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This book examines clandestine migrant journeys across the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe. It combines ethnographic focus with macro-level analyses of EU and national migration policies and practices. It draws on the case study of Malta, and pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.
List of contents
- 1: Notes from the Mediterranean: Shipwrecks, Politics, and Death
- 2: Constructing Crises to Manage: Migration Governance and the Power to Exclude
- 3: Limits of Migration Management: Clandestine Journeys to Europe
- 4: At Europe's Edge: Arrival on the Maltese Islands
- 5: Lilliputian Power? Malta's 'Crisis'
- 6: The Future of Europe
- Appendix: Reflections on Methods and Ethics
About the author
Ċetta Mainwaring is an author and activist. She is currently a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. She holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford and an MA in Sociology from City University, London. Dr Mainwaring's research examines migration, borders, and resistance. She is interested in how people move, seek asylum, and resist bordering practices. Her research has analysed how EU member states seek to control migration in the Mediterranean region and how these policies shape migrant experiences. She previously co-led a collaborative, cross-regional project, 'Clandestine Migration Journeys', which examined the everyday experiences of migrants and the ways they challenge and overcome restrictive policies and barriers they face along the route. She currently holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship examining immigration detention, the way this failed policy travels internationally, and resistance to it in the UK, US, and Australia.
Summary
This book examines clandestine migrant journeys across the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe. It combines ethnographic focus with macro-level analyses of EU and national migration policies and practices. It draws on the case study of Malta, and pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.
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At Europe's Edge offers an authoritative and accessible account of the social, political, and cultural construction of Europe's so-called 'migration' crisis. Mainwaring draws on a decade of ethnographic research to historicize the dominant 'crisis' narrative, to foreground the agency of actors presumed to be marginal in shaping Mediterranean space, and to emphasize the everyday production and contestation of Europe's borders. The result is a major new intervention that deserves urgent attention — this book will shape interdisciplinary debates about one of the most pressing public policy issues in the twenty-first century.
