Workshop on Crossing Data on Migrantsand Unidentified Remains

Over 60% of migrant victims of shipwrecks is buried unidentified: one of the reasons behind this is related to the specific difficulties and lack of strategies concerning AM and PM data collection. During the workshop will be illustrated how Italy is trying to face the problem of migrant identification, thanks to the collaboration between government, the Italian national police and universities. Strategies conceived to collect postmortem and especially antemortem data and to compare them to identify matches, using medicolegal, anthropological, odontological and genetic approaches will be illustrated. Critical points will be discussed concerning especially the lack of genetic information of the populations to which the victims belonged. Considering the peculiar scenario, novel strategies for positive identification will be discussed in each field (anthropological, odontological and genetic) as well as in combination.