Introduction
The year 2023 brings once again a catastrophic toll in terms of the victims of European migration policies. On 22 June 2023, a decrepit trawler from Libya sank off the Peloponnese, leaving hundreds of victims. On 13 July 2023, another migrant boat from Sfax in Tunisia capsized off Lampedusa, killing around forty. A few days later, a mother and daughter from the Ivory Coast were found dead in the desert as they tried to reach Tunisia. In fact, the central Mediterranean between North Africa and Italy became the new route adopted by the majority of migrants that aim to reach European soil. This route is also the most dangerous in the world, with more than 20,000 deaths since 2014 according to the International Organisation for …
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