New From Africa To Europe - Refugee Journeys


More than 5,000 refugees died final twelvemonth trying to acquire to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea yesteryear Boat - Mapping together with Documenting Migratory Journeys together with Experiences is an international query project, led yesteryear the University of Warwick, which carried out 257 in-depth qualitative interviews amongst people who convey made this journey.

The projection has released an interactive storey map which allows y'all to persuasion some of these migratory journeys on a map, piece too learning well-nigh the private experiences of the people who real made the journeys.

Each of these private journeys are mapped to exhibit each phase of the person's migration from Africa to Europe. 'Back' together with 'Next' buttons let the user to follow each phase of the journeying made yesteryear the interviewed refugees. As the map updates the map side-panel too updates to render information well-nigh the journey. This information includes the first-hand experiences of the private refugee together with to a greater extent than full general information well-nigh the weather condition that refugees sense at the mapped locations.


15 Years: Fortress Europe is an animated map of migrant together with refugee deaths inwards Europe over the final 15 years. The map uses information from the Migrant Files to exhibit where together with when migrants convey died inwards trying to acquire to Europe, or inwards trying to displace around the continent.

As the map plays through the 15 years of information cherry-red markers are added to the map to exhibit the location of each migrant death. The map sidebar continually updates to exhibit details well-nigh each migrant decease together with y'all tin click on private markers on the map to read to a greater extent than details well-nigh each of these deaths.

Since 2013 the Migrant Files has been maintaining a database of migrants who convey died inwards Europe or on their means to Europe. The database lists to a greater extent than than 30,000 people who convey died trying to acquire to Europe since the twelvemonth 2000.

An interactive map on the Migrant Files website shows that a large proportion of these deaths come about inwards the Mediterranean, especially amid migrants trying to cross from Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya & Tunisia to Italy.


The Silk squad has too created an interactive map from the Migrants' Files information examining the release of migrant deaths inwards the Mediterranean. Their map allows y'all to query the information well-nigh migrant deaths yesteryear year, location together with displace of death.

If y'all click on a map mark on the Fatal Migration Incidents inwards the Mediterranean map y'all tin read details well-nigh the mapped incident, including the release of casualties together with the appointment of the incident.


The Migrant Map 2000-2015 is some other interactive map of the Migrant Files data, visualizing the release of dead or missing migrants across Europe together with Africa. The map presents a genuinely shocking film of the scale of this human tragedy.

You tin conduct markers on the map to larn to a greater extent than well-nigh the private cases reported together with well-nigh the source of the information. The map too includes an animated heat-map layer which helps to highlight some of the hot-spots for migrant deaths over the final half dozen years.
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