Crimes of Peace - Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border

Maurizio Albahari teaches anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.

List of contents

PART I. JOURNEYS

Introduction: On the Threshold of Liberty

Chapter 1. Genealogies of Care and Confinement

Chapter 2. Genealogies of Rescue and Pushbacks

PART II. MIDDLE WORLDS

Chapter 3. Sovereignty as Salvation: Moral States

Chapter 4. Sovereignty as Preemption: Undocumented States

PART III. BORDERS ADRIFT

Chapter 5. Spring Uprisings, Fall Drownings

Chapter 6. Public Aesthetics Amid Seas

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Maurizio Albahari

Summary

In Crimes of Peace, Maurizio Albahari investigates why the Mediterranean Sea is the world's deadliest border, and what alternatives might improve this state of affairs. Albahari transforms abstract statistics into names and narratives that place the responsibility for the Mediterranean migration crisis in the heart of liberal democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Maurizio Albahari
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780812223828
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2382-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education