Event Host: Mershon Center for International Security Studies
The Mediterranean Sea continues to constitute a most lethal passage for migrants, including refugees and would-be asylum seekers. Italian and European Union authorities seek to “close” this maritime “route” and contain migrants far away from Europe’s southern shores. By focusing on ongoing developments and conflicts in this Mediterranean arena, the talk will also discuss challenging tensions between peace and war, security and human rights, democracy and authoritarianism. In charting some of the ways forward, Albahari draws on existing practices and engagements, including artistic and more broadly civic ones, to trace the profile of an emerging “migrant democracy”.
Maurizio Albahari is associate professor of anthropology and a concurrent associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Albahari is a social-cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., U.C. Irvine) who explores the tension between human existence and structures of power. He is the author of Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press as part of its Series in Human Rights (2015).
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