ABSTRACT
In recent years, considerable attention has been given to incidents of migrants dying as they attempt to enter foreign countries illegally. These deaths have been recorded in Spain (Simons 2004) and Sicily (Bruni 2002) as migrants have attempted to enter from Africa. On the island of Lampedusa at the southern-most point of Italy, every summer brings the arrival of illegal migrants in decrepit boats, many of whom never survive the journey (Bruni 2003). Numbers of these migrants are reported to sink with their broken vessels, later to be found by fishermen when they drag the sea floor with their nets (Bruni 2003). In Turkey, the discovery of 19 frozen bodies of illegal migrants, of which nine were children, in the mountainous border with Iran provides similar evidence of the problem (BBC News 2002).
