MIXED MIGRATION FLOWS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN COMPILATION OF AVAILABLE DATA AND INFORMATION OCTOBER 2017 Photo: Syrian Family Seeking Refugee in Turkey. IOM 2016/ Muse Mohammed TOTAL ARRIVALS TOTAL ARRIVALS TOTAL ARRIVALS 160,247 TO EUROPE 150,895 TO EUROPE BY SEA 9,352 TO EUROPE BY LAND Content Highlights • Cummulative Arrivals and Weekly Overview DTM Flow Monitoring data, compiled based on information received from • Overview Maps IOM offices and national authorities shows that between January and- Oc • Policy Updates tober 2017, a total of 160,247 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived • Relocations to Europe through land and sea routes. This represents a 55% decrease when compared to arrivals to Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus • Black Sea Event Tracking recorded during the same period in 2016 (total of 355,356). • Bulgaria However, when looking at each country dynamic, more than 70% of all mi- • Croatia grants and asylum seekers who arrived by sea (150,895) were registered • Cyprus in Italy. Between January and October, a total of 111,397 migrants disem- • Greece barked on Italian shores. This represents a 30% decrease compared to the previous year when 159,427 migrants were reported arriving to Italy. • Hungary Overall arrivals to Greece this year noticeably decreased (84%) in compari- • Italy son to the dynamic monitored throughout 2016, from 172,777 to 28,340 • Romania respectively. However, available data shows a slight rise in arrivals over the • Serbia past few months from a monthly average of 2,508 between May and July • Slovenia to an average of 5,015 between August and October. • Spain In regards to land routes, 46% of land arrivals have been recorded in two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla (4,314). Available data • Turkey shows that since January 2017, 19,067 migrants have arrived to Spain by • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia sea and land, which, in contrast to the sitaution in Greece and Italy, repre- • Central Mediterranean sents a 120% increase when compared to the same period in 2016. • Contingency Countries During this reporting period, there were no reported incidents in the Black Sea region. For an overview of collected data on apprehensions in August • Missing Migrants: Fatalities/Missing in the and September, please check page 8. Mediterranean and Aegenan • About this report Contact: Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) [email protected], [email protected] MIGRATION FLOWS FROM IRAQ TO EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATIONDISPLACEMENT FLOWS TRACKING FROM & MONITORING IRAQ TO (DTM) EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATIONDISPLACEMENT FLOWS TO TRACKING EUROPE & MONITORING (DTM) DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX (DTM) OCTOBER 2017 Overview of Arrivals Daily and cumulative figures since 1 January 2017 120,000 111,397 100,000 80,000 Bulgaria Cyprus 60,000 Spain Italy 40,000 Greece 28,340 20,000 19,067 853 0 590 1-Jan-17 1-Feb-17 1-Mar-17 1-Apr-17 1-May-17 1-Jun-17 1-Jul-17 1-Aug-17 1-Sep-17 1-Oct-17 Cumulative arrivals in 2017 Arrivals in October 2017 Greece 28,340 Spain 17.7% Greece Spain 5,007 2,894 19,067 35.9% 20.7% 11.9% Bulgaria 46 Bulgaria 0.3% 590 Cyprus 0.4% 34 0.2% Cyprus 853 0.5% Italy Italy 5,979 111,397 42.8% 69.5% 2 MIGRATION FLOWS FROM IRAQ TO EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATION FLOWSDISPLACEMENT TO EUROPE TRACKING & MONITORING (DTM) DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX(DTM) OCTOBER 2017 Daily and monthly figures: other countries* Irregular entries to Hungary 1600 60 1400 50 1200 40 1000 800 30 Daily Cumulative 600 20 400 10 200 0 0 5-Jul-17 1-Jan-17 6-Jan-17 5-Jun-17 3-Oct-17 8-Oct-17 1-Apr-17 6-Apr-17 5-Feb-17 3-Sep-17 8-Sep-17 4-Aug-17 9-Aug-17 10-Jul-17 15-Jul-17 20-Jul-17 25-Jul-17 30-Jul-17 2-Mar-17 7-Mar-17 1-May-17 6-May-17 11-Jan-17 16-Jan-17 21-Jan-17 26-Jan-17 31-Jan-17 10-Jun-17 15-Jun-17 20-Jun-17 25-Jun-17 30-Jun-17 13-Oct-17 18-Oct-17 23-Oct-17 28-Oct-17 21-Apr-17 26-Apr-17 11-Apr-17 16-Apr-17 10-Feb-17 15-Feb-17 20-Feb-17 25-Feb-17 13-Sep-17 18-Sep-17 23-Sep-17 28-Sep-17 14-Aug-17 19-Aug-17 24-Aug-17 29-Aug-17 12-Mar-17 17-Mar-17 22-Mar-17 27-Mar-17 11-May-17 16-May-17 21-May-17 26-May-17 31-May-17 Cumulative arrivals in 2017 Daily arrivals Registered arrivals to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 120 450 106 411 400 100 382 90 350 318 80 300 64 250 60 56 228 200 45 40 150 29 122 100 72 77 20 14 77 58 50 5 2 0 0 0 Monthly Cumulative *There were no recorded arrivals in other countries on the Western Balkans route in the reporting period. 