Migrant support volunteer tourism facing crises: Patchwork autoethnographies on Lesvos (Greece)

G Di Matteo, L Daminelli - Tourist Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The island of Lesvos serves as a symbol of migration in the Mediterranean. From 2015
onwards, a steady stream of volunteer tourists began working on the island. Between 2019 …

Resistance or exclusion? The paradoxes of volunteer tourism, migration, and memorialization nexuses

G Di Matteo - Tourism Geographies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Lampedusa (Italy) and Lesvos (Greece) have become significant locations where
the interaction between migration and tourism is expressed through the presence of …

Volunteer tourism and lived space: representations and experiences from Lesvos

FL Cavallo, G Di Matteo - Tourism Recreation Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In recent decades, the island of Lesvos (North Aegean, Greece) has become a stepping
stone on migrants' routes to Europe, attracting volunteer tourism aimed at providing support …

Guests on the Aegean: interactions between migrants and volunteers at Europe's southern border

A Knott - Mobilities, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Many would-be tourists were dissuaded from vacationing on Greece's Aegean islands in
2016, in the aftermath of 2015's 'migrant crisis'. However, the islands witnessed an …

[PDF][PDF] 10 Memorial tourism and citizen humanitarianism

G Di Matteo - This innovative and important book highlights the …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
The island of Lesvos (North Aegean, Greece) has become an emblematic place for
migration in the Mediterranean. Over the last two decades, an increasing number of people …

Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis

E Burrai, D Sterchele - Tourism Geographies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Volunteer tourism has long represented a fruitful realm for the application of geographic
perspectives and has greatly benefitted from them. Yet, despite the progress made through …

Migrant support volunteer tourism in border-islands

G Di Matteo - 2023 - torrossa.com
I am finishing writing this book during an unique time in our history, following two years of
the first global pandemic of the modern era, during which all human beings on the planet …

Autoethnographic journeys through contested spaces

J Shepherd, D Laven, L Shamma - Annals of Tourism Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Stemming from a frustration with the rigidity of categories within tourism studies and their
associated violence of finalization and narrative entrapment, this paper sets out to trouble …

De-Bordering Narratives on Tourism and Migration. A Participatory Action-Research on Two Innovative Italian Practices.

P Musaro, M Moralli - Italian Journal of Sociology of …, 2019 - ijse.padovauniversitypress.it
In a world where freedom of movement becomes the main factor of social stratification,
tourism and migration can be analysed as two sides of the same coin. These interrelated …

Being at home and away: transnational entanglements of tourism and migration in Sardinia, Italy

E Burrai, C Cherchi, N De Martini Ugolotti… - Journal of Tourism …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …