| ID | 188525 |
| Title Proper | Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cold-Ravnkilde, Signe ; Savio Vammen, Ida Marie ; Lucht, Hans |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This special issue of Geopolitics has been put together at the time of the mass demonstrations sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black US citizens, as well as of acts of symbolic toppling of statues that glorify Europe’s dark colonial past. A slogan in bold bright blue letters on a protest banner at a demonstration in Italy in 2020 stood out and found its way into the media. ‘From the Mediterranean to Minneapolis, under water or under a knee, I can’t breathe’ (Sunderland Citation2020). It links racialised structural violence in the US with the European anti-migration context by making a clear reference to the European Union and its member states’ silent acceptance of the mass drownings of men, women and children attempting to cross the Mediterranean.1 In a context where the EU has abandoned maritime rescue missions while funding the Libyan coastguard’s pull-back operations, and where NGO humanitarian search and rescue operations are increasingly criminalised (Lloyd-Damnjanovic Citation2020) this is particularly topical. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 27, No.5; Oct-Dec 2022: p.1317-1330 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 27 No 5 |
| Key Words | EU-African Borderlands |