Sacrificed lives. Normalised institutional violence towards migration in the Euro- Mediterranean area

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Gennaro Avallone
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/135
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 87-102 File size 157 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2024-135005
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Since the 1990s, migration in the Euro-Mediterranean area has been characterised by avoidable deaths, suffering, and violence. This article aims to address the reasons behind this human, political, and ethical crisis with two objectives. The first is to highlight how death and violence have become integral to migration towards Europe's borders. The second is to acknowledge that such outcomes could be prevented through alternative immigration policies, such as granting visas and providing accessible entry procedures.

Keywords: violence; European policies; necropolitics; pedagogy of cruelty; detention centres; asylum

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Gennaro Avallone, Vite sacrificate. La violenza istituzionale normalizzata verso le migrazioni nell’area euromediterranea in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 135/2024, pp 87-102, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2024-135005