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“Research Room” Transit Migration
Labor k3000
The Research Room affords an insight into the materials
and the methods of the transdisciplinary project TRANSIT
MIGRATION, which has been dealing with new
dimensions of transnational migration since 1989. For the
exhibition, the Zurich-based media collective “Labor
k3000” has designed an architecturally open space in
which the theses, methods and the subject matter of the
project are presented. The results of the research, which
are shown in the subsequent rooms, can be traced back to
their creation here.
It was a conscious decision that TRANSIT MIGRATION
did not proceed from Germany but from the exterior borders
of the European Union – in the “periphery,” which
today can be studied as a laboratory of a new relation
between globalised migration and European border policy.
From the perspective of this “periphery” – the former
countries of “guest worker” emigration and the present
centres of global migration – Germany and the “core
Europe” as a whole are pushed to the margins of events
they themselves have effected politically. Researchers
from the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European
Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt/Main have been
conducting field studies of these new developments in
practice. They examined how escape and migration from
Eastern Europe and the global storm-centres establish new
political and social configurations of migration: in Greece,
former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and Germany.
On this basis, TRANSIT MIGRATION has created its
own practice of transdisciplinary collaboration of social
and cultural scientists, cultural producers and political
activists. The statements of the problem, the theoretical
perspectives, the analysis and the realization of the project
were developed collaboratively and brought to discussion
in the international context of two symposia (2004,
Rethymnon/Crete; 2005, Cologne). The theses on
transnational migration (in part fundamental premises, in
part results of the research) provide a first means of orientation
about this collaboration. The research maps present
locations of the research and the scope of the comparative analysis.
Comments on the maps inform about the
course of the meetings and talks. The individual projects
are presented on the research tables in the centre of the
room. The teams have selected documents, newspaper
clippings and photographs that had proven particularly relevant
to their respective project. In interviews by Labor
k3000, the participants explain their approaches, ideas, as
well as noteworthy moments and events. The other elements
in the room . cabinet, bookshelf, maps and files .
elucidate the diverse stages of the research. For instance,
the cabinet comprises brochures sorted by subject, flyers,
newspaper clippings and other ggrey literature,h which
the teams were able to gather during their expeditions.
The files compile secondary literature, essays from
research or cultural production and a gpicture bookh by the
Tele Novela team. The room is an invitation to examine
research as a field of knowledge production, to go more
deeply into the materials, and to commence onefs own
research.
The teams of TRANSIT MIGRATION Research room
are: An Architektur and FFM, Manuela Bojadz.ijev,
Rutvica Andrijas.evicL, Dont Rhine and Elliot Perkins,
Farida Heuk and Birgit zur Nieden, Brigitta Kuster,
Ebru Karaca, Serhat Karakayal. and Sabine Hess,
Labor k3000, Vassilis Tsianos, Efthimia Panagiotidis
and Sophie Goltz, Regina Romhild, Tele Novela,
Z.elimir Z.ilnik
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