Humanitarian border: Reprise. Anti-human trafficking discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border

Jacopo Anderlini
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The article analyses the friction between anti-human trafficking discourse and border practices in the context of EU migration management: the narrative of protecting migrants from human traffickers, evoked by law enforcement actors, merges with a discourse criminalizing migration, discerning between the migrant as a passive victim – the asylum seeker –the “economic migrant” and the ruthless smuggler. Practices and procedures at the border aim primarily at classifying migrants within these categories, in fact identifying potentially dangerous subjects for the country of arrival. The case study is the Southern European border in Sicily, and the operations enacted by law enforcement actors and EU agencies within the hotspot facilities. Moving from the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted on this context since 2016, witnessing disembarkations and border procedures and getting access to the hotspot structures of Lampedusa and Pozzallo in 2021, the article analyses the transformation of the border apparatus and of contemporary governance of mobility. What delineates is a revival of the humanitarian border, where anti-human trafficking discourses are evoked to legitimize exclusionary border procedures and practices.
人道主义边界:再现。意大利南部边境打击人口贩运的论述与安全实践
文章分析了欧盟移民管理背景下打击人口贩运的论述与边境实践之间的摩擦:执法人员提出的保护移民免受人口贩运者侵害的论述与将移民定罪的论述相融合,将移民区分为被动受害者--寻求庇护者--"经济移民 "和冷酷无情的偷渡者。边境上的做法和程序主要是为了将移民归入这些类别,实际上是为抵达国确定潜在的危险对象。案例研究的对象是位于西西里岛的南欧边境,以及执法人员和欧盟机构在热点设施内开展的行动。文章从我自 2016 年以来在这一背景下开展的人种学实地调查出发,目睹了登岸和边境程序,并在 2021 年进入了兰佩杜萨和波扎洛的热点机构,分析了边境机构和当代流动性治理的转变。文章分析了边境机构和当代流动性治理的转变,指出了人道主义边境的复兴,在这种情况下,反人口贩运的论调被唤起,使排斥性的边境程序和做法合法化。
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