{"id":2493,"date":"2016-03-18T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","slug":"migrant-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/03\/18\/migrant-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">An award <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themigrantsfiles.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">winning data journalism website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> coordinated by Journalism ++ with input from 15 nations.\u00a0 It aims to offer data-driven stories about the migrant crisis in Europe to separate facts from hysteria.\u00a0 It offers facts on deaths, numbers, costs.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Here are some other sites which aim to provide factual information and monitoring of the refugee situation in Europe:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cilditalia.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms (CILD)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> has \u00a0launched <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/openmigration.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Open Migration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">, a new journalistic news site dealing with refugee issues.\u00a0 It has analyses of UNHCR data and discussion from academic viewpoints<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.hdx.rwlabs.org\/search?q=mediterranean\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Humanitarian Data exchange<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> is an open access initiative which has datasets and analyses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the19millionproject.com\/resources\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">19 Million Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> is an innovative group of journalists, humanitarians\u00a0 and designers who are seeking ways to cover and tell the stories of refugees that reflect their reality.\u00a0 Its website includes a blog and links to projects<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderdeaths.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Deaths at the Border<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">. A research project from VU University Amsterdam which is funded by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwo.nl\/en\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.\u00a0 It aims to provide accurate data on deaths, to \u00a0examine the hypothesis that an increased number of migrants have died on their way to Europe,\u00a0and that\u00a0deaths are related to EU border policies, and consider changes to the law.\u00a0 Data are derived \u00a0from official sources generated by the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borderdeaths.org\/?page_id=7\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">death management systems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> of Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta and Greece.\u00a0 Data provided\u00a0 from 1990-2013 at present.\u00a0 The site has extremely good visualization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/watchthemed.net\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Watch the Med<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants\u2019 rights at the maritime borders of the EU.\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award winning data journalism website coordinated by Journalism ++ with input from 15 nations.\u00a0 It aims to offer data-driven stories about the migrant crisis in Europe to separate facts from hysteria.\u00a0 It offers facts on deaths, numbers, costs.\u00a0 Here are some other sites which aim to provide factual information and monitoring of the refugee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,13,15],"tags":[64,103],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-journalism","tag-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}