This essay and the photographs examine visual traces of irregular mobility in the border landscape between Italy and France. The ruined buildings and objects witness decades of movement of undocumented people on this old migrant path across the mountains. By taking the theoretical concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) the essay argues that the Path of Hope can be thought of as a memory site through which the issues of migration in contemporary Europe can be seen in a more sustainable light. The ruins and discarded objects link memories of different places – including different border zones – in ways that allow us to critically examine borders as a practice – rather than as existing dividing lines. Reading visuality of this border zone allows one to imagine a migrant’s vision of the landscape.

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自由生活或死不动：从意大利到法国的移民之路

本文和照片考察了意大利和法国之间边界景观中不规则流动的视觉痕迹。毁坏的建筑物和物体见证了数十名无证人员在这条古老的移民道路上穿越山脉。通过采用多向记忆的理论概念（Rothberg，2009年），文章认为希望之路可以被视为一个记忆场所，通过它可以更可持续地看待当代欧洲的移民问题。废墟和废弃的物体将不同地方（包括不同边界区域）的记忆联系在一起，从而使我们可以作为一种实践而不是现有的分界线来严格地检查边界。阅读该边界区域的可视性可以使人们想象移民对景观的看法。