3 MIGRATION FLOWS FROM IRAQ TO EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATIONDISPLACEMENT FLOWS TRACKING FROM & MONITORING IRAQ TO (DTM) EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATIONDISPLACEMENT FLOWS TO TRACKING EUROPE & MONITORING (DTM) DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX (DTM) OCTOBER 2017 Overview Map - Migrants Flows to Europe 4 MIGRATION FLOWS FROM IRAQ TO EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATION FLOWSDISPLACEMENT TO EUROPE TRACKING & MONITORING (DTM) DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX(DTM) OCTOBER 2017 Overview - Presence of Migrants and Asylum Seekers STRANDED MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS - CHANGES OVER TIME Country MARCH 2016 OCTOBER 2016 OCTOBER 2017 Greece 42,688 60,948 54,225 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1,199 216 30 Serbia 1,706 4,315 4,500 Croatia* 231 597 518 Slovenia* 408 283 237 Hungary / 307 526 Bulgaria 865 7,071 1,333 Cyprus* / / 285 Romania* / / 1,121 *Number of Asylum Seekers. 5 MIGRATION FLOWS FROM IRAQ TO EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATIONDISPLACEMENT FLOWS TRACKING FROM & MONITORING IRAQ TO (DTM) EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATIONDISPLACEMENT FLOWS TO TRACKING EUROPE & MONITORING (DTM) DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX (DTM) OCTOBER 2017 Policy Updates Reform of the Dublin System EU- Turkey Statement European Commission proposed a reform of the Dublin On 18 March 2016, the European Union and Turkey system to establish a fair and sustainable system to ensure have agreed on a plan to end irregular migration flows that when an overwhelming number of asylum requests from Turkey to the EU. The document states that from are submitted in just one Member State, the number of 20 March 2016 all persons who do not have a right to asylum seekers exceeding the absorption capacity of the international protection in Greece will be returned to country will be distributed among all Member States that Turkey, based on the Readmission Agreement from 2002 are not confronted with excessive pressure. The reform signed between the countries. In order to create a smooth shall introduce a corrective allocation mechanism (the process, Turkey and Greece as well as the EU institutions fairness mechanism). The main elements of the new and agencies will take all the necessary steps and agree on system are following: any necessary bilateral agreements including the presence • a new automated system to monitor the number of of Turkish officials on Greek islands and vice versa as of 20 asylum applications each Member State receives and March 2016 in order to ensure the liaison and a better the number of persons effectively resettled by each functioning of the return mechanism. The Commission will coordinate all necessary support for Greece, under • a reference key to help determine when one Member the EU-Turkey Statement, and will develop an operational State is under disproportionate pressure plan. • a fairness mechanism to alleviate pressure on Member The whole document is available here and for the latest State EC report on Relocation and Resettlement please check Factsheet about the reform is available here. here. Number of resettled Syrian migrants from Turkey between April 2016 and beginning of November 2017* 12,000 11,361 10,000 8,000 6,000 3,803 4,000 2,628 2,000 1,096 994 747 797 327 395 190 206 32 46 42 30 17 11 0 *Source: European Commission as of 10 November 2017. 6 MIGRATION FLOWS FROM IRAQ TO EUROPE FEBRUARY 2016 MIGRATION FLOWSDISPLACEMENT TO EUROPE TRACKING & MONITORING (DTM) DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX(DTM) OCTOBER 2017 Relocations as of 31 October 2017 Based the on Commission’s proposals, the Justice and Home Affairs Council adopted two decisions in September 2015 to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from frontline Member States, to assist them in dealing with the pressures of the refugee crisis. Under the emergency relocation scheme, up to 106,000 persons in need of international protection with a high chance of having their applications successfully processed (EU average recognition rate of over 75%) are to be relocated from Greece and Italy, where they have arrived, to other Member States where they will have their asylum applications processed. If these applications are successful, the applicants will be granted refugee status with the right to reside in the Member State to which they are relocated. Following the EU-Turkey Statement of 18 March 2016, total of 54,000 places which had been foreseen for relocation from possible other Member States, were re-allocated for the purpose of legal admission of Syrians from Turkey to the EU. In 2017, the Commission noted that while the number of eligible persons in Greece and Italy is lower than expected, several thousand beneficiaries still need to be relocated to reach all eligible asylum seekers within the remaining months.