S2E3: Missing Migrants

Data Is Plural

This episode’s guest is Julia Black, coordinator of the International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project, featured in the January 15, 2020 edition of the Data Is Plural newsletter. The project “records incidents in which migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, have died at state borders or in the process of migrating to an international destination.” Julia describes how her team gathers that information, the obstacles they face, how they deal with uncertainty and varying source quality, and how their approach has changed in the decade since the project launched.

Relevant and mentioned links:

• Missing Migrants Project
• The team
• MMP’s data landing page
• MMP’s data downloads
• MMP’s methodology
• MMP’s other publications
• Stories of families of missing migrants
• The 2013 Lampedusa shipwrecks
• The Human Rights Watch report mentioned, on violence against Ethiopian migrants at the Yemen-Saudi border

Theme music by Nikhil Sonnad.