Flow Monitoring

Përmbledhje mujore të:

• Arritjet në Ballkanin Perëndimor
• Tre kombësitë kryesore të arriturëve
• Prania e migrantëve në qendrat pritëse
• Kthimet vullnetare dhe të asistuara

Monthly Overview of:

• Arrivals in the Western Balkans
• Top three nationalities at arrivals in the reporting month
• Migrants presence in reception facilities
• Assisted Voluntary Returns and reintegration

Cantons: Alajuela, Cartago, Escazú, Corredores, Heredia, Los Chiles, San Carlos, San José, Santa Ana, Tibás

Costa Rica, like the other countries in the Central American region, has been characterized as a migratory corridor for people who transit by land from the south to the north of America and whose destination is the countries in the north of the continent. This flow on the move through the Americas is mainly made up of people from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Ecuador, as well as people from other countries in South America, Africa and Asia.
 
According to estimations from IOM Costa Rica, during February 41,326 people entered the country, an approximate average of 1,425 people per day and estimating a increase of 10% compared to January 2024. In addition, 1,088 people stranded in the monitored shelters were identified and 1,225 people stranded in the public places visited.
 

Cantones: Alajuela, Cartago, Escazú, Corredores, Heredia, Los Chiles, San Carlos, San José, Santa Ana, Tibás

Costa Rica, al igual que los demás países de la región centroamericana, se ha caracterizado por ser un corredor migratorio para personas que transitan de manera terrestre desde el sur hasta el norte de América y que tienen como destino los países del norte del continente. Este flujo en situación de movilidad por las Américas se encuentra compuesto principalmente por personas de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Cuba, Haití, Ecuador, así como personas provenientes de otros países de Suramérica, África y Asia.
 
Según estimaciones de la OIM Costa Rica, durante febrero ingresaron al país 41.326 personas, un promedio aproximado de 1.425 personas por día y estimando un aumento de un 10% con respecto a enero de 2024. Además, se identificaron 1.088 personas varadas en los albergues monitoreados y 1.225 personas varadas en los sitios públicos visitados.
 

This report presents the results of the third round of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Flow Monitoring Surveys (FMS) implemented in Serbia. FMS provides a snapshot of the profiles, experiences and needs of migrants residing in reception centres in Serbia. The data was collected from 20 June to 31 August 2023 in the reception centre in Preševo, in the southern region bordering North Macedonia, and in asylum centres of Obrenovac and Krnjača, close to the capital city of Belgrade. IOM, in partnership with the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia (known by its Serbian acronym as KIRS), interviewed a total of 208 individual respondents.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Snowflake held a two-part hackathon in London in collaboration with University College London (UCL) (6-7 October 2023) and in Nairobi (23-26 October 2023). The hackthons presented a unique opportunity for IOM to enhance key technical processes related to data collation, compilation and analysis, with direct implications for future use of IOM’s mobility data for climate mobility research.

Furthermore, the exercises yielded valuable insights into into the feasibility of using advanced analytics for climate migration research and the critical challenges in harnessing environmental and climate-induced disaster data. Issues such as spatial and temporal coverage limitations, incompatibility and incomparability among climate data sources, data interoperability constraints, and the spatial heterogeneity of climate data were identified.

The findings can shape future research using IOM’s mobility data to contribute to the climate mobility knowledge base and also serve as a catalyst for improving data accessibility, ultimately enhancing the analytic potential of IOM’s mobility data. This aligns with IOM’s core institutional priorities and commitment to contributing to a better understanding of mobility driven by climate change and environmental degradation.

Since 29 February 2024, several neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince (MAPAP), the capital of Haiti, have been targeted by increased armed attacks. Nearly 15,000 people were displaced following these attacks (see ETT 39.1). In addition to creating displacement within the MAPAP, these attacks are pushing more and more people to leave the capital to find refuge in provinces, taking the risks of passing through routes controlled by gangs. In order to monitor these movements towards the provinces and inform appropriate response strategies, DTM has launched data collections at several of the most used bus stations in the capital (see page 4 for more details on the methodology). Since the start of this activity, on 8 March, until 10 March, this activity allowed to observe the movements of 7,672 people leaving the MAPAP (see pages 2 and 3 for more details on the profile of these people ). The majority of them (66%) took means of transport heading towards the Grand Sud departments (Grande’Anse, South, Nippes and South-East). It should be noted that this region already hosts more than 116,000 people who had in vast majority, fled the MAPAP in recent months (see the report on displacement in the Grand Sud).

According to the latest available figures from the Turkish Presidency of Migration Management (PMM), there are more than 4.5 million foreign nationals present in Türkiye, 3.4 million of whom are seeking international protection. Most are Syrians (3,151,915 individuals) who have been granted temporary protection status. In addition, international protection holders from countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Ukraine constitute another group of foreign nationals. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there were 296,685 refugees and asylum-seekers in Türkiye as of 2023. Moreover in 2023, according to PMM, there were 19,017 international protection applicants in the country, a figure released by PMM annually.
In addition, there are 1,113,435 foreign nationals present in Türkiye, holding residence permits. Compared to February 2023, this is a decrease of 226,303 individuals.

La Mauritanie est un pays particulièrement vulnérable aux risques de catastrophes telles que les sécheresses et les inondations. Dans le contexte du changement climatique, le pays a connu ces dernières années des événements environnementaux extrêmes se matérialisant par des sécheresses prolongées, des inondations et des feux de brousses ravageant d’importantes surfaces de terres agricoles.

Face à cette situation et à une menace toujours présente, il est devenu urgent de prévenir ces catastrophes et de renforcer la capacité des différents acteurs intervenant dans la réduction des risques de catastrophe et la gestion des catastrophes à faire face aux menaces. C’est dans ce cadre que dans le projet visant la réduction des risques de catastrophes, financé par la protection civile et l’aide humanitaire de l’Union Européenne, un réseau d’informateurs clés (au niveau communautaire) et un système d’alertes précoces sur les risques de catastrophes ont été mis en place au niveau de dix villages de la moughataa  (département) de Bassikounou et de dix autres dans la moughataa de Adel Bagrou. Ces informateurs clés remontent les informations (alertes météos, risques de sécheresses, etc.) vers un point focal des alertes qui se charge de vérifier la véracité et la pertinence de l’information avant d’en informer les services techniques compétents.

This profile provides information on the situation and vulnerabilities of Sudanese migrants in Libya, including those having arrived after the onset of conflict in mid-April 2023 and provides an update to a brief published in May 2023.

The information pertaining to migrants’ situation and vulnerabilities is based on quantitative individual interviews conducted by DTM Libya with 4,274 migrants in 2023, unless stated otherwise. The migrant population figures are based on data collected through key informant interviews.