Remediando la Frontera Digital

This chapter explores the functional and narrative patterns of videos recorded by sub-Saharan migrants at the Spanish-Moroccan border and their extensions beyond the Schengen area to understand how their first-person counter-narratives remediate the "digital border" (Chouliaraki & Georgiou, 2019) before, during, and after the so-called European migration "crisis" of 2015. To do so, we analyze four sets of videos made in 2009, 2015, 2019, and 2020 that have circulated on three different levels (private, closed online networks, and social media) to demonstrate how they constitute acts of resistance against the reinforcement of a necropolitical border regime under cover of a permanent "crisis" narrative.