Graffin, N, Howard, M and Vincett, J Criminalisation and control: Mediterranean maritime search and rescue workers’ perceptions of uses of law. Refugee Survey Quarterly. ISSN 1020-4067 (Accepted)

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Abstract

This article, based on qualitative research of 22 search and rescue (SAR) activists who save migrant lives at sea, examines perceptions of these activists on measures used to criminalise and control them and their organisations. Recognising the law in this area as contested between the impressions of civic society humanitarian activists and state authorities, it analyses how SAR activists perceive how the law is used to disrupt their work. This article examines not only how the law is developed by government, but it will be argued, utilising the theory of critical legal pluralism, that state officials create law in their encounters with SAR activists and their vessels. This article is therefore significant in demonstrating how state officials can create law for nefarious purposes, which has relevance not only to immigration and maritime law, but to other areas of controversial or contested activity.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	immigration; asylum; search and rescue; criminalisation; human rights; critical legal pluralism; 1699 Other Studies in Human Society; 1801 Law; 2201 Applied Ethics; Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Liverpool Business School
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2025 08:59
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2025 08:59
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/rsq/hdae026
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25195

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