Disfrontalp: Alpine borders and migration issues
15This project aims to understand the complexity of the contemporary Alpine border system by revealing the consequences for migrants of the tightening of controls at the European Union’s internal borders.
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Since the Alpine countries reintroduced systematic border controls in 2015, Alpine borders have been militarized, forcing exiles to pass through increasingly dangerous routes, increasing the lethality of crossings.
The aim of the Disfrontalp project– Alpine borders and migration issues, a survey of exiled, missing and dead people– is to set up an Alpine research network responsible for creating, publishing and disseminating a database of people who have migrated from Italy or countries on the “Balkan route” and died trying to cross the Alps to find refuge in Western Europe. The data collected show that, since 1993, 149 people have died attempting to cross an Alpine border, 84% of them since 2015, when the borders were militarized and controls increased.
DisFrontAlp brings together a team of researchers, in conjunction with university partners and associations and activists, to produce geo-political analyses based on the data collected, to make them visible through maps and infographics, and to reflect on ways of commemorating the dead on Alpine borders.
Researchers involved in the DisFrontAlp project: Sarah Bachellerie (PhD student, Pacte), Mathilde Ravetto (intern, Pacte).
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When the mountains get political
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