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The Mediterranean: Migration Corridor, Border Spectacle, Ethical Landscape
Talk of a ‘migration crisis’ calls forth three related spatial renderings of the Mediterranean Sea. Their social production involves a particular politics of visualization. First, the Mediterranean is but one leg of a longer migration corridor, yet as such substantiates a geo-racial border zone. Second, scenes of rescue at sea have functioned as border spectacles, naturalizing migration politics. Third, expanding surveillance infrastructure has undermined a firewall between border patrolling and search-and-rescue, thereby helping to create and sustain an ethical landscape of response-ability to routinized emergency. Visualizing and disseminating this landscape has, for the moment, created a political space between wanted and unwanted mobilities.
The Mediterranean: Migration Corridor, Border Spectacle, Ethical Landscape
Talk of a ‘migration crisis’ calls forth three related spatial renderings of the Mediterranean Sea. Their social production involves a particular politics of visualization. First, the Mediterranean is but one leg of a longer migration corridor, yet as such substantiates a geo-racial border zone. Second, scenes of rescue at sea have functioned as border spectacles, naturalizing migration politics. Third, expanding surveillance infrastructure has undermined a firewall between border patrolling and search-and-rescue, thereby helping to create and sustain an ethical landscape of response-ability to routinized emergency. Visualizing and disseminating this landscape has, for the moment, created a political space between wanted and unwanted mobilities.
The Mediterranean: Migration Corridor, Border Spectacle, Ethical Landscape
van Reekum, Rogier (author)
2016-01-01
van Reekum , R 2016 , ' The Mediterranean: Migration Corridor, Border Spectacle, Ethical Landscape ' , Mediterranean Politics , vol. 21 , no. 2 , pp. 336-341 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2016.1145828
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English