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Blue borders, dark bodies: The Mediterranean as a site of racist murder

Originally published: The Wire on August 10, 2022 by Shreya Parikh (more by The Wire) | (Posted Aug 12, 2022)

Borders barely exist for these white bodies; rather, borders are lived as a hot summer inconvenience of queues at airport security. But for the dark bodies carrying their Global South passports, the Mediterranean is a humiliating border.