Going illegal, a border diary / a film by Anna Wilma Xilakis.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Xilakis, Anna Wilma, director.

Universiteit Leiden. Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Immigration enforcement.

Refugees--Europe.

Refugees.

Refugees--Greece.

Refugees--Government policy.

Macedonia--Emigration and immigration.

Macedonia.

Greece--Emigration and immigration.

Greece.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Ethnographic films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, South Holland : Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Universiteit Leiden, 2017.

Language Note:

In Greek and English with English subtitles.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In the winter of 2015, the world faced the biggest refugee crisis since WWII. People escaping war, persecution and poverty reached Idomeni the Greek-FYROM border that became a symbol of Europe's excluding character. While Immigration policies harshened, deploying methods such as detention and deportation, a transnational activist network was formed in response, alongside local initiatives, aiming to help those rejected at the frontier. The network advocated the right to freedom of movement as a fundamental human right, challenging notions such as legality, illegality, borders and nation-states. The ethnographic film Going Illegal, a border Diary, an outcome of a politically engaged ethnographic research depicts the crisis through the movement's actions.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 25, 2021).

OCLC:

1264102040