Responsibility, Emergency, Blame: Reporting on Migrant Deaths on the Mediterranean in the Council of Europe

Follis, Karolina

doi:10.1080/14754835.2014.987737

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“…In the aftermath Italian authorities held a day of mourning for the deceased. The Italians had previously attempted to ignore the presence of migrants entering their territory; according to numerous reports by PICUM (2018), their ships had ignored refugees in distress at sea (see also Follis, 2015; Heller and Pezzani, 2016). Following the day of mourning, they launched ‘Mare Nostrum’, an operation in which the coastguard came to the rescue of people in migrant boats.…”

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Knowledge/recognition: Counting and the predicament of the permeable biopolitical state

Johansen

2018

Theoretical Criminology

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This article draws a model for viewing border politics based on experiences in Norway. The starting point is that the authorities do not count irregular resident migrants and openly refuse to help this group. While this makes governing this group harder, this choice makes sense from the point of view of the problem of sovereignty. Border policies in general and the decision not to count is a solution to ‘the predicament of permeable nation states in an age of migration’. What is not openly admitted is a tolerance for administrative efforts that both channel assistance to irregular migrants and keep track of their numbers. There is a general denial of the predicament, but also a strong tendency to ‘adapt’. The article examines the situation in Norway, but there are reasons to believe that the predicament defines politics in the EU and elsewhere.

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Knowledge/recognition: Counting and the predicament of the permeable biopolitical state

Johansen

2018

Theoretical Criminology

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“…The academic literature on border deaths hardly engages with this newly available empirical data on sea arrivals and mortality. 3 Most scholarly work related to migrant death instead focuses on migration policy (Patalano, 2015; Tazzioli, 2016), its international (human rights) law implications (Follis, 2015; Grant, 2011; Trevisanut, 2014) or the lived experiences of individual migrants and aid workers (Del Valle, 2016; Scott-Smith, 2016; Squire et al, 2017). We believe that each of these areas could benefit from a more comprehensive treatment of statistical data.…”

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A Contested Crisis: Policy Narratives and Empirical Evidence on Border Deaths in the Mediterranean

Steinhilper

Gruijters

2018

Sociology

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Death and suffering of migrants at Europe's Mediterranean Sea border has become one of the defining moral and political issues of our time. While humanitarian organisations argue that deaths result from Europe's policy of exclusion and closure, those employing a deterrenceoriented narrative have argued for even stricter border controls. Perhaps because of its contentious nature, the debate is often devoid of systematic information on the drivers and dynamics of border deaths. This study contributes to our understanding of border deaths in the Mediterranean region in three ways: it describes and evaluates recent data sources on migration and mortality; it provides a descriptive statistical analysis of absolute and relative mortality risks between 2010 and 2016; and it assesses the relationship between European border policy and border deaths. Our findings challenge the dominant deterrence-oriented policy narrative and highlight the failure of European authorities to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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“…However, the jurisdictional consequences of the technology-enabled shifts of sovereign vision remain officially unacknowledged. Building on my own research on European responses to boat disasters on the Mediterranean (Follis 2015) and on the work of others who show how EU border policies exacerbate the migratory crisis (Albahari 2015; Mountz and Loyd 2014; Human Rights Watch [HRW] 2009; Weber and Pickering 2011; Spijkerboer 2007), I ask, how and for whom are jurisdictional boundaries manipulated? What are the legal and political benefits of these shifts and who is hoping to reap them?…”

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Vision and Transterritory

Follis

2017

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This essay is about the role of visual surveillance technologies in the policing of the external borders of the European Union (EU). Based on an analysis of documents published by EU institutions and independent organizations, I argue that these technological innovations fundamentally alter the nature of national borders. I discuss how new technologies of vision are deployed to transcend the physical limits of territories. In the last twenty years, EU member states and institutions have increasingly relied on various forms of remote tracking, including the use of drones for the purposes of monitoring frontier zones. In combination with other facets of the EU border management regime (such as transnational databases and biometrics), these technologies coalesce into a system of governance that has enabled intervention into neighboring territories and territorial waters of other states to track and target migrants for interception in the “prefrontier.” For jurisdictional reasons, this practice effectively precludes the enforcement of legal human rights obligations, which European states might otherwise have with regard to these persons. This article argues that this technologically mediated expansion of vision has become a key feature of post–cold war governance of borders in Europe. The concept of transterritory is proposed to capture its effects.

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Responsibility, Emergency, Blame: Reporting on Migrant Deaths on the Mediterranean in the Council of Europe

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Knowledge/recognition: Counting and the predicament of the permeable biopolitical state

Knowledge/recognition: Counting and the predicament of the permeable biopolitical state

A Contested Crisis: Policy Narratives and Empirical Evidence on Border Deaths in the Mediterranean

Vision and Transterritory

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