Comprendre le lieu par le monde. Apparition et croissance d’un “rhizome criminel” russo-italien sur la frontière franco-espagnole

Abstract

Proposed by the Chicago School, the concept of a moral area was used during the XXth century to understand how cosmopolitanism, especially nocturnal and dependent on various often illicit activities, is able to satisfy affective and economic needs, mingling populations with very varied origins and statuses by urban mobilities, has served as a powerful motor of legal activities of the metropolis. The authors recall this concept in defining the metropolis as a step and by including it in that of “transnational circulatory territories” to describe the appearance of a “rhizome of criminal globalization” – prostitution and drugs –, on the Mediterranean Franco-Spanish border of Per­thus-La Junquera. In this article, they point to the European transmigration of Balkan and Caucasian women towards the prostitution clubs of eastern Spain.

Keywords

• criminal globalization
• female migrations
• illicit traffic
• Black Sea
• Eastern Spain