Mediterranean migration towards Europe: System failure? / Karoline Popp.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Popp, Karoline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights and Refugees.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights and Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages)

Contained In:

Freedom from Fear Vol. 2016, no. 12, p. 20-25 2016:12<20 2519-0709

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2016.

System Details:

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Summary:

The Mediterranean has historically been a space of exchange, contact, and conquest. Migration - in all directions - has always been part of the cultural, political and economic negotiation around "Mare Nostrum." Few things, however, have thrown European identities and the European political project into question more than the recent movement of migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean. In 2014, more than 170,000 migrants reached Italian shores on maritime routes. Italy was the prime landing site for boats, departing mostly from Libya. Approximately a quarter of those crossing were Syrian refugees, while the remainder came from West Africa, Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa. In 2015, the phenomenon transformed from a "Mediterranean problem" into a European-wide one, with a marked shift from the Central Mediterranean Route (from North Africa to Italy) to the Eastern Mediterranean Route (from Turkey towards Greece and along the Balkan route towards Central, Western and Northern Europe). Between January and mid-December 2015, more than 800,000 individuals arrived in Greece, compared to 150,000 in Italy during the same period. The distribution in 2016 to date has remained roughly the same with 147,000 arrivals in Greece and 13,000 in Italy (see infographic).

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