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'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men': The moral and political scales of migration in the central Mediterranean


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Authors

Ben-Yehoyada, N 

Abstract

jats:pThis article offers recent dynamics of unauthorized migration and interception in the central Mediterranean as an example of historical anthropology of transnational region formation. It exemplifies how we can rescale classical themes in Mediterraneanist anthropology – hospitality, in this case – to illuminate transnational processes. I argue that anthropologists actually share with human rights advocates and European officials these ways of thinking about the scales of the moral and the political dimensions of migration, and I offer an alternative understanding of the scales of action, responsibility, and sovereignty as well as a clue about how regions come to life.</jats:p>

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Keywords

4301 Archaeology, 4401 Anthropology, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 44 Human Society

Journal Title

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Journal ISSN

1359-0987
1467-9655

Volume Title

22

Publisher

Wiley