Migration Across the Mediterranean: Shaping Italy-Libya Relations Over Time
Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn,
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
Abstract:Libya has been a central focus of European migration management across the Mediterranean for the past two-three decades, becoming particularly salient in 2015–2016. Italy has been involved in a gradual accumulation of agreements with Libya and in recent years also involving the EU. Italy’s prior and contested colonial history in Libya has shaped the close economic ties between the two countries following Libyan independence. Both the colonial history and economic collaboration in turn play an important part in… Show more
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