Policies, Practices, and Representations Regarding Sub-Saharan Migrants in Libya

From the Partnership with Italy to the Post-Qadhafi Era

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23745623
AutoresAntonio M Morone (0000-0003-2072-9301, University of Pavia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Páginas129-155
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaEurAfrican Borders and Migration Management (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-349-94972-4_6
OpenAlexW2537563576
ISBN9781349949724
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas10

By representing Libya as a country of transit more than as a country of destination, Muammar Qadhafi’s regime emphasized Libya’s key role in controlling global South–North migration. His main purpose was to obtain the lifting of international sanctions and then the Libyan readmission into the international community. On the contrary, data shows that Libya was mostly a country of destination. In spite of the framework change produced by the 2011 uprising and the following civil war, policies and practices related to the sub-Saharan migrants in Libya remained in close continuity with the past. The peak of the civil war in 2011 and then from mid-2014 up to now (November 2015) coincided with two large migratory crises in which thousands of refugees left the country. However, the new Libyan authorities and the Italian governments displayed a mutual interest in restoring the externalization and securitization policies that control the migrants. Migrants are still travelling to Libya for a wide range of reasons and mainly to seek a job. In broader terms, the case of migration in post-Qadhafi Libya thus reproduced the EurAfrican border regime, rather than putting it under discussion. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · General partnership · Geography · Irregular migration · Political science · Refugee · Sanctions · Spanish Civil War · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration