ABSTRACT

In this study, we discuss the intersection between tourism and migration. In doing so we interrogate how tourism and migration meet, interrelate, overlap and merge in multifaceted and fluid ways. We draw upon literature on transnational migration and on Sarah Ahmed’s work on the relationship between ‘strange encounters’ and home. These theoretical perspectives enable us to move away from an ‘ontology of the stranger’ and polarised views on migration and tourism. We investigate these issues through semi-structured interviews with people with different migration backgrounds and migration-related experiences who revolve around the Sardinia tourism industry. Our discussion unveils the entrenched inequalities and unexpected resources that people with different experiences of migration live and mobilise to reconfigure and expand notions of home through their involvement in the tourism industry. Our discussion underlines how processes of regrounding and the shaping of transnational ties between countries of origin and migration can exceed the remit and frameworks of initiatives to ‘integrate’ migrants through tourism. Drawing on the participants’ accounts and experiences of uprooting and regrounding, we contend that different identities and multiple notions of home can emerge from the uneven relationship between tourism and migration.

摘要

在本研究中，我们讨论旅游与移民之间的交叉点。在此过程中，我们探究旅游业和移民如何以多方面和流动的方式相遇、相互关联、重叠和融合。我们借鉴了有关跨国移民的文献以及莎拉·艾哈迈德关于“奇怪的遭遇”与家乡之间关系的著作。这些理论观点使我们能够摆脱“陌生人的本体论”以及对移民和旅游的两极分化的观点。我们通过对撒丁岛旅游业具有不同移民背景和移民相关经验的人进行半结构化访谈来调查这些问题。我们的讨论揭示了具有不同移民经历的人们所生活的根深蒂固的不平等和意想不到的资源，并通过参与旅游业来重新配置和扩展家园的概念。我们的讨论强调了原籍国和移民之间的重新落地过程和跨国关系的塑造如何超出通过旅游业“融合”移民的倡议的职权范围和框架。根据参与者的叙述以及背井离乡和重新安置的经历，我们认为，旅游与移民之间的不平衡关系可能会产生不同的身份和多重家园概念。我们的讨论强调了原籍国和移民之间的重新落地过程和跨国关系的塑造如何超出通过旅游业“融合”移民的倡议的职权范围和框架。根据参与者的叙述以及背井离乡和重新安置的经历，我们认为，旅游与移民之间的不平衡关系可能会产生不同的身份和多重家园概念。我们的讨论强调了原籍国和移民之间的重新落地过程和跨国关系的塑造如何超出通过旅游业“融合”移民的倡议的职权范围和框架。根据参与者的叙述以及背井离乡和重新安置的经历，我们认为，旅游与移民之间的不平衡关系可能会产生不同的身份和多重家园概念。