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Expanded Borders: Policies and Practices of Preventive Refoulement in Italy

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On 7 May 2009, the Italian coastguard intercepted 227 migrants on board three different ships crossing the Strait of Sicily and sent them back to Libya while they were still in international waters, and more precisely in the Maltese Search and Rescue Area (SAR).

Although states attempt to choreograph national borders, often in response to global pressures, these state policies have little meaning until they are ‘performed’ by state agents or by border crossers… Border agents and state bureaucrats play a critical role in determining where, how, and on whose body a border will be performed.

(Wonders, 2006, p. 66)

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  1. Chiara Marchetti
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  1. University of Osnabrück, Germany

    Martin Geiger

  2. University of Paris VII and University of Poitiers, France

    Antoine Pécoud

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Marchetti, C. (2010). Expanded Borders: Policies and Practices of Preventive Refoulement in Italy. In: Geiger, M., Pécoud, A. (eds) The Politics of International Migration Management. Migration, Minorities and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294882_8

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