MIXED MIGRATION FLOWS in the MEDITERRANEAN Compilation of Available Data and Information June 2019
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MIXEDMIXED MIGRATIONMIGRATION FLOWSFLOWS ININ THETHE MEDITERRANEANMEDITERRANEAN Compilation of Available DataCompilation and Information of Available Data and Information August 2019 June 2019 migration.iom.int displacement.iom.int [email protected] IOM Italy 2018 - Informative session upon disembarkation, Sicily MIXEDMIXED MIGRATIONMIGRATION FLOWSFLOWS ININ THETHE MEDITERRANEANMEDITERRANEAN CompilationCompilation ofof AvailableAvailable DataData andand InformationInformation JuneAugust 2019 2019 Contents HIGHLIGHTS Highlights ..................................................4 Overview of Arrivals ........................................6 Overview Maps .............................................7 A total of 40,537 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe to the Spanish autonomous enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in throughTransit different Countries land -and Registered sea routes betweenIrregular January Arrivals/Apprehensions and the North of . Africa. 9. According to available data from the PolicyJune 2019, Developments 29 per cent less ........................................than the same period last year, Spanish Ministry of Interior,11 Morocco is the first declared when some 59,446 sea and land arrivals were reported, 60 origin country of migrants and refugees who arrived in Spain per centEU-Turkey less than the Statement105,884 arrivals and registered the Western in 2017 and Mediterranean between January route and . 11 June 2019 (33% of the total), followed 85 per Centralcent less than Mediterranean the 239,157 registered route between ............................. January by Guinea (13%), Mali11 (13%), Côte d’Ivoire (8%) and Senegal and June 2016 . (8%) (see more here) . Western Mediterranean route ............................11 Fifty-seven per cent of all arrivals were registered in Cyprus, Italian authorities reported the arrivals of 2,779 migrants BulgariaGlobal and Greece Compact . Another on 33 Migration per cent ............................of individuals and refugees between12 January and June 2019 . Arrivals in have arrivedCall forin Europe Regional through Disembarkation the Western Mediterranean ......................... the first six months 12of 2019 have decreased by 83 per cent route leading to Spain, and the remaining 10 per cent were compared to the same period of 2018 when 16,577 arrivals rescuedCountries and broughtof First to Arrival Italy and ..................................... Malta in their attempt to were registered, and13 are only a fragment of the 83,752 crossItaly the .....................................................Central Mediterranean route . This indicates that the reported between January13 and June 2017 . Twenty-one per Eastern Mediterranean route continues to surpass both the cent of migrants registered in the first half of the year were WesternGreece and ..................................................the Central Mediterranean routes as the main of Tunisian origin, followed17 by those from Pakistan (15%), routeSpain taken .................................................... by the migrants and refugees arriving to Europe Algeria (10%), Iraq (9%)19 and other African and Southern between January and June 2019 . Asian countries . (read more here) . Tunisian nationals also Malta ....................................................made up the majority22 of arrivals between January and June The Eastern Mediterranean route was also the most active 2018 (18% of the total), followed by migrants from Eritrea1 routeCyprus in the first .................................................. six months of 2018, making up 42 per cent 23 (15%), Sudan (9%), Nigeria (7%), and Côte d’Ivoire (6%) . of registeredBulgaria arrivals,. followed. by. the. .Western . .Mediterranean . 24 route (30%) and the Central Mediterranean route (28%) . A total of 1,256 migrants and refugees arrived in Malta in Transit Countries* ..........................................the first half of 2019 26. This is significantly higher than the 235 Between January and June 2019, Hellenic Authorities migrants reported to have arrived in Malta in the first six reportedCroatia 18,448 .................................................. new arrivals to Greece, making the Eastern 26 months of 2018 . According to the available data from national Mediterranean route the most active route for arrivals to Romania .................................................authorities, Sudan is 28the first reported nationality at arrival Europe in the region . Arrivals this year in Greece are 19 per (37%), followed by Eritrea2 (12%) and Nigeria (8%) . centSerbia lower than................................................... the 22,899 registered in the first six months 29 of 