MCP • Migration Country Profiles [ Click on the picture to access the portal ] The Migration Country Profiles project aspires to contribute to a better understanding of migratory trends across Africa and the Middle East towards Europe. The project focuses specifically on...
Deaths in the first months of 2017 have increased compared to 2016. The smugglers are increasingly taking risks which have resulted in incidents where significant numbers of people have lost their lives....
One out of ten respondents in a global survey said they would welcome refugees in their homes, while 80% overall said they would want their country to provide shelter.Respondents in China, Germany and the UK emerged as overall the most welcoming countries in the world. ...
Migrants have been dying in the Mediterranean since at least the 1980s but the year 2000 is considered a benchmark year when Europe really started building up border control in response to the phenomenon. In many cases these actions largely displaced the problem from one...
Seaborne travel from northern Rakhine to Malaysia via Thailand gained momentum in 2006, according to the Arakan Project, an NGO that has monitors seaborne migration in the region, although a few boats sailed from the mid-1990s when travel restrictions in Rakhine began to be tightened. The...