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Chapter 1. Introduction: Conceptualising the Mediterranean Global South to understand Border Crises and Human Mobility across Borders -- Part 1: Critical Security Approaches to the Mediterranean Global South -- Chapter 2. Mediterranean Security and the World Policies. The Overlooked Link -- Chapter 3. Security in Crisis? The Cultural Production of the 2015 'Mediterranean Immigrant Crisis' -- Part 2: Actors and Practices in Border Crises and Migration -- Chapter 4. Power and Security in the Mediterranean Global South and at the Eastern EU borders: Russia in Syria and Ukraine -- Chapter 5. The EU and the Politics of Migration in the Mediterranean: from Crisis Management to Management in Crisis -- Chapter 6. The Changing Policies of International Institutions: Human Mobility in the Mediterranean -- Part 3: Contemporary Insecurities Across the Borders -- Chapter 7. Climate Change Migration enters the Agenda of the Wider Mediterranean: the Long Way towards Global Governance -- Chapter 8. Syrians in Turkey: a Case for Human Security and State Capacity -- Chapter 9. Migration of Unaccompanied Children: Is the EU up to the Challenge? A Legal Perspective of the Southern Mediterranean -- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Looking ahead, setting the future agenda to address border insecurities and human mobility in the Mediterranean Global South.

In this volume, concepts of democracy, civil society, human rights and dialogue among civilizations in the Mediterranean region are addressed in the context of the new Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

AbstractThis article provides a re-conceptualization of human security by exploring humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery. It analyzes human security at the Mediterranean borders by focusing on humanitarian, migrant-centered discourse concerned with defending the world's most vulnerable populations (Barnett in Annual Review of Political Science 16(1): 379-398, 2013). Empirical research has detected humanitarian discourse defending migrants' rights, based on claims for the right to be free from inhuman treatment (Aradau in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 33(2): 251–77, 2004), as a counter-argument to the defense and closure of the borders. A humanitarian discourse focused on the alleviation of migrants' physical and mental suffering erupted at the EU periphery when the Italian government denied a port of safety to the SeaWatch3 vessel in January 2019. This case study provides an example of center-periphery conflictual dynamics. The Italian government, defending the EU/Italian borders by closing the Italian ports, was challenged by actors mobilizing pressure, shaming the state into compliance and requesting pro-migrant legislation.

This article provides a re-conceptualization of human security by exploring humanitarian discourse in the EU periphery. It analyzes human security at the Mediterranean borders by focusing on humanitarian, migrant-centered discourse concerned with defending the world's most vulnerable populations (Barnett in Annual Review of Political Science 16(1): 379-398, 2013). Empirical research has detected humanitarian discourse defending migrants' rights, based on claims for the right to be free from inhuman treatment (Aradau in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 33(2): 251–77, 2004), as a counter-argument to the defense and closure of the borders. A humanitarian discourse focused on the alleviation of migrants' physical and mental suffering erupted at the EU periphery when the Italian government denied a port of safety to the SeaWatch3 vessel in January 2019. This case study provides an example of center-periphery conflictual dynamics. The Italian government, defending the EU/Italian borders by closing the Italian ports, was challenged by actors mobilizing pressure, shaming the state into compliance and requesting pro-migrant legislation.