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Title: | Forced immobility : undocumented migrants, boats, Brussels, and islands |
Authors: | Baldacchino, Godfrey |
Keywords: | Arrest Boats and boating Forced migration -- Cases Islands -- Case studies |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Transfers |
Citation: | Baldacchino, G. (2021). Forced immobility: undocumented migrants, boats, Brussels, and islands. Transfers, 11(1), 76-91 |
Abstract: | Over April and May 2020, some 425 undocumented male migrants, mainly of Sub-Saharan origin, making the perilous crossing by boat from Libya toward Europe across the central Mediterranean, were saved and taken aboard by Maltese search and rescue vessels. However, instead of being immediately ported and disembarked, they were transferred to four “pleasure boats” and left bobbing on the high seas, some for forty days, while the Maltese government sought out other European countries who might be willing to take in some of them. Th is article uses this episode to foreground the manner in which boats and ships are serving as floating islands, also in international waters, producing a modern form of forced immobility and arrest. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/81859 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtSoc |
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