Dear friends and colleagues,
We would like to invite you to our next STS-MIGTEC CIRCLE session on
Thursday,
28 October, 15:00-17:00 CET.
We are extremely happy to host Itamar Mann (University of Haifa). Below
you can find further information about the event and registration.
Floating sanctuaries: the ethics of search and rescue at sea
Abstract: Search-and-Rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean have been
increasingly criminalized. This criminalization has chilled conversation
about the real ethical dilemmas that the practice involves. What, if any,
can be the adverse by-products of rescuing life at sea? In this article, we
concentrate the dilemmas involved in SAR as seen from the perspective of
rescuers. Our aim is twofold. The first is to map the dilemmas from a
phenomenological perspective, as they are experienced by rescuers at sea.
The paper sheds light on the complexity and nuance of the ethical landscape
of maritime rescue, revealing an intricate web of interactions acknowledged
by rescuers as posing ethical challenges. The second aim is to offer a
conceptual framework for what it is that SAR NGOs are, in fact, doing. We
contextualize their actions within the larger terrain of ‘border
externalization’, in which states have moved enforcement activities to
extraterritorial zones, where human rights law ostensibly does not apply.
We thus argue that the set of norms underlying practices developed by SAR
NGOs amounts to a strategy of counter-externalization. The idea here is
that a window of opportunity can be created at sea, where human rights or
international law protections more broadly apply, but enforcement powers of
states are suspended. By utilizing these legal grey zones to the benefit of
migrants, rescuers effectively turn extraterritorial zones from spaces of
lawlessness into spaces of resistance. The rescue ship thus becomes a
‘floating sanctuary’.
Registration
Interested participants can write an email to stsmigtec.circle@gmail.com
. The participants will then be provided with
the link for the zoom-meeting and the draft paper the presenters share for
discussion. The number of participants is limited to 15 participants to
maintain the conditions for a fruitful discussion.
About STS-MIGTEC Circle:
The STS-MIGTEC Circle is a small format which takes place once a month and
which serves to reflect jointly on work-in-progress contributions related
to the themes of interest to STS MIGTEC . The idea
is to create a safe space for probing and experimenting with ideas,
arguments, attempts of analysis, sense-making of empirical material. It’s
the right space for you if you already invested substantial energy and
dedication into that work, but you still feel the piece to be raw and
fragile. We invite individual scholars – of all career stages – to take
other interested scholars on board to jointly reflect and discuss with care
and constructive feedback.
Looking forward to a constructive discussion!
Best wishes,
Jasper & Sylvana on behalf of the STS-MIGTEC committee
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