Vortrag „Porosity of the Border, Materialisation and Transience: (Im)Mobility in South-East Georgia“
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 deeply affected (im)mobility patterns and translocal practices among the Azerbaijani minority in south-east Georgia next to the border with Azerbaijan and Armenia, which suddenly “materialised”. Drawing on field research conducted in 2018-2023, I look at the transformation of mobility patterns among the Azerbaijani community, including the maintenance of translocal family ties and new migration trends (i.a. Poland, Germany). I understand the border as the transient and material phenomenon of division between states, still negotiated and contested as exemplified by its former and current state, but also as boundary between communities and the state. Thus, I will focus on the border in material, social, political and symbolic dimensions, looking on it through the contexts in which it manifests itself and (dis)appears. What does the porosity of the border mean in these particular circumstances? Under what conditions is it open and for whom still closed, and how is it materialised? What kind of strategies and narratives do residents of this area use for their mobility having been restricted?Zusammenfassung:
Mittwoch, 05. Juni 2024, 16.15 Uhr„Porosity of the Border, Materialisation and Transience: (Im)Mobility in South-East Georgia“
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mit: Mgr Klaudia Kosicińska (Institut für Slawistik, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
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