| Sumario: | This article seeks to understand the functioning of necropolitics along the Atlantic migration route to the EU via the Canary Islands. It interrogates the power to make-let-die (with impunity) along this maritime corridor. Where is this power located? What constitutes its agency? How does it operate? Rather than adopting the framework of oceanic or liquid necropolitics, which emphasises water as a medium instrumentalized by EU border regimes, this article argues that necropolitics works through the relational convergence of more-than-human forces within a volumetric space (e.g. waves, currents, winds, weather patterns, sea temperature and depth, technologies, laws policies and discourses). Theoretically, the article offers a posthuman reading of necropolitics through the development of the concept of the 'aquapelago'. Using a specific shipwreck case study, it demonstrates how socio-geo-physical techniques of power underpin the dual mechanism of migration government along the Atlantic route; namely, practices of search (in/visibility) and rescue (or 'disappearance').
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