Rencontre avec Marie Cosnay

What does European immigration policy do to relationships, families, and bodies? What should be done with the bodies of those who disappear while in exile, and how can they be restored the human dignity denied to them even in death?

On the shores of the Alboran Sea, Marie Cosnay explores the deaths along the routes of exile and Europe’s refusal to grant the dead a dignified burial or repatriation. She exposes the people behind a sordid trade in searching for and identifying these bodies, and tirelessly searches for her friend Ryad’s brother, who disappeared in the Alboran Sea.

Des îles 3 is the final volume in a trilogy that will remain a contemporary account of the period we are living through: both “the preparation of a trial to come” and the story of a humanitarian disaster.