Introduction. Transits: History, Memory and Spaces

Camps and places of transit assume relevance in certain contexts and in relation to specific events of the contemporary age. From genocide to voluntary or forced migration, from camps for prisoners of war to the management of refugees in conflicts or catastrophes and in the phases of the transition to normality that follow such events, places of transit can be used for different, sometimes opposing, purposes such as the control and/ or elimination of certain social groups, or the protection of persons for humanitarian purposes.