Aquapelagic necropolitics: governing migrants through more-than-human technologies on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands.
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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 322 - 343 |
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