ABSTRACT
A very short article on November 6, 2007 in the French newspaper Le Monde, reported that 47 ‘clandestine’ (or ‘undocumented’ or ‘illegal’) immigrants drowned at sea off the coast of Mauritania trying to reach the Canary Islands, a group of islands owned by Spain and a stepping stone for migrating to the Spanish mainland and eventually elsewhere in the European Union (see Map 1.1).
