The borders of responsibility : migration control in the Mediterranean Sea / Kiri Santer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santer, Kiri, 1991- Author.

Series:

Global and insurgent legalities http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/d5daa7e2-eaed-e309-b064-096d59d2287b

Global and insurgent legalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Mediterranean Region.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration law--European Union countries.

Emigration and immigration law.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--European Union countries.

Refugees.

Human rights--European Union countries.

Human rights.

Mediterranean Region--Emigration and immigration.

Mediterranean Region.

European Union countries--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

European Union countries.

Italy--Foreign relations--Libya.

Italy.

Libya--Foreign relations--Italy.

Libya.

European Economic Community countries--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

European Economic Community countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Migration control in the Mediterranean Sea

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026

Summary:

"While migrants face many dangers in attempting to reach Europe-from drowning to dying of dehydration on the open sea-they also confront an increasingly elaborate legal system that has sprung up between First World and Third World countries, a system designed to return migrants to their countries of origin and keep them out of Europe completely. In The Borders of Responsibility, Kiri Santer provides a thorough account of the architecture of these legal systems and how they are designed to 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 a post-Gaddafi Libya or in their home countries. Through ethnographic fieldwork with migrants, lawyers, and humanitarian workers, The Borders of Responsibility shows how law is too often used as an instrument of violence against migrants, who fall outside of conventional structures of legal rights"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Tense rescues and double standards

Colonial legacies and the regulation of mobility between Libya and Europe

Coast guards and the legal architecture of interdiction

Offshore containment industries at the margins of Europe

Assembling delegated control

Border violence and the fragmentation of responsibility

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE, viewed July 29, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Santer, Kiri, 1991- Borders of responsibility.

ISBN:

9781478094494

1478094494

9781478062271

1478062274

OCLC:

1592098711

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access