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The Mediterranean as a carceral seascape

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Stierl, Maurice (2021) The Mediterranean as a carceral seascape. Political Geography, 88 . 102417. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102417

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Abstract

In May 2019, 75 distressed migrants fleeing Libya were rescued by the merchant vessel Maridive 601 in the central Mediterranean Sea. With Italy, Malta, and Tunisia denying permission to disembark, the merchant vessel turned from a floating refuge into an offshore carceral space, leaving the migrants stranded near the Tunisian coast for 19 days. This article traces the migratory trajectories of the Maridive 75, as I will collectively refer to them, in order to show how EUrope’s desire to deter, capture, and contain migrant mobilities has transformed the Mediterranean Sea into a carceral seascape. While offshore carcerality is not specific to EUrope’s southern maritime border and also not a novel phenomenon, increasingly restrictive migration policies have dramatically reshaped the Mediterranean borderzone over recent years, multiplying infrastructures, technologies, and spaces of confinement. Interrogating the Mediterranean Sea as a carceral space generates insights into an ever-growing panoply of carceral but mobile forms of governance seeking to discipline and police unauthorised and precarious human movements, both at sea and on land. At the same time, as this article demonstrates, unruly migrant mobilities and struggles at sea continue to expose the often-conflictual processes at work in the production of the Mediterranean carceral seascape.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Mediterranean Sea, Imprisonment -- Mediterranean Sea, Detention of persons -- Mediterranean Sea, Movement (Philosophy) -- Mediterranean Sea, Immigrants -- Political aspects -- Mediterranean Region , Emigration and immigration -- Mediterranean Region , Mediterranean Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects, Boat people -- Mediterranean Region
Journal or Publication Title: Political Geography
Publisher: Elsevier Science Inc.
ISSN: 0962-6298
Official Date: June 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
June 2021Published
3 June 2021Available
30 April 2021Accepted
Volume: 88
Article Number: 102417
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102417
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDLeverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
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