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dc.contributor.author | Mainwaring, Ċetta | - |
dc.contributor.author | DeBono, Daniela | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-25T09:00:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-25T09:00:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Mainwaring, Ċ., & DeBono, D. (2021). Criminalizing solidarity: search and rescue in a neo-colonial sea. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(5), 1030-1048. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87559 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rescued over 110,000 people in the Central Mediterranean Sea between 2015 and 2017. From 2017, EU member states and agencies increasingly criminalized these organizations, accusing them of ‘colluding with smugglers’ and acting as a pull factor. In this climate, as Italy, Malta and the EU increased cooperation with Libya to stop people from taking to the seas, many suspended their operations. This article explores the search and rescue efforts of NGOs in the Central Mediterranean Sea between 2014 and 2018. We examine the criminalization of this NGO activity and argue that it is made possible through an oscillating neo-colonial imagination of the sea as mare nostrum and mare nullius, our sea and nobody’s sea, respectively. We build on the work of other scholars who have pointed to the activation of the Mediterranean as ‘empty’ in response to migration flows, erasing the historical connections of colonialism, empire, trade, and exchange in the Mediterranean as well as the contemporary legal geographies that govern the space. Here, we go further to develop the idea of a neo-colonial sea, which is alternately imagined as empty and ‘European’. We explore how NGOs disrupt these depictions, as well as the disappearing figures of the migrant and refugee amidst the contestations between NGOs and states. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Sage | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Solidarity -- Mediterranean Region | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mediterranean Region -- Emigration and immigration | en_GB |
dc.subject | Non-governmental organizations -- Mediterranean Region | en_GB |
dc.subject | Search and rescue aircraft -- Mediterranean Region | en_GB |
dc.title | Criminalizing solidarity : search and rescue in a neo-colonial sea | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/2399654420979314 | - |
dc.publication.title | Environment and Planning C : Politics and Space | en_GB |
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