Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Death in the Mediterranean...

It was probably the biggest tragedy in the history of Mediterranean migrations. According to the testimonies of some of the 28 survivors, between 700 and 900 people, mainly from Sub-Saharan Africa, were on the boat that sank in the Strait of Sicily on April 19.

We have gotten used to it, and this indeed is one of the most terrifying aspects of this story. Yes, we – white Europeans of different nationalities who hold passe-partout (masterkey) passports – have gotten used to thousands of non-white bodies swamped in the Mediterranean waters, like we got used to many other forms of extermination perpetrated along racial lines in the past. How did it come about?

European policies in the Mediterranean have been constantly oscillating between humanitarianism and policing. Our discussions about migrations always reproduce a sort of state of self-denial.

Questions are framed as if the processes that transformed the Mediterranean in the biggest marine cemetery of the world were in some way disconnected from our Schengen legal-territorial regime. Full story...

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