The Borders of Responsibility

Kiri Olivia Santer is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institution of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern.

Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Tense Rescues and Double Standards 23 2. Colonial Legacies and the Regulation of Mobility Between Libya and Europe 52 3. Coast Guards and the Legal Architecture of Interdiction 73 4. Offshore Containment Industries at the Margins of Europe 89 5. Assembling Delegated Control 117 6. Border Violence and the Fragmentation of Responsibility 147 Conclusion 176 Notes 187 References 215 Index

"A sophisticated and nuanced understanding of how migrants' movements across the Central Mediterranean are conditioned and contained through the EU's strategy of border externalization."-Gregory Feldman, author of, The Subject of Sovereignty: Relationality and the Pivot past Liberalism "A fascinating and original discussion of pushbacks, pullbacks, coastguards, maritime rescue zones, legal gaps, political games, and humanitarian logistics. Santer's experience on NGO rescue boats adds powerful insight, nuance, and affect to the account."-William Walters, editor of, Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion