Migrant Files

An award winning data journalism website coordinated by Journalism ++ with input from 15 nations.  It aims to offer data-driven stories about the migrant crisis in Europe to separate facts from hysteria.  It offers facts on deaths, numbers, costs. 

Here are some other sites which aim to provide factual information and monitoring of the refugee situation in Europe:

• The Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms (CILD) has  launched Open Migration, a new journalistic news site dealing with refugee issues.  It has analyses of UNHCR data and discussion from academic viewpoints
• The Humanitarian Data exchange is an open access initiative which has datasets and analyses
• 19 Million Project is an innovative group of journalists, humanitarians  and designers who are seeking ways to cover and tell the stories of refugees that reflect their reality.  Its website includes a blog and links to projects
• Deaths at the Border. A research project from VU University Amsterdam which is funded by NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.  It aims to provide accurate data on deaths, to  examine the hypothesis that an increased number of migrants have died on their way to Europe, and that deaths are related to EU border policies, and consider changes to the law.  Data are derived  from official sources generated by the death management systems of Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta and Greece.  Data provided  from 1990-2013 at present.  The site has extremely good visualization.
• Watch the Med an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at the maritime borders of the EU.  It includes accounts from migrants, mobile phone data, satellite reports and activist monitoring providing reports, news and mappings of crossings made by migrants and encounters with officials on the borders.