Contemporary Camps and the RMD
摘要
This chapter begins by zooming out to look at (im)mobility more broadly, examining how and why it is limited on a global scale through what I have termed the Restrictive Migration Dispositif (RMD). The following section examines how the discursive production of a ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Greece in 2015 suggested, structured and legitimised a specific set of responses, including but not limited to, the policy of encampment. The chapter then identifies two campscapes that emerged within the same national context—the island hotspots and the mainland camps—and locates both within the broader RMD, analysing how they functioned in practice to limit mobility through temporal as well as spatial techniques. The chapter concludes with a more detailed look at the role of time in the camp and a brief overview of the demographics of Ritsona in order to offer some insight into who was actually living in the camp, and why.