‘A question of dignity’: the pathologist identifying migrants drowned in the Med

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Since 2013, Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology and head of Labanof (the laboratory of forensic anthropology and odontology) at the University of Milan, has been committed to putting a name to every man, woman and child who has drowned at sea. Her goal is ambitious, perhaps impossible, and has underscored the indifference of European countries towards migrants and how states discriminate against asylum seekers, even in death.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/03/a-question-of-dignity-the-pathologist-identifying-migrants-drowned-in-the-med