To Make Live and Let Die: On Sovereignty and Vulnerability in the EU Migration Regime

Gebhardt, Mareike

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“…Studies on search and rescue in the Mediterranean have brought to the fore several conflicts that have motivated actors to engage in this field (Cusumano & Villa, 2021;Cuttitta, 2017;Irrera, 2016;Stierl, 2018) or that arise from this intervention (Cusumano, 2017;Ehrmann, 2021;Farahat & Markard, 2020;Gebhardt, 2020;Laube & Eisleb, 2021). The following collection of conflicts serves as a starting point to approach the dissent on (civilian) SAR in the Mediterranean Sea.…”

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“…SAR NGOs have received both praise and serious criticism (Cusumano & Villa, 2021) for saving persons in distress coming from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East from drowning. The dissent that has emerged in debates about their involvement ranges from the claim that refugees should not be left to die (Gebhardt, 2020) to questioning the boundaries of the demos or the demand of a clear prioritisation of national security interests.…”

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Search and rescue NGOs as a focal point in debates on the reception of refugees in the EU: Research essay on an Italian and German case study

Laube,

Ullrich

2023

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After criticising a lack of rescue capacities and an increase in border deaths at the maritime EU external borders, search and rescue (SAR) NGOs have been sending out vessels since 2014. While the responsibility for SAR lies with the coastal states, we start from the assumption that these NGOs have now become part of the border regime. They pursue different activities to make the border regime, in their view, more humane and in line with European legal and moral obligations, and aim to mobilise a broader network supporting their activities. We observe a variety of actors – including churches, political actors, and civil society organisations – contributing to controversial public debates on their intervention. In our ZivDem project, we argue that various positions and conflicts around the reception of irregular migrants and refugees in Europe crystallise in the dissent on private SAR operations. In this research essay, we present a comparative research design to show how to analyse this dissent and how it plays out concretely in public debates in different member states. We focus – in a first approach – on recent events surrounding SAR NGOs and reactions in Italy and Germany to gain insights into the debates and reflect on emerging lines of conflict. Both national and transnational dimensions are taken into account. We conclude with the hypothesis that ultimately the debates are about different visions of European democracy.

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Search and rescue NGOs as a focal point in debates on the reception of refugees in the EU: Research essay on an Italian and German case study

Laube,

Ullrich

2023

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“…The last transformation of neoliberalism is necropolitics, the governmental technic that decides which populations must die (Gebhardt, 2020;Gržinić, 2017). Now, with the Covid-19 pandemic and the generalized state of violence, and economic and climate crisis, necropolitics has accelerated its imposition in the world, and even the most prosperous cities and countries can be changed into worlds of death in which the necropolitical powers must decide who lives and who dies.…”

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The Covid-19 Pandemic in the Age of Necropolitics: Challenges for Liberation Theologies

Jiménez¹

2022

Khazanah Theologia

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The pandemic Covid19 is not only a medical emergency but also a major economic and political crisis, including the existence of a neoliberal transformation called necropolitics namely the determination of who should die. This article aims to offer liberation theology in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research results show liberation and contextual theologies will be critical in future battles against necropolitical policies. The Covid-19 pandemic is not creating a new reality, but rather exposing and radicalizing existing realities - necropolitical realities - all over the world. Liberation and contextual theologies will be critical in future battles against necropolitical policies. The church must listen to what marginalized communities have to say, and liberation and contextual theologies must listen to what other theologies have to say. A liberation narrative must be declared, in which all liberative narratives can find a space of openness. While hegemonic narratives are imposed, the Gospel of Life, Justice, Joy, and Liberation has the potential to open previously closed horizons. Even under necropolitical regimes, there is good news.

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A society of migration: Poststructuralist perspectives on the constitution of society and the production of migration

Delitz

2024

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article addresses the gap in sociological theory concerning the politics of ‘migration’ – even though this area of politics and the debates surrounding it are of social salience and relevance. Both in social theory (the question of what society actually is or how it is constituted) and in the social analysis of modernity, the topic of migration plays a role no more than en passent. Nevertheless, there are sociological theories that allow us to shed light on debates, practices, institutions, and infrastructures of migration. The article focuses on poststructuralist and postcolonial theories in order to think modern society as ‘society of migration’, i.e. as a society which is constituted by the production of migration and migrants, as well as by the migrant subjects themselves.

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To Make Live and Let Die: On Sovereignty and Vulnerability in the EU Migration Regime

Cited by 22 publications

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Search and rescue NGOs as a focal point in debates on the reception of refugees in the EU: Research essay on an Italian and German case study

Search and rescue NGOs as a focal point in debates on the reception of refugees in the EU: Research essay on an Italian and German case study

The Covid-19 Pandemic in the Age of Necropolitics: Challenges for Liberation Theologies

A society of migration: Poststructuralist perspectives on the constitution of society and the production of migration

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