Europe — Flow Monitoring Surveys in the Mediterranean and Beyond: Routes (January — November 2016)

Between January 2016 and 6 November 2016 IOM field staff in Greece, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Italy conducted interviews with 13,159 migrants and refugees. This week’s report focuses on providing an analysis on the responses provided by migrants and refugees travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route and the Eastern Mediterranean Route. While the top nationalities of respondents in Italy were Nigerians, Eritreans, Gambians, Senegalese, Bangladeshis (55% of the total), in the Eastern Mediterranean route they were primarily Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Pakistanis, and Iranians (89% of the total). On the Central Mediterranean route, the majority of respondents left because of war or political reasons (69%) while on the Eastern Mediterranean route, a larger percentage of respondents left because of war and conflict (72%).