SOLID: The Social Life of Dead Bodies
A new ethnographic approach to migrant deaths in and around the Mediterranean Sea
Since 2014, at least 34,000 migrants died or disappeared while crossing the Mediterranean in an attempt to reach Europe, according to the UN International Organisation for Migration. In 2024 alone, this number was 2,573 – a number likely to be higher when including those who are never found. SOLID explores the social life of deceased migrants in and around the Mediterranean Sea by bringing together forensic, social, economic, humanitarian, and political actors and perspectives on the same unidentified bodies of deceased migrants.
Identifying the consequences of unregulated migration is a major challenge. SOLID therefore explores the social life of deceased migrants in and around the Mediterranean Sea through the analytical lens of ‘social anatomy’. It employs a research strategy that is ethnographic, global and collaborative making use of qualitative and quantitative methods capable of mapping, tracing and stitching together the diverse configurations of social arrangements.
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