MIGRIMAGE project (ERAMUS+KA203) has developed an online course where you can learn about the different migratory realities of the borders of southern Europe, both in the south of Spain, including the land borders of Ceuta and Melilla, and in the south of Italy and the island of Lesbos in Greece.
The aim of this MOOC is to be an integrated educational tool in relation to the other two training tools that the MIGRIMAGE project has set in motion: the master’s degree Mediterranean Border and Communication Studies and the webdoc Escape Europe. Also, this MOOC function as an autonomous training tool, aimed at all those people who want to learn about the main context items of the southern European border.
The contents of this MOOC aim to show the connections between three border spaces along the Mediterranean Sea. The interrelationship is important because border policies move and mutate from one space to another over time. Connecting these spaces will provide students with an in-depth insight into both the general border context and its specific particularities.
For the development of the proposed contents, we have made presentations on different border issues based on travelling concepts. These concepts are used to interrelate the spaces as a common ground, decentralizing the understanding of the borders to a level of abstraction greater than its specific agents or events.
Finally, we do not only want to include issues related to border management, industry, externalization, or the general lack of human rights. Moreover, we wanted to show common spaces of migrant autonomy and civil society organization in support of the freedom of movement. We share initiatives that are and can be implemented beyond the borders, with the aim of building a network for learning and exchange. By assembling these geographies of disputes and resistances, a space is created in which to imagine the common, a community that problematizes its own boundaries, and which becomes duly inoperative.
