Europe and the Sea of Stories: Operation Sophia in Four Absences

Research output: PhD ThesisPhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal

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Abstract

Operation Sophia (code name: EUNAVFOR MED) is an EU military operation, which operated on the Mediterranean high seas (2015-2020) in response to migrants departing from Libya for Europe. Curiously, it operated without a use of force mandate, without a common-held policy narrative, without a Libyan partner government, and without much attention for its physical spaces of implementation in Brussels. This thesis is an invitation to consider the importance of these absences. For operation Sophia does not operate regardless of these absences: it operates as it does because of them.
Original languageEnglish
QualificationPhD
Awarding Institution
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Werner, WG, Supervisor
  • Aalberts, T.E. (Tanja), Supervisor
Award date4 Mar 2021
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Absence
  • EU
  • EUNAVFOR MED operation Sophia
  • Governance
  • International Law
  • Migration
  • Socio-Legal Studies

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