MIXED MIGRATION FLOWS TO EUROPE
In Quarter 2 (Q2) of 2022, a complete of 38,008 migrants and refugees had been registered arriving by the three Mediterranean routes and the Western African Atlantic path to Europe, which is 8 per cent larger than the 37,306 arrivals registered in the identical interval in 2021, and nearly 4 occasions the ten,334 registered in Q2 of 2020.
Arrivals in Q2 of 2022 are 48 per cent larger in comparison with the earlier reporting interval (25,675 in Q1 2022).
About 55 per cent of all registered people in Q2 2022 arrived in Europe through the Central Mediterranean path to Italy and Malta (20,835). Round 14 per cent of arrivals had been registered in Spain, by the Western Mediterranean and Western African Atlantic routes (5,364 ). The remaining 31 per cent travelled by the Japanese Mediterranean path to Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria (11,809).
In comparison with Q2 of final 12 months, arrivals have elevated by 57 per cent alongside the Central Mediterranean route (CMR, in comparison with 13,299 in Q2 2021) and elevated by 89 per cent alongside the Japanese Mediterranean route (EMR), whereas they’ve decreased by 66 per cent alongside the Western Mediterranean (WMR) and Western African Atlantic routes (WAAR) mixed.
In line with out there information from nationwide authorities to this point in 2022, Afghanistan, Morocco, Bangladesh, Egypt and Syrian Arab Republic are probably the most continuously reported international locations of origin amongst all registered arrivals to Europe, adopted by many different international locations in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and Asia.
Arrivals registered on the CMR within the second quarter of 2022 by sea had been 20,835 which is 3 occasions the 6,832 arrivals of the earlier quarter (Q1 2022). Foremost nationalities at arrival by CMR in Q2 2022 had been Bangladesh, Egypt, Tunisia, and Afghanistan. Moreover, in the course of the second quarter of 2022, 6,440 migrants had been returned to Libya,1 which is 88 per cent greater than the three,423 returned in Q1 of 2022, however 32 per cent much less the interceptions registered in Q2 2021 (9,430). Moreover, at the very least 432 migrants perished whereas crossing the CMR within the second quarter of 2022, which is 31 per cent greater than the 331 within the first quarter of 2022.
Arrivals to Spain had been 5,364 in Q2 2022, which is one third of the arrivals registered in Q2 of 2021 (15,948). Arrivals within the second quarter of 2022 are 38 per cent lower than these in Q1 of 2022 (8,676). Greater than a half (54%) of the arrivals in Spain on this quarter was registered through sea by the WAAR to the Canary Islands. 37 per cent of arrivals had been registered by the WMR to mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, and 9 per cent by land to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Foremost nationalities reported at arrival in Spain are Morocco, Algeria, Guinea, Senegal, and Sudan. Within the second quarter of 2022, at east 193 individuals perished or disappeared at sea whereas on their approach to Spain. Of those, 136 died within the Atlantic Ocean whereas attempting to achieve the Canary Islands.
The EMR route represented the second largest variety of arrivals within the second quarter of 2022, with 11,809 migrants and refugees registered at arrival in Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria. That is 89 per cent extra arrivals registered on this route in the identical interval of 2021 (6,240), and 17 per cent greater than the arrivals in Q1 of 2022 (10,1360). Afghanistan, Syrian Arab Republic, Morocco and Iraq are the highest nationalities reported at arrivals in Greece and Bulgaria within the second quarter of 2022.
On the identical route, the Turkish Coast Guard (TCG) reported to have apprehended 12,580 individuals within the second quarter of the 12 months, whereas attempting to cross the ocean between Türkiye and Greece. Interceptions by the TCG had been 72 per cent larger than these in Q1 2022 (7,335) and nearly thrice larger than interceptions in the identical interval in 2021 (4,617).
Registrations of migrants apprehended by nationwide authorities within the Western Balkans – in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Kosovo* – had been 46,609 in Q2 of 2022. The quantity greater than doubled in comparison with the earlier quarter (20,638 in Q1 of 2022) and elevated by 47 per cent in comparison with Q2 of 2021 (31,690). Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syrian Arab Republic, and Bangladesh had been probably the most continuously reported international locations of origin of migrants travelling by the Western Balkans within the second quarter of 2022.
