Description
This project examines boat migration across the English Channel as I investigate the types of spaces and materialities that are created and experienced within the journeys made. My research comprises of vessel analyses of boats that reflect three key types of boat space: carceral, rescue, and non-white. These spaces are fluid and are not confined to themselves; vessels can be sites reflecting multiple spaces at once. By ‘space’, I refer to Doreen Massey’s definition, which sees space as that which is socially constituted and always under construction, and spatiality to mean the politics within such a space. Boat migration with a focus on spatiality will be examined on the theoretical bases of wet ontology and Object-Oriented ontology, both of which I use to work towards a decolonial examination of understanding and portraying boat spaces within, and beyond, migratory journeys.
