Thanatic Ethics [Webinar] : The Politics of Counting Migrant Deaths in Times of Crisis Revised

‘The politics of counting migrant deaths in times of crisis’ Speaker: Antoine Pecoud (Paris 13 University) Migrant deaths have become a major social and political issue, especially (but not only) in the euro-Mediterranean region and in the context of the refugee/migrant crisis. A key feature of the debate is the reliance, by media, activists and policymakers, on numbers of migrant deaths. But little is known about the production of such data. This paper explores who counts migrant deaths in Europe, for what reasons and in what manner. This statistical activity was initiated in the nineties by civil society organizations with the purpose of shedding light on the deadly consequences of ‘Fortress Europe’ and of challenging states’ control-oriented policies. In 2013, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) also started to count migrants’ deaths, but within a changing context and with different political objectives. IOM’s turn to counting border deaths was part of a broader shift towards the humanitarianisation of the border, in which the denunciation of migrants’ deaths, humanitarian and life-saving activities become integrated in border management and the control of borders. Rather than criticizing states, IOM aims at conciliating the control of human mobility with the prevention of deaths. This has stripped this activity of the dimension of political critique that had been central to the framing of the data produced by civil society actors. The Thanatic Ethics Webinar is convened by Bidisha Banerjee (CPCH, The Education University of Hong Kong), Judith Misrahi-Barak (EMMA, Montpellier 3) and Thomas Lacroix (MFO) *************** Organized by the Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities (CPCH) from CPCH is a research centre at The Education University of Hong Kong focusing on popular culture. Popular culture is a cross-disciplinary area that offers considerable potential for research that bridges language and linguistics, literature, culture and new media within the Faculty of Humanities. The Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities (CPCH) adopts a broad view of popular culture that covers both the culture of everyday life and its mediation through print (newspapers, magazines, literature), multimodal media (music, cinema,photography and advertising, visual and material culture), and new digital media of various kinds. From the perspective of text analysis, research on popular culture goes beyond established canons of traditional European literary works, to explore a wider range of non-traditional media and texts.

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