Transit Border Lives and Blurring Solidarities

Natalia Ribas-Mateos ^*

• Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

This article discusses Transit Border Lives and Blurring solidarities in relation with the main findings to be found in the book "A message to you. A Cartography of Mobilities. Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities. The methodology is based on different video-debates (video filmed in the Mediterranean and shown in London and Paris), which reveal the complexities of the role of sexual border violence and today's solidarities. Most participants in the debates turn criticism from themselves by blaming the law, international bodies, migration policies in the EU, -never themselves-them needing for an effort on reflexivity. Diversity and diaspora are reviewed in the context of global cities . The multi-situated, participatory study, which employs a visual anthropology approach and a "grounded research" methodology, raises numerous questions that are also explored in the debates. Topics covered include the selection of fieldwork, with references to other fields such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), Me Too, and cancel culture.The main overall question of the article implies a recalibration of the meaning of the place of sexual violence -in transit-; in the construction of the modern. It invites us to explore forms of domination or total domination on how we can conceive extreme violence in places like borders, secondly it calls into question the feminist movements and diaspora movements in placing women stories,