In this conversation with Luna Vives, we discuss her new book The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe (University of California Press, 2025). The book examines how humanitarian rescue, border control, and racial politics intersect in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and what these patterns reveal about the moral and legal limits of current border regimes. The conversation is grounded, detailed, and focused on how everyday decisions at sea shape who lives and who is lost.
We Don't Rescue Migrants—We Rescue Shipwreck…
In this conversation with Luna Vives, we discuss her new book The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe (University of California Press, 2025). The book examines how humanitarian rescue, border control, and racial politics intersect in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and what these patterns reveal about the moral and legal limits of current border regimes. The conversation is grounded, detailed, and focused on how everyday decisions at sea shape who lives and who is lost.