Lampedusa in Focus
Migrants Caught between the Libyan Desert and the Deep Sea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3947004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rutvica Andrijasevic (0000-0001-6979-4812, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-125 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400274 |
| OpenAlex | W2081217516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 1 |
It is the last day of August and at the airport of Lampedusa, a small Italian island situated south of Sicily, yet another deportation of ‘undocumented’ migrants is taking place. The incident appears as wrapped in the mantel of ordinariness that exacerbates even more the violence of the event. Two planes parked approximately 20m away from each other are waiting for passengers. A group of tourists pours out of the airport building and strolls towards the airplane of AirOne, an Italian tourist carrier. The adjacent plane of AirAdriatic, a private Croatian air company, is boarded by a group of passengers walking in a fixed formation behind each other. Four police officers (one officer in the back, one in front and two on the side of the row) wearing civilian clothes and large black protection gloves lead the group of 10 migrants from the detention camp to the airplane. The distance between the AirAdriatic plane and the detention camp is rather short. In fact, the plane is parked only 15m or so away from the barbed wire that separates the runway from the camp. Migrants boarding the plane are dressed the same: they wear dark blue sports trousers with a matching jacket and carry a white plastic shopping bag. Seven groups of 10 men are lead to the plane. Behind the barbed wire there are several hundreds of migrants seated in small groups on the soil. When the plane takes off most of them are on their feet, waving
Desert (philosophy) · Ethnology · Feminism · Focus (optics) · Geography · Human sexuality · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Managing migration, scaling sovereignty on islands
Transit migration
Policies, Practices, and Representations Regarding Sub-Saharan Migrants in Libya
Arendt’s Children
Lampedusa, ou la nuit de l’Europe
The Humanitarian Theater in the Mediterranean and the Threat of Violence in the Balkans
Conceptualizing detention
The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women
The Myth of Invasion
Border politics, right to life and acts of dissensus
Islands and Undesirables
Immigration, Rituals and Transitoriness in the Mediterranean Island of Malta
Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration-development nexus
Researching migration and enforcement in obscured places
Across the Borders of Lesvos
Rented spaces
The presence of abandonment
Rupture, reproduction, and the state
Thinking Lampedusa
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |