Lost at Sea. Issue 6 (1st October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Caruso, Daniela
• Is Part Of: German law journal. Volume 15:Issue 6(2014)
• Page Start: 1197
• Page End: 1208
• Publication Date: 2014-10-01
• Subjects: Law -- Germany -- Periodicals; Law -- Europe -- Periodicals; Comparative law -- Periodicals; International law -- Periodicals; jurisprudence; 349.4
• DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200019325
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2071-8322

Abstract

Abstract : This essay aims to expand the definitional contours of the "lost generation" discussed in this special section of the German Law Journal. A reflection on the existential loss experienced by many young Europeans must also acknowledge, for the record and for reasons of relative salience, those who have literally drowned in the waters of southern Europe in their quest for a better future. Their youth has been lost in a true—not just metaphorical or metaphysical—sense. The per-day death toll reached its peak on 3 October 2013, when over three hundred bodies were retrieved off the coast of Lampedusa by Maltese and Italian rescue forces. The just-concluded summer brought another tragic surge in Mediterranean migration, including more deadly shipwrecks.