Border Deaths

Paolo Cuttitta is a Marie Curie fellow at the Centre de Recherche sur l'Action Locale, Université Paris 13. He previously worked at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Palermo University. His current research looks at humanitarian border management and the changing roles of state and non-state actors in the EU/North African border regime. Tamara Last was awarded her doctorate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for her empirical research on EU border deaths. She designed and managed the Deaths at the Borders Database. Her postdoctoral research at ACMS (University of the Witwatersrand) focuses on decolonisation of migration governance in Africa.

• Acknowledgements, Preface. The Increasing Focus on Border Deaths, Introduction: A State-of-the-Art Exposition on Border Deaths, 1. Various Actors: The Border Death Regime, 2. Mortality and Border Deaths Data: Key Challenges and Ways Forward, 3. Representations of Border Deaths and the Making and Unmaking of Borders, 4. Engaging Bodies as Matters of Care: Accounting for Death During Migration, 5. Mourning Missing Migrants: Ambiguous Loss and the Grief of Strangers, 6. Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail, 7. Understanding the Causes of Border Deaths: A Mapping Exercise, 8. Moving Forward: Between Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Migration Politics, Afterword: From the Iron Curtain to Lampedusa, Index