subjects'. Activists as well as academics should take seriously the ways in which migrants and their movement across borders are internal to and agents of the profound changes that the sovereign power, citizenship and political agency itself are undergoing (Andrijasevic, 2008b: 12). In Lesvos it was possible to appreciate the energy liberated in the space of the No Border camp as a very mundane space of encounter between migrants and non-migrants. At the same time one should honestly acknowledge the within the hierarchy of materiality of the different social positionalities mobilities created by the £U migration regime. The migrant women in the open centre were not necessarily interested in the 'political activity1 of the campists. However, the communication developed between them and the European women in that context can be interpreted as a mutual exchange between the activists (and researchers) curious to understand the trajectories of migrants, and the migrant women who approached the activists as a source of knowledge to learn about life, possibilities of work and education in Europe. Still, many migrant women remained resistant to narrating their own stories, their past migratory paths ... This should pose the question of why for lus' is it so important to know about lthemJ?We may start fromthe acknowledgement of our different'locations' to trace new maps of relationality, complicity and common struggles. author biography Gabriella Alberti is a PhD student in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Her research project is on 'The gendered dimension of transnational mobility and temporariness: emerging subjectivities of migrant women in London's hospitality sector'. references Andrijasevic,R. (2006) 'Lampedusa in focus: migrantscaught between the Libyandesert and the deep Sea' FeministReview, Vol. 82: 120-125. Andrijasevic,R. (2008a) 'Gendered migrationand differentiatedinclusion' Re-public. http://www . re-public.gr/en/?p=470. html, accessed 30 September 2009. Andrijasevic, R. (2008b) lDa eccezione a eccesso: detenzione e deportazioni nello spazio del Mediterrâneo'Rassegna di dirittopubblico europeo, Vol. VII, No. 1: 251-271. De Génova, N. (2002) 'Migrant "Illegality" and deportability in everyday life' Annual Review of Anthropology,31: 419-447. De Lauretis, T. (1987) Technologiesof Gender. Essays on Theory,Film, and Fiction, Houndmillsand London: Macmillan Press. EC (2008) Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Common Standards and nationals (as published Proceduresin MemberStates for returningillegallystayingthird-country in the official JournalL348 of 24.12.2008). HRW-Human RightsWatch (2008) Stuck in a RevolvingDoor. Iraqis and OtherAsylumSeekers and Entrance to the European Union, November2008. Migrantsat the Greece/Turkey 146 feminist review 94 2010 of Lesvos acrosstheborders This content downloaded from 163.1.255.60 on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:57:53 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 6 These reflections emerged in conversationwith Êrene Kaptani, an activist and practitionerworking withmigrantminors detained in Lesvos. The conversation occurred at a private meetingin London,KingsCross on 20 September 2009 followingthe No Bordercamp.