Border surveillance: the counter-inquiry

Researchers Cristina Del Biaggio and Sarah Bachellerie, from the Pacte laboratory (Grenoble Institute of Urban Planning and Alpine Geography), recently published a counter-investigation, for the Border Forensics association, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Blessing Matthew in the Durance (Hautes-Alpes) on May 7, 2018.

This work ties in directly with their research, in particular the thesis conducted by Sarah Bachellerie Surveillance et contrôles migratoires aux frontières haut-alpines, who was invited to talk about her work on Médiapart’s A l’air libre program on May 30.

The question of the risks associated with migrants crossing borders was one of the topics discussed at the 2nd Mountain Research School organized in the Ecrins from June 26 to July 2, in the presence of the two researchers.