The video MigraTouriSpace is the result of the current art and research project by Stefanie Bürkle. MigraTouriSpace deals with traveling as an approach to the phenomena of migration and tourism. Migration and tourism research have for a long time remained largely attached to the ideal of sedentariness. Tourism was usually defined as a temporary break from sedentary daily life, and tourists were contrasted with an immobile local population. Accordingly, migration was seen as a temporary process of moving from one place of sedentariness to another, and only the conflicts between the migrants’ “brought culture” and the host society’s “locally rooted culture” received attention (Lenz 2010). The project MIGRATOURISPACE explores the overlapping of migration and tourism. Spatial migration means migration in which spaces migrate with people (Bürkle 2002). Tourism no longer means vacation as a state of emergency, but also experiences integrated into everyday life. The places selected as case studies in Korea and Germany, the Vietnamese wholesale center Dong Xuan Center in Berlin Lichtenberg, the German village Dogil Maeul in South Korea, stand for the field of tension between a migration of culturally coded spatial contexts and tourist practices.
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