Refugees' perception of the shape of Europe: The case from Kos

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  • Tomasz Padło UKEN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2025.24.1.6990

Keywords:

Europe, refugees, perception, sketch maps

Abstract

In 2016, 49 interviews were conducted with migrants on the Greek island of Kos, as well as a several conversations on the Hungarian-Serbian and Macedonian-Greek borders. The interviews were supplemented with a request to draw a map of Europe. The analysis of the obtained sketch maps revealed a clear West-centrism, spatial egocentrism, the influence of the experience of the "road" on the perception of space, and a linear perception of space, reminiscent of historical maps of pilgrimage routes.

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Published

2025-06-30

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): New migrations, new narratives. The contemporary migration experience: patterns-strategies-contexts

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Padło, T. (2025). Refugees’ perception of the shape of Europe: The case from Kos. Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 24(1), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2025.24.1.6990