Architectures of Fictionalized Hospitality: A Spatial Research on the EU Border Externalization | millonaliu

Italy has an agreement with Albania on migration and asylum. In Architectures of Fictionalized Hospitality, millonaliu investigates what this means for the role of architecture when it comes to the accommodation of migrants and refugees. The study raises fundamental questions about how architecture is used as a tool of an inequitable migration system. The inherently inhumane nature of the current migration and refuge system is called into question, as is the complicit role architecture as a discipline plays in it The research uses spatial analysis, site observations, community engagement and evaluations of EU border policy and its implications for the Netherlands. In this way, it questions this form of border management and the role of architecture in it, in order to ultimately achieve a more hospitable migration and refuge system.