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The Mediterranean Crossings: Border-crossing, Representations, and Estrangement on the Sea Shores. FACULTY OF LANGUAGES, ARTS, AND HUMANITIES CAMPUS UNIVERSITAIRE AIT MELLOUL (MOROCCO) The concept of the Mediterranean can be viewed as a construct of historical transitions of cultures bordering both shores of the sea. The Mediterranean is also described as a space of shared cultural encounters and global mobilities, and as such the space of the Mediterranean is regarded as ‘multiple’, where borders are conceived as ‘transitory’ sites and ‘zones of transit’ (Chambers 2008, 2-4). The interaction between the visible and the invisible in the Mediterranean crossings also points out to the different representations that border crossings reveal where hundreds of migrants died or went missing in their attempts to cross the sea towards Europe. Borders and migration nexus helps in creating different imaginaries that have political, economic, social, and cultural implications for Mediterranean space and Europe at large (Rosello and Wolfe 2017, 4). While some illegal migrants succeed in reaching the European shore, they, however, are forced to remain invisible and therefore suffer from this state of invisibility. On the other shore of the Mediterranean, the migrants remain publicly visible while at the same time deferred from joining the public discourse on human rights (among other things). If in Europe the crossing of the Mediterranean can result in framing the migrants within the political discourse of terrorism, in Africa the representation of the migrant is yet to be viewed as disquieting, which forces them towards their death either on the electric fences or at sea. As such, the migrant seemingly, in crossing the Mediterranean, enjoys different forms of crossing seems to hide the atrocities of wars and crises that the migrants’ figures fail to uphold in an era characterized by free movement and borderless zones. Where globalization succeeds to link certain nation states together without borders (case of Europe),