Event
Luna Vives (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) - Liquid graveyards: Migration management and the suspension of responsibility in the European Union
Friday, November 22, 2024 12:00to13:00
Burnside Hall
Room 426, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Abstract: Over the last decade, more than 30,000 people have drowned on their way to Europe. These deaths are a direct consequence of current EU border and migration policy. In the absence of safe and legal routes to flee violence and poverty and with land routes increasingly closed, people on the move have turned towards the sea to reach EU territory. Looking at statistical and geospatial data, this presentation looks at how EU member states鈥� have actively transformed their search and rescue (SAR) systems to avoid their responsibility to protect human life in zones of migration. We will also look at how the New Pact of Migration and Asylum could contribute to the hardening of rules surrounding maritime SAR.
Luna Vives
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Universit茅 de Montr茅al. My research focuses on how governments use borders to stop and manage spontaneous migration, and I am particularly interested in the tension between states鈥� priorities in the area of migration policy and the protection of migrants鈥� rights. I have published work on the evolution of contemporary European and North American borders in journals such as Political Geography, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Migration Studies, International Migration, and Citizenship Studies.
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