Pallister-Wilkins 1003 political action but also freedom to act within the market place based on processes of rationality and efficiency. It is this latter phenomenon I wish to focus on here. The ‘hotspots’ have come into existence within a ‘migration crisis’ that has been characterised not only by life seekers seeking life but also by the presence of large numbers of volunteers wanting to ‘help’ these ‘distant strangers’ upon their arrival in Europe. The autumn of 2015 saw large numbers of volunteers journey to Greece to assist life seekers. From wanting to ensure the safety of their journeys in small rubber dinghies across the Aegean, to providing dry clothes on the beaches, to offering food, and other basic needs at registration sites – later hotspots – compassion was mobilised and performed in many instances in the absence of what many volunteers considered an adequate response from the European Union, the Greek state and international humanitarian organisations. However, from the perspective of sovereignty such compassion needed to be made to work in ways that were effective to the management of the ‘migration crisis’ as a whole. Left unchecked compassion had the potential to exacerbate disorder. Over time – from the summer of 2015 through to 2016 – the provision of care within the hotspots and their attendant satellite sites, including search and rescue efforts, have been slowly consolidated and brought under ‘control’.8 So while the hotspots are an attempt to bring order to the management of mobility they and their related governing techniques are also an attempt to bring order to the compassion of volunteers and make it work effectively for liberal sovereignty rather than against it. This rationalisation of compassion takes place on many geographical scales. It both consolidates the hotspot approaches’ humanitarian geography and also expands such moral geographies beyond the specific hotspots and their satellite sites to include specific initiatives instituted by the European Union to regulate and make effective the compassion that has been mobilised by the ‘migration crisis’. The hotspot approach rationalises compassion by regulating care within the hotspots themselves and their satellite sites while volunteers are included, represented and present in management meetings with other ‘stakeholders’ such as Frontex, EASO and local government representatives. Within this framework, the provision of basic needs is regulated to avoid replication and waste and thus to enhance the efficacy of provision overall. In addition representatives of Frontex have held regular meetings with volunteer rescuers who have worked to create many of the hotspot satellite sites and form part of what has been termed a humanitarian borderscape (PallisterWilkins, 2018). These meetings work to bring such concerns for life performed by these volunteer rescuers under the regulation and control of liberal sovereignty. Meanwhile compassion is not only rationalised by state-actors or those representing the EU. Volunteer organisers and humanitarian organisations themselves have worked hard to channel the ‘moral force’ of volunteers in ever more effective ways. Preventing duplication, speeding up response times, developing elaborate logistics systems, communication systems and funding mechanisms and requiring volunteers to adhere to ethical and professional standards. These processes, like the larger processes of humanitarianism that they emulate and are a part of, calibrate and channel ‘moral force’ as well as limit need in terms of defining who is in need and what is needed to specific spaces and times, e.g. the hotspots (see Reid-Henry, 2014: 426). In thinking through the more expansive moral geographies underpinning the hotspots, the new EU Solidarity Corps is an illustrative example suggesting the EU aims to capture the desire to help exhibited by its citizenry and to ensure such desires are rendered effective as opposed to potentially destabilising. Similar in aim to state-based volunteering institutions such as the US Peace Corps or the German weltw€arts, the EU Solidarity Corps was launched on 7 December 2016 and: