Overview: Offers a book-length analysis of the symbolically-charged space of Lampedusa.Provides a highly topical reflection on migration, power and international relations.Takes an interdisciplinary and comprehThis book analyses the European border at Lampedusa as a metaphor for visible and invisible powers that impinge on relations between Europe and Africa/Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (political, social, cultural, economic and artistic), it explores the island as a place where social relations based around race, gender, sex, age and class are being reproduced and/or subverted.
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