Authors: Jacopo Anderlini
Published in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2024)
DOI: 10.1177/23996544241259576
This article examines the intersection of humanitarian discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border, focusing on anti-trafficking narratives and their implementation. The analysis reveals how humanitarian concerns become entangled with border control mechanisms, creating new forms of governance that simultaneously protect and exclude.
This article provides a critical analysis of how anti-trafficking discourses operate at the southern Italian border, revealing the complex entanglement between humanitarian protection and security practices in contemporary migration governance.