The Atlantic Mediterranean route: the necrocorridor between Africa and the Canary Islands
29 January 2026. From 18:30 | Conference | English | IEMed
This Aula Mediterrània lecture focuses on the African Atlantic route to the Canary Islands as one of the most dangerous migration corridors, analyzing it as a necrocorridor. It seeks to explain the conditions that turn certain migration routes into particularly deadly ones and how these routes are politically constructed. Drawing on the concepts of necropolitics, Judith Butler’s theory of grievability and global justice debates, the lecture argues that migrant deaths are banalised by political structures, the media and public opinion. Combining theoretical analysis, methodological discussion and empirical data, it shows that necrocorridors are not accidental but the result of structural political decisions that prevent mourning and remembrance.
A lecture by Mohammed Ouhemmou, assistant professor at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir (Morocco). Mohammed Ouhemmou is an assistant professor at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco. His fields of interest include public policy analysis, migration, and internationalization policies. His research focuses on the relationship between foreign policy and the politics of mobility, with particular attention to educational mobility. In his doctoral research, he examined the link between scholarships granted to sub-Saharan African students in Morocco and the country’s efforts to expand its influence, strengthen soft power, and build cooperative relations with African states. His work contributes to broader debates on international mobility, migration governance, and Morocco’s engagement with sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharian Student Mobility towards Morocco: politics, motivations and implications for internationalization (in Internationalization of Higher Education and Digital Transformation, 2025) and “Tense Neighbors, Algeria and Morocco Have Divergent Migration Histories” (2023) are his latest publications.
The session is moderated by Luisa Faustini, Senior Researcher, GRITIM-UPF.
A session within the framework of the Aula Mediterrània lecture series. Co-organised with the Master’s Degree in Governance – Migration Studies Track, GRITIM-UPF.
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