying human and non-human migrants as boundary objects reveals how border procedure construct and make intelligible a particular relationship between politics, experience and practice at the external EU border. Treating petty-traders and transferred commodities as methodologically one object therefore has important analytical consequences for how we understand their practical efficacy.

Návaznosti

• GP403/07/P299, projekt VaV: Název: Uskutečňování EU: mezinárodní hranice a politiky prostoru v polsko-běloruských souvislostech

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Uskutečňování EU: mezinárodní hranice a politiky prostoru v polsko-běloruských souvislostech