Simonsen Lab

University of Copenhagen

Danmark (DK0) · Denmark

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

The Social Life of Dead Bodies. A new ethnographic approach to migrant deaths in and around the Mediterranean Sea

Thousands of people have died in the attempt to migrate into Europe through irregular channels. In fact, 2023 has seen the highest number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean since 2017 . We only ever see very few of these bodies. Some die in the deserts of Sudan and Libya never to be found, others get stuck inside shipwrecks at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Even the dead bodies that end up on the shores of Europe often remain unknown and thus socially obscure. However, in their local communities left behind, the dead and missing continue to hold great social importance. SOLID presents an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the social life of…

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