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Border politics, right to life and acts of : voices from the Lampedusa borderland

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The debate on migration-related border controls has greatly expanded during the past decade. Special attention has been given to processes of contestation and of rights-claims enacted by migrants, drawing greatly on Isin’s work on acts of citizenship and Rancière’s articulation of the ‘uncounted’ and the political. Within this broad debate little attention has been devoted to the acts of common people in contesting current border management and especially in refusing the policing and the bordering of their own territory. By focusing on the Lampedusa borderland, this paper will explore and interrogate the verbal protests made by the people of Lampedusa in response to the drowning of some 366 African migrants on 3 October 2013. The protests were mostly against current border patrolling and its politics of (non-)life, which prioritise border protection against (migrants’) life protection. The call to protecting all human life, equally worthy of being protected, transformed these protests into political acts. Using and extending the work of Rancière, I explore the extent to which the people of Lampedusa have highlighted a ‘wrong’ and enacted ‘dissensus’ by contesting the (natural) securitised order of EU border management.

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  • Raffaela Puggioni, 2015. "Border politics, right to life and acts of : voices from the Lampedusa borderland," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(6), pages 1145-1159, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:36:y:2015:i:6:p:1145-1159
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1047199
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