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Mediterranean migrations at the world's deadliest border
272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Introduction: on the threshold of liberty -- Genealogies of care and confinement -- Genealogies of rescue and pushbacks -- Sovereignty as salvation: moral states -- Sovereignty as preemption: undocumented states -- Spring uprisings, fall drownings -- Public aesthetics amid seas.
Based on the author's 2006 University of California, Irvine Ph.D. thesis titled: Death and the moral state: making borders and sovereignty at the southern edges of Europe.
Includes bibliographical references and index.