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Devushka and cigarette: Fluid migrants across the EU border

GRYGAR, Jakub

Basic information

Original name

Devushka and cigarette: Fluid migrants across the EU border

Name in Czech

Děvuška a cigareta. Tekutí migranti přes hranici EU

Authors

GRYGAR, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Slovenský národopis : časopis Ústavu etnológie Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, Slovak Academic Press, 2009, 1335-1303

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/09:00029743

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords (in Czech)

Evropeizace; teritorialita; teorie sítě-aktérů; vnější hranice EU; Polsko; Bělorusko

Keywords in English

Europeanization; territoriality; actor-network theory; the EU external border; Poland; Belarus

Tags

ANT, anthropology of borders, Belarus, Europeanization, migration, Poland

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 6/1/2010 13:11, doc. Mgr. Jakub Grygar, Ph.D.

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

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.

In Czech

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.

Links

GP403/07/P299, research and development project
Name: Uskutečňování EU: mezinárodní hranice a politiky prostoru v polsko-běloruských souvislostech
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Enacting the EU: international borders and politics of space in Polish-Belarus contexts
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