Policy analysis demonstrates systematic obstruction of maritime rescue operations under Italian border governance, highlighting the subordination of care to security logic.
Key Points
To examine how recent Italian border policies redefine the humanitarian border by subordinating search and rescue operations to state security rationalities.
Conceptual and policy analysis informed by Border Studies and Critical Security Studies frameworks.
Qualitative assessment of Italian maritime border governance, non-governmental search and rescue operations, and coast guard protocols.
Identifies systematic administrative and operational obstruction of search and rescue activities conducted by both non-governmental organizations and state coast guards.
Introduces the theoretical concept of 'b/ordering humanitarian action' to capture the hierarchical subordination of life-saving protection to border security logic.