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Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion

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Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion

Federica Mazzara, "Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion "
English | ISBN: 3034318847 | 2019 | 260 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Over the past two decades, national and supranational institutions and the mass media have played a central role in presenting the migrant struggle in a sensational way, spreading an unjustified moral panic and relegating migrants themselves to spaces of invisibility.
Building on recent theoretical debates in migration studies around the so-called «autonomy of migration» - which sees people on the move as individuals with self-determination and agency - this book reframes migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around the island of Lampedusa.
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