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Title: | The rights of migrants to the identification of their dead: an attempt at an identification strategy from Italy | Authors: | Cattaneo, Cristina De Angelis, Danilo Mazzarelli, Debora Porta, Davide Poppa, Pasquale Caccia, Giulia D'Amico, Maria Elisa Siccardi, Cecilia Previderè, Carlo Bertoglio, Barbara Tidball-Binz, Morris V. Ubelaker, Douglas Piscitelli, Vittorio Riccio, Silvana |
Keywords: | Humanitarian forensic sciences; Dead migrants; Identification; Mediterranean; Ambiguous loss; Identification strategy | Issue Date: | Jan-2023 | Publisher: | International Journal of Legal Medicine | Project: | Open access funding provided by University of Milan within the CRUI-CARE Agreement | Serial title, monograph or event: | International Journal of Legal Medicine | Volume: | 137 | Issue: | 1 | Abstract: | Europe is turning a blind eye on a humanitarian disaster unfolding at its doorsteps, with thousands of migrants dying unidentified in Mediterranean waters. Since 2014, Italy has been struggling in an almost indifferent international scenario to identify its dead migrants. Despite the lack of sufficient resources, of the difficulties in collecting post mortem data from the disseminated bodies, and of the problems of contacting and collecting ante mortem information from relatives, it has been proven, with a series of pilot studies, that not only can these bodies be identified but that relatives are also looking for their loved ones and need death certificates. This article focuses on the administrative limbo and lack of regulations obliging single states to engage in appropriate procedures to maximise identification. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/115023 | ISSN: | 0937-9827 1437-1596 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00414-022-02778-1 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FMUC Medicina - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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