ABSTRACT
The Mediterranean Sea has always been a passage for human movement, carrying flows of people and goods on its currents, be it tourists on yachts and cruise liners, soldiers on naval vessels, sailors on container ships, or migrants on dinghies. More recently, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the central Mediterranean experienced an increase in irregular transit migration, as migrants and refugees search for new routes into Europe and attempt the dangerous voyage from the poorer southern shores to the richer northern ones.
