Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…During the Italian colonisation, Libya was subsumed in Italy’s Mediterranean projections, whether as a necessary “fourth shore” to Italy’s expansion in its “own” Lebensraum, or as a bridge welding Europe and Africa within a unitary geopolitical entity called Eurafrica. …”
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Fin de régime et migrations en Libye.Les enseignements juridiques d’un pays en feu by Delphine Perrin

“…In relation to Europe, Libya skillfully turned migrants on its soil into a spectrum in transit against which the – already isolated – Italian outpost could not resist, while the reform of its immigration law plunged most of them into irregularity. …”
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