Las imágenes como equipaje en la investigación de la movilidad mediterránea: instrumentos y tensiones

Time after time, migration studies tend to make use of ancient travel myths to recall the living experiences of contemporary mobility, sometimes to highlight an expression of mourning and sometimes to insist on a venturesome, enterprising nature of modern mobility. Sometimes there are images of travellers, adventurous heroes, people forced to leave their lands, others fighting for survival or some kind of social mobility. This article provides an opportunity to discuss some questions related to the use of images in fieldwork (in social sciences research) in the Mediterranean region by using some examples, thus offering a specific arena in which to discuss mobility in the Euro-Mediterranean space.