Death at the Border: Revisiting the Debate in Light of the Euro-Mediterranean Migration Crisis

Pécoud, Antoine

doi:10.1177/0002764219882987

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“…It is also a space where migration is governed by a multipolar geo‐politics where the Mediterranean plays the role of a chess game with multiple key players and migrant pawns (Garelli et al, 2018; Gillespie & Volpi, 2019). Current EU politics is basically re‐active by creating a hostile environment for Med‐movers that are unable to meet regular human migration corridors (Fekete, 2018; Pécoud, 2020), while criminalizing those social servants working for migrant rescue (Paoletti, 2011; Stierl, 2016). The Mediterranean is definitively viewed as a border space full of filters and conditions basically dominated by a unipolar EU Thalassocracy (Abulafia, 2014) dominance of all the Mediterranean space by concentrating power in the EU and European states.…”

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Mediterranean thinking in migration studies: A methodological regionalism approach

Zapata‐Barrero

2022

International Migration

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Mediterranean thinking in migration studies: A methodological regionalism approach

Zapata‐Barrero

2022

International Migration

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“…In recent years, the maritime border in the Central Mediterranean has attracted considerable scholarship that highlights the deadly consequences for migrants of border controls (Albahari, 2015;Dickson, 2021;Mann, 2018;Pécoud, 2020). The space is marked by refugee's shrinking access to legal asylum procedures and ever-expanding extraterritorial migration control measures.…”

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Governing Through Scalar Elasticity: An Analysis of the Accountability Gap in Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean

Santer

2023

Social & Legal Studies

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Accountability has become elusive in the context of migration control, especially at the external borders of the EU. In the Central Mediterranean, a regime of cooperative interdiction has developed since 2017 whereby migrants fleeing the North African shores by boat are intercepted and forcibly returned to Libya, without ever entering European jurisdiction. This article scrutinises practices of strategic litigation by Italian lawyers who have sought to destabilise this regime of externalised control, which emerged after the 2017 Libya–Italy Memorandum of Understanding. It outlines the difficulties of litigation seeking to challenge deterrence measures and shows the variety of actions lawyers have had to come up with to address Europe and Italy's role in this system. The analysis of this litigation sheds light on the dynamic shape that both sovereignty and migration control take on in transnational contexts of governance, and how legal scales become blurred across local, national, and international jurisdictions. I argue that accountability for migration control is rendered elusive by the fact that Europe's external maritime border is governed via scalar elasticity. In practice, this is a form of governance that takes place across a multiplicity of legal scales, whilst authoritatively referring to statist scalar visions

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“…Also, trans-Saharan migration has amounted to a serious humanitarian situation, with people being smuggled across deadly routes, trapped in detention centers, or dying at sea [5]. The lethal effects of irregular migration have become particularly salient in the Euro Mediterranean region since the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2011, as several thousand migrants have been losing their lives every year [6].…”

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Migrants’ Sexual Violence in the Mediterranean Region: A Regional Analysis

Hadjicharalambous

Parlalis

2021

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Migration in the Mediterranean region has increased greatly during the last years. Reports and studies reveal that violence and injuries among refugees and migrants is a common occurrence in the WHO Europe Region. Available literature indicates that sexual violence incidents take place: (a) during the migratory journey to the host country, (b) while in detention centers, (c) once migrants have reached their destination, and (d) during the period in which a woman is subject of trafficking. This manuscript explores how sexual violence against refugee/immigrant women is presented in the international literature; a narrative review of the literature was conducted on the phenomenon of migration in the Mediterranean area, and specifically on sexual violence of migrant women. In order to face the challenges faced by migrant women victims of sexual violence, the following policies are suggested by international literature: (a) offer emergency medical and health care to sexual violence survivors, which is usually relatively limited, (b) offer mental health care and psychological support for sexual violence when planning services to provide clinical care, and (c) work towards the aim of transforming norms and values in order to promote gender equality and support non-violent behaviours.

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Death at the Border: Revisiting the Debate in Light of the Euro-Mediterranean Migration Crisis

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Mediterranean thinking in migration studies: A methodological regionalism approach

Mediterranean thinking in migration studies: A methodological regionalism approach

Governing Through Scalar Elasticity: An Analysis of the Accountability Gap in Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean

Migrants’ Sexual Violence in the Mediterranean Region: A Regional Analysis

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