Borders and race: a violent intersection
From the externalised borders of the EU to the centre of Swiss and European cities, migrant and racialised people are overexposed to forms of violence. Building upon Border Forensics’ investigations on cases of violence, this roundtable seeks to explore the intersection of race and structural racism with state borders and the extent to which they shape the violence migrants are subjected to. Documenting violent practices through the use of different types of data (images, testimonies, statistics, etc.) is crucial to contest them, including but not exclusively in the courts of law. But how can we mitigate the risk that these strategies of documentation reproduce the dehumanisation of racialised subjects?
Cristina Del Biaggio
Senior Lecturer (Grenoble-Alpes University, Pacte Laboratory)
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Sani Ladan
Researcher, social educator and intercultural mediator specialising in international migration
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Frédéric Choffat
Filmmaker
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Stanislas Michel
Geostatistical analysis expert at Border Forensics
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Munia Hassoun
Researcher and lecturer (EPFL)
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Elio Panese
Researcher at Border Forensics and doctoral student (UNIL)
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Charles Heller
Director of Research at Border Forensics and SNSF Professor at the University of Bern
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