{"product_id":"the-borders-of-responsibility-migration-control-in-the-mediterranean-sea-hardback-9781478033783","title":"The Borders of Responsibility; Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea (Hardback) 9781478033783","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Borders of Responsibility\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMigration Control in the Mediterranean Sea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKiri Olivia Santer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478033783\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 May 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e274 pages, 4 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.535 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A sophisticated and nuanced understanding of how migrants’ movements across the Central Mediterranean are conditioned and contained through the EU’s strategy of border externalization.”—\u003cb\u003eGregory Feldman, author of\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Subject of Sovereignty: Relationality and the Pivot past Liberalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating and original discussion of pushbacks, pullbacks, coastguards, maritime rescue zones, legal gaps, political games, and humanitarian logistics. Santer’s experience on NGO rescue boats adds powerful insight, nuance, and affect to the account.”—\u003cb\u003eWilliam Walters, editor of\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eViapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhile migrants face many dangers in attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea—from drowning to dying of dehydration—they also confront an elaborate legal system that is designed to return them to their countries of origin. In \u003ci\u003eThe Borders of Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e, Kiri Olivia Santer outlines the architecture of these legal systems and how they help Europe evade legal responsibility for rescuing migrants. Focusing on legal agreements between Italy and Libya that have resulted in the systematic interception of migrants, Santer shows how Europe’s liberal identity is belied by legal agreements that let migrants die at sea or that send them back to dangerous, exploitative situations in post-Gaddafi Libya or their home countries. Law, she argues, is the tool that enables states to affect control beyond territory, whilst disappearing their responsibility for violence across border assemblages. Through ethnographic fieldwork with migrants, lawyers, policy makers, and humanitarian workers, Santer shows how the law is too often used as an instrument of violence against migrants, who fall outside of conventional structures of legal rights.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAbbreviations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tense Rescues and Double Standards  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Colonial Legacies and the Regulation of Mobility Between Libya and Europe  52\u003cbr\u003e 3. Coast Guards and the Legal Architecture of Interdiction  73\u003cbr\u003e 4. Offshore Containment Industries at the Margins of Europe  89\u003cbr\u003e 5. Assembling Delegated Control  117\u003cbr\u003e 6. Border Violence and the Fragmentation of Responsibility  147\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  176\u003cbr\u003e Notes  187\u003cbr\u003e References  215\u003cbr\u003e Index  245\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026995480,"sku":"9781478033783","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-borders-of-responsibility-migration-control-in-the-mediterranean-sea-hardback-9781478033783","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}