Preventing migrant deaths: A possible role for situational crime prevention Book Chapter

Guerette, RT. (2016). Preventing migrant deaths: A possible role for situational crime prevention . 185-197. 10.4324/9781315595351-22

cited authors

  • Guerette, RT

authors

abstract

  • In recent years, considerable attention has been given to incidents of migrants dyingas they attempt to enter foreign countries illegally. These deaths have been recordedin Spain (Simons 2004) and Sicily (Bruni 2002) as migrants have attempted to enterfrom Africa. On the island of Lampedusa at the southern-most point of Italy, everysummer brings the arrival of illegal migrants in decrepit boats, many of whom neversurvive the journey (Bruni 2003). Numbers of these migrants are reported to sinkwith their broken vessels, later to be found by fi shermen when they drag the sea floorwith their nets (Bruni 2003). In Turkey, the discovery of 19 frozen bodies of illegalmigrants, of which nine were children, in the mountainous border with Iran providessimilar evidence of the problem (BBC News 2002).

publication date

  • January 1, 2016

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

start page

  • 185

end page

  • 197