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 Kühnemund 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, Kühnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice.
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Jan Kühnemund (Dr.), geb. 1975, erlangte seinen Doktorgrad an der Universität der Künste Berlin (Ud K) und hat zudem einen Master-Abschluss in Politikwissenschaft, Visuelle Medien und Englisch. Er arbeitet an der Europa-Universität Flensburg. Von 2010 bis 2017 war er an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg tätig und koordiniert den Erasmus Mundus-Masterstudiengang »European Migration and Intercultural Relations« (EMMIR). Zudem arbeitet er als freier Journalist.
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