After the boats: Refugee reception and the production of irregularity in Italy’s migration crisis
“We must stop this carnage.” These five simple, powerful words were used by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to describe the migration situation in the Mediterranean Sea in April 2015.[1] His impassioned call to arms came in the same month that over a thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea. Repeated summits followed over the subsequent months, bringing Europe’s leaders together to prevent further loss of life at sea, aiming to find ways to stop migrants from making the journey and closing off what Renzi called “massive illegal migration flows.”[2] Today, in the same stretch of water to the south of Italy where so many lives were lost, migrant boats are intercepted by larger ships as part of the European Union’s joint operations Triton and Sophia. Barely anyone lands directly on Italian shores anymore; nearly all migrants are intercepted at sea. The migration flow hasn’t stopped, but the arrival on shore is now somewhat more orderly.
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