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New book, presented here by author, @FraSoliman
Accounting for the myriad harms generated by the border regime at #Lampedusa and by constantly governing through crises.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003348177/social-harm-border-francesca-soliman
#harm #research #socialharm
@SCCJR
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Teaching criminology: The Human Element
Another @SCCJR event, this time considering the people behind the teaching and research that constitutes academic criminology, with Milena Tripković, @FraSoliman, @fergusmcneill and Miha Hafner.
Thurs 29 June, 1300hrs BST, online
If anyone needed another reason to dismay over the impact of EU border policies, here's a paper on the impact of trawler wrecks on the environment from my Napier colleague @FraSoliman ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-023-09692-x#citeas
#Criminology #GreenCriminology #Environment #Polution #Borders #Migration #EU #Law #Policy
In this paper I examine authorities’ management of migrant boats on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, as an example of environmental border harm. A danger to trawlers, sunken wrecks are also hazardous to the environment, with pollutants such as oil and fuel seeping into the sea. Migrant boats that reach the island, whether independently or towed by rescuers, are left to accumulate in the harbour and eventually break up, scattering debris in bad weather. When boats are uplifted onto land, they are amassed in large dumps, leaking pollutants into the soil. Periodically, the resulting environmental crises trigger emergency tendering processes for the disposal of the boats, which allow for the environmental protections normally required in public bidding to be suspended for the sake of expediency. The disposal of migrant boats thus relies on a pattern of manufactured environmental emergencies, consistent with the intrinsically crisis-based management of the border itself.
In this paper I examine authorities’ management of migrant boats on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, as an example of environmental border harm. A danger to trawlers, sunken wrecks are also hazardous to the environment, with pollutants such as oil and fuel seeping into the sea. Migrant boats that reach the island, whether independently or towed by rescuers, are left to accumulate in the harbour and eventually break up, scattering debris in bad weather. When boats are uplifted onto land, they are amassed in large dumps, leaking pollutants into the soil. Periodically, the resulting environmental crises trigger emergency tendering processes for the disposal of the boats, which allow for the environmental protections normally required in public bidding to be suspended for the sake of expediency. The disposal of migrant boats thus relies on a pattern of manufactured environmental emergencies, consistent with the intrinsically crisis-based management of the border itself.
So the government has emptied the Manston immigration processing centre
This is, on the face of it, a good thing
However, this means that the government is spending even more millions every day on hotel rooms to house some of the most vulnerable people in the world
It is not because the processing of asylum applications has suddenly improved
And it also means the failure of the British immigration system can be slightly hidden from public view
It remains a national embarrassment
#Introduction time!
I'm a lecturer in #Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.
I teach Undergrad and Postgrad criminology, policing and sociology students about #cybercrime, #cybersecurity and the #sociology of policing. I've also got 3 amazing #PhD students!
I'm interested in hacking careers, the criminalisation of hackers + hacking, and critically analysing how police respond to emerging techno-social crime trends.
More about me + what I write on my linked bio 👆
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