DYING TO LIVE:

SOURCE: UNODC

JOURNEY OF A MIGRANT FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TO EUROPE.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?According to a report by the International

Organization for Migration (IOM), there are about 214 million migrants in the world today.

This makes up 3% of the world’s population

The movement of this 3% of the world’s population according to the report: ‘is now an essential, inevitable and potentially beneficial component of the economic and social life of every country and region’.

Migration has been part of human nature.

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the border of each state and to leave any country including his own and return to his country.’

Africa is the continent that matter most to the EU migration policy makers.

MIGRATION PROCESS

SENDING COUNTRYSENDING COUNTRY

TRANSIT COUNTRYTRANSIT COUNTRY

DESTINATION COUNTRYDESTINATION COUNTRY

MIGRATION ROUTES TO EUROPE: TRANS-SAHARAN /TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN MIGRATION

Trans-Saharan Migration

TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN MIGRATION

REUTERS – March 2011

REUTERS – August 2011

What are the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors?

Human Insecuri

ty

Human Insecuri

ty

Human Rights

Violations

Human Rights

Violations

Large Informal Econom

y

Large Informal Econom

y

Push Facto

rs

Large Formal Econom

ies

Large Formal Econom

ies

Globalization

Globalization

Demographic Crisis

Demographic Crisis

Pull Factors

How can this problem be controlled?

‘Human rights are intimately connected with every step of the migration process – they are often implicated in the reasons why people move; they feature in the treatment that migrants encounter in transit, the issue of their integration in host communities; and the question of return.’ Monette Zard.

Global Approach to Migration & Mobility: A ‘win-win-win’ situation.