The policy and media gaze focuses on numbers of migrant arrivals and deaths. There are problems in the data for both categories.

Destination: Europe (Forced Migration Review 51)

FMR 51 - Migrant arrivals and deaths in the Mediterranean: what do the data really tell us?

Europe is experiencing the mass movements of displaced people in a way that it has largely been immune from for decades. The manifestations of the 'migration crisis' are as disparate as the building of fences to stop people crossing normally peaceful borders, the deaths of people transported by smugglers in unseaworthy boats, EU political leaders bickering over a Common European Asylum System and the numbers they will or will not allow into their respective countries, and contentious responses to the disaster that continues to unfold in Syria. Alongside this we also see an upsurge of grass-roots compassion, solidarity and assistance to those whose human suffering on a grand scale in and around Europe constitutes the reality behind the rhetoric. FMR 51 includes 43 articles on 'Destination: Europe', plus five 'general' articles.

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Destination: Europe (Forced Migration Review 51)