New Mapping Refugee Too Migrant Stories


The Refugee Project is a mapped visualization of worldwide refugee migrations since 1975. The mapped timeline uses United Nations information to present refugee volumes too movement over time.

The circles some countries on the map correspond the publish of that country’s citizens living abroad equally refugees. Lines from each country's circle present all the unusual countries where its refugee nationals resided inwards that year.

The map also includes a publish of paper shaped icons. Click on these icons to read close the context behind each refugee crisis too an explanation of what people are running from too why.


Since the starting fourth dimension of the Syrian civil state of war at to the lowest degree 2 i K 1000 refugees select fled the dry soil too to a greater extent than than 5 i K 1000 select been displaced internally. Most of the refugees select fled to neighboring countries. This humanitarian crisis has placed a huge burden on Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Republic of Iraq too Iraqi Kurdistan.

Al Jazeera has created a mapped visualization to aid bring the scale of rehousing vii i K 1000 people. Where would 7 i K 1000 displaced Syrians fit? allows you lot to overlay the expanse needed to rehouse 7 i K 1000 people on whatsoever location inwards the United States.

The expanse of dry soil needed at each US location is based on the electrical current population density equally revealed past times the 2010 census. Viewing the refugee overlay on acme of your ain home-town actually conveys the humanitarian crisis caused past times the Syrian civil war.


Last twelvemonth the Global Mail created a superb mapped interactive study on i migrant's story. Filmmaker Matt Abbott gave Muhammad Hussain, a Hazara Pakistani close to laid upwardly out on a journeying to seek asylum inwards Australia, a video photographic telly camera too asked him to celluloid his experiences. The resultant is Hussain's Journey.

The Global Mail's mapped study starts off amongst Matt Abbot's ain recordings of Muhammad Hussain's identify unit of measurement too life inwards Karachi. When Muhammad laid upwardly off on his unsafe journeying to Commonwealth of Australia he took over the filming himself. The mapped study of this journeying allows you lot to sentiment his experiences inwards security houses, inwards smugglers’ homes and, inwards the concluding stretch of his journey, across the body of body of water inwards a rickety boat.
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