‘Borderizing’ the Island. Setting and Narratives of the Lampedusa ‘Border Play’, Paolo Cuttitta

‘Borderizing’ the Island. Setting and Narratives of the Lampedusa ‘Border Play’, Paolo Cuttitta, ACME, 2014, 13(2), 196-219 Abstract The island of Lampedusa is known as an EU border hotspot. Its high degree of ‘borderness’, though, is less the result of its geographical location than the product of a ‘borderization’ process carried out through specific policies, practices and discourses. The introduction explains what Lampedusa’s ‘borderness’ consists in: irregular landings and the changed ..