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The Adriatic of sun, fun, pleasure and tourism vs. The unsafe seas of people smuggling, covid-19 and illegal yacht routes

The connotations of the Adriatic are those of the wider Mediterranean. - sun, fun, relaxation, pleasure. Yet for centuries the Adriatic had its hidden corollaries of pain, anxiety, suffering, dying. The most recent ones concerning the phenomena of people smuggling over the Mediterranean. The phenomena is not new and has worsened due to the pandemic global situation. In the midst of our Covid-19 living the life’s of those in reaching the EU shores through the Adriatic have become even more invisible, while more surveilled. As such they represent the most extreme cases of methodological untouchability in opposition to the sensationalistic media exposure in times of dramatic happenings such as the portrayals of children’s deaths on shores. Can they be counted? How visible are they for the media? In times of Covid-19 the existential burdens of certain people along their unknown routes testify that our ignorance is greater than declared or thought possible. In the case of smuggled people the reverse is also the case. If we had the complex knowledge what would we do with it? Would we apply it towards the populational benefit or would we have the ideal niche of recording deaths while not advancing the human law aspects such as human protection and human rights (Grant, 2011). Corollary to this, equal questions of concern remain for the Covid unregistered and underreported under dramatic circumstances, yet in the contexts of heightened profit gaining climates, such as tourism. The research of this paper is aimed at exposing the many possible layer’s of approach towards unprotected populations of which two are most pertinent – a) the way in which their life’s are in constant dramatic contrast with everyday leisure living of the EU Mediterranean frontiers, even under Covid- 19, and b) the hardships of their invisibility, methodological unreachability.

Adriatic, people smuggling, covid

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