Description
Europe’s desire to govern (unauthorised) migration has prompted new forms of carcerality - or “im/mobilising carceral regimes” (Turner & Peters 2017: 9) - intended to capture, contain, and deter migrant mobilities. In the context of the Mediterranean borderzone, infrastructures, technologies, and spaces of confinement that aim to discipline migratory mobilities have multiplied. In consequence, tens of thousands of people have been captured at sea and returned to Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, and elsewhere. This paper assesses the production of a ‘carceral seascape’ but also its contestation. In particular, it focuses on activist efforts to use high-speed rescue assets to intervene in, and counteract, EUrope’s ‘weaponising’ of time in maritime migration governance.
