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The Borders of Responsibility

Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea
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While migrants face many dangers in attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea-from drowning to dying of dehydration-they also confront an elaborate legal system that is designed to return them to their countries of origin. In The Borders of Responsibility, Kiri Olivia Santer outlines the architecture of these legal systems and how they help Europe evade legal responsibility for rescuing migrants. Focusing on legal agreements between Italy and Libya that have resulted in the systematic interception of migrants, Santer shows how Europe's liberal identity is belied by legal agreements that let migrants die at sea or that send them back to dangerous, exploitative situations in post-Gaddafi Libya or their home countries. Law, she argues, is the tool that enables states to affect control beyond territory, whilst disappearing their responsibility for violence across border assemblages. Through ethnographic fieldwork with migrants, lawyers, policy makers, and humanitarian workers, Santer shows how the law is too often used as an instrument of violence against migrants, who fall outside of conventional structures of legal rights.
Kiri Olivia Santer is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institution of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern.
Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Tense Rescues and Double Standards 23 2. Colonial Legacies and the Regulation of Mobility Between Libya and Europe 52 3. Coast Guards and the Legal Architecture of Interdiction 73 4. Offshore Containment Industries at the Margins of Europe 89 5. Assembling Delegated Control 117 6. Border Violence and the Fragmentation of Responsibility 147 Conclusion 176 Notes 187 References 215 Index
"A sophisticated and nuanced understanding of how migrants' movements across the Central Mediterranean are conditioned and contained through the EU's strategy of border externalization."-Gregory Feldman, author of, The Subject of Sovereignty: Relationality and the Pivot past Liberalism "A fascinating and original discussion of pushbacks, pullbacks, coastguards, maritime rescue zones, legal gaps, political games, and humanitarian logistics. Santer's experience on NGO rescue boats adds powerful insight, nuance, and affect to the account."-William Walters, editor of, Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion
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