2018Slovenia and 73 ................................................. per cent more than the 10,679 reported Authorities in the Western31 Balkans, namely Bosnia and in 2017 . Twenty-two per cent of all migrants and refugees Herzegovina, Albania and Montenegro, have observed a registeredThe Republic arriving in Greeceof North so far Macedonia crossed into the .......................... country significant increase in33 arrivals in 2019 and have registered a throughTurkey land routes,.................................................. and the remaining 78 per cent arrived by total of 15,549 and 35refugees as of June (read more here), sea . Forty per cent of the registered population that arrived This is 36 per cent more than the 11,413 registered in 2018 inWestern the country Balkans by sea werein Focus of Afghan .................................... origin . Nationals from in all three countries 39and twenty-four times higher than the the AlbaniaSyrian Arab .................................................. Republic were the second most registered 649 registered between40 January and June 2017 . An increase is (14%), followed by those arriving from Iraq (8%), Palestinian also observed in registered entries to Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) . TerritoriesBosnia (8%), and andHerzegovina the Democratic ................................... Republic of Congo In the second half of 412018, 80 per cent of the overall yearly (8%)Kosovo . In addition UNCR to that, 1244DTM flow** ..................................... monitoring data from the arrivals were reported,43 which continued into 2019 with the Evros region in the North of Greece shows that the majority reporting of 496 migrants as of June, five times more than of migrantsMontenegro (45%) who ............................................. were registered arriving from Turkey 108 registered in the 44same period of 2018 (read more here) . Centralto Greece, Mediterraneanmainly by land, were - ofOther Turkish Countries origin (read more ...................... Pakistan, Afghanistan,46 Syrian Arab Republic, Algeria and Iraq here) . were the main nationality groups registered in the countries Libya ....................................................in the region in the first46 half of 2019 . A total of 13,263 migrants and refugees were registered in SpainNiger (WMR) ................................................... between January and June 2019, 26 per cent 47 Missingless than theMigrants: 17,950 registered in 2018, and 41 per cent Fatalities/Missingmore than the 9,401 registeredin the Mediterranean in the same period and of 2017 Aegean . ...............1 The information on nationality48 breakdown provided in this report is based Among the total registered migrants arriving to Spain in the on the nationality declared by migrants as reported by the Italian Ministry About this Report ...........................................of Interior . 49 first six months of 2019, 79 per cent (10,475) arrived by sea 2 The information on nationality breakdown provided in this report is based and the remaining 21 per cent (2,788) arrived by land, mainly on the nationality declared by migrants as reported by the Government * The term transit country is used in the context of the ongoing DTMof flowMalta monitoring of movements from Middle East and Africa towards Europe. It does not imply any official accepted profiling of the countries concerned. 4 ** This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 Photo/ cover page: Migrants’ reception 2 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence. centre in Ventimiglia, close to the border between Italy and France. IOM Italy/2019. MIXED MIGRATION FLOWS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Compilation of Available Data and Information June 2019 HIGHLIGHTS A total of 40,537 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe to the Spanish autonomous enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in through different land and sea routes between January and the North of Africa . According to available data from the June 2019, 29 per cent less than the same period last year, Spanish Ministry of Interior, Morocco is the first declared when some 59,446 sea and land arrivals were reported, 60 origin country of migrants and refugees who arrived in Spain per cent less than the 105,884 arrivals registered in 2017 and between January and June 2019 (33% of the total), followed 85 per cent less than the 239,157 registered between January by Guinea (13%), Mali (13%), Côte d’Ivoire (8%) and Senegal and June 2016 . (8%) (see more here) . Fifty-seven per cent of all arrivals were registered in Cyprus, Italian authorities reported the arrivals of 2,779 migrants Bulgaria and Greece . Another 33 per cent of individuals and refugees between January and June 2019 . Arrivals in have arrived in Europe through the Western Mediterranean