Analyses

In Zarzis, southern Tunisia, the victims of the Libyan route are washed ashore by the currents or retrieved while floating in the sea. They are the men, women, and children who have drowned in their attempt to cross the Mediterranean and reach Europe. Hardly a day passes by without fishermen or volunteers recovering a dead body. It is often impossible to identify them, but the fishermen struggle to give a proper burial to the nameless ones too, even if only under the sand dunes. Giulia Bertoluzzi spent some time with the fishermen and wrote a report for Open Migration, which anticipates the making of a documentary.