Topographies of Borderland Schengen Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands (Paperback)

Paperback. Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kuehnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical framework, he conceptualises `Borderland Schengen' as a visual-political transnational space emerging from the interplay of migration movements and border policies. Putting the spaces and iconologies of `illegal' migration under scrutiny and aiming at establishing their protagonists as subjects, Kuehnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice. Analysing recent documentary films, the book seeks to investigate the interplay between European migration policies and image discourses in the emerging transnational space "Borderland Schengen". Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…