At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean

At Europe’s Edge examines clandestine migrant journeys across the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe. It combines an ethnographic focus on migrants and practitioners with macro-level analyses of EU and national migration policies and practices. It draws on the case study of Malta, a small EU state at the crosshairs of migration flows and controls on Europe’s southern periphery. The book demonstrates Malta’s outsized role in EU migration politics and how the emphasis on controlling migration in the Mediterranean is vital to the contested construction of a unified ‘Europe’. By centring on the margins, the book pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.