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H U M A N I TA R I A N I N F O R M AT I O N U N I T
European Mitigation Efforts
European Response Relocation Efforts since Sep. 2015
Since 2014, over 1.6 million NORWAY FINLAND As of March, 27 countries have pledged to make
migrants and asylum over 26,790 spaces available for asylum seekers*
seekers have arrived by sea currently in Italy and Greece. Authorities have
S W E D E N Baltic relocated over 4,700 asylum seekers in Italy, where
to Europe. European ESTONIA Italian authorities have so far registered
countries registered over Sea
RUSSIA 5,300-5,800 eligible Eritreans, and 11,200 asylum
3.18 million new asylum seekers in Greece, where Greece has registered
applications. Over 700,000 LATVIA about 20,000-25,000 currently eligible persons.
applicants were granted a DENMARK
Country Pledged Relocated
LITHUANIA
form of protective status, Austria 0 0
mostly in Germany, France, RUS. Belgium 630 492
Sweden, Italy, and the Bulgaria 450 29
Netherlands, with 450,000 BELARUS Croatia 46 19
UNITED
applicants rejected in the K I NGD OM NETH. POLAND Cyprus 140 65
same time period, and over Czechia 50 12
BELGIUM
GERMANY Estonia 210 100
1.1 million pending
Finland 1,820 1,242
applications at the end of LUX. CZECHIA UKRAINE
France 5,490 3,157
2016. Amendments to the SLOVAKIA Germany 7,250 3,510
Schengen Border Code, LIECH.
Hungary† 0 0
proposed in response to AUSTRIA
FRANCE SWITZ.
HUNGARY Ireland 596 380
terrorist threats, aim to Latvia 424 270
SLO.
strengthen external borders CROATIA ROMANIA Lichtenstein RUSSIA 10 10
by requiring systematic Bay of
Biscay Ad BOS. & SERBIA Lithuania 600 237
database checks at entry ria HERZ. Luxembourg 270 277
and exit. I T A L Y tic Black Malta
Sea 104 111
MONT. KOS. BULGARIA
SPA I N Se Netherlands 1,575 1,637
a MACE. Norway 1,135 902
PORT. ALB. Poland 100 ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN
0
Over 1,500 migrants and asylum Tyrrhenian Portugal 1,618 1,179
seekers have arrived to Spain so far in TURKEY
2017 via the western Mediterranean, Sea GREECE Romania
†
1,822
IRAN
568
a 150% increase from the same time Slovakia 40 16
period in 2016. Slovenia 180 165
Spain 900 877
†
MALTA Sweden SYRIA 50 39
ALGERIA CYPRUS Switzerland 1,280 779
Mediterranean Sea LEB.
Total 26,790 16,073
Schengen country TUNISIA IR AQ
IRAQ
Temporary Schengen border controls (recommended by Resettlement Efforts since July 2015
European commission through May 2017, excluding France whose ISRAEL
Since agreeing to resettle 22,500 displaced
MOROCCO
temporary reintroductions are proposed through July 2017) persons JORDAN
in need of international protection over a
LIBYA EGYPT two year period, European counties have resettled
Enhanced border controls
(non-Schengen; varies by country) *Nationalities currently Hungary and Slovakia have filed legal actions against
† KUWAIT
over 14,400 persons, primarily Syrian refugees
eligible for relocation: Burundi, mandatory relocation quotas. Sweden’s relocation hosted bySAUDI
Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. These
Border fences obligations have been suspended until June 2017 due to ARABIA
(built or under construction; may not span entire border) Eritrea, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, include 4,603 Syrians resettled from Turkey
Syria, and Yemen. its exceptional number of asylum seekers per capita. pursuant to the EU-Turkey statement.
Sources: European Commission, press reporting, UNHCR
BAHRAIN
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H U M A N I TA R I A N I N F O R M AT I O N U N I T
Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Frontline States
Balkans AUSTRIA Italy
As of March 2017, over 10,000 About 1900 migrants and asylum seekers arrived weekly to Italy in the first
HU NGA RY few months of 2017. A new Italian law calls for a series of measures, aligned
SWITZ. migrants and asylum-seekers MOLDOVA
with UNICEF recommendations, to protect refugee and migrant children in
were stranded in Balkan states, SLOVENIA
around 80% in Serbia. Irregular Italy where nearly 2,000 unaccompanied and separated children arrived in
entry continues at a
ROM A N I A UKRAINE early 2017 in addition to almost 26,000 in 2016.
dramatically decreased pace CROATIA Sea arrivals
relative to early 2016, as do Jan. - Mar. 2017: 24,280 Jan. - Mar. 2016: 18,777
allegations of collective BOSNIA & Bangladesh 2,739 Côte d’Ivoire 1,541
expulsions and forced HERZEGOVINA SERBIA
The Gambia
2,187 Guinea 1,594
pushbacks. New Hungarian law A
requires all irregular entries, dr Côte d’Ivoire Others Senegal 1,661 Others
including asylum-seekers, be ia MONT. BU LGA R I A 2,453 10,787 8,296
ti Black The Gambia
removed and/or detained in c KOSOVO
Se Sea Nigeria 2,270
transit zones. a 3,014 Nigeria 3,415
ITALY ALBANIA MACEDONIA Guinea 3,100
Tyr

Men Women Children

rhe

Italy shelters 1,400 migrants Jan. - Mar.

*Data only
nia

and asylum seekers at hotspots demographics 2016 74% 10% 16%

available for
n

and accommodates over 2017* 76% 9% 15% Jan. - Feb.

Sea

175,000 in reception and Aegean

emergency facilities Lesvos
Sea Greece
TURKEY About 280 migrants and asylum seekers arrived weekly to Greece in the first
Jan. - Mar. 2017:
G R E E C E few months of 2017. Greece hosts an estimated 40-60,000 migrants and
Chios
595 fatalities Athens asylum seekers, including 2,000 unaccompanied minors, and is working
Sicily Samos with partners to improve accommodation conditions.
Leros
Sea arrivals Jan. - Mar. 2016:
Kos Iran 4,460 151,452
Jan. - Mar. 2017: 4,008 Others 4,675
MALTA
Sousse
Central Mediterranean
Pakistan
Lampedusa Jan. - Mar. 2016: Crete 5,662
TUNISIA 355 Eastern
Mediterranean Afghanistan D.R.C.†
Jan. - Mar. 2017: 184 140 Iraq
13 fatalities 23,613 Syria
Medit Algeria Syria
err Jan. - Mar. 2016: 237 74,120
Zuwarah Tripoli an 366 1,517
ea Iraq 376
Az Zawiyah Tajura’ Misratah n Others
LIBYA LIBYA Sea 2,466 Afghanistan
38,922
Centers for migrants and asylum seekers Population size Routes to Italy Alexandria
at centers
Hotspot Routes to Greece
Population 300 or fewer Men Women Children
Reception center unknown Figures for occupancy (as of Mar. Jan. - Mar.
Unofficial site
301 - 1,000 2017) are not published for all EGY P T demographics 2016 40% 22% 38%
†
Data only
available for
1,001 - 4,544 sites, including Italian hotspots 2017 27% 22% 51% Feb. - Mar.

Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative Sources: European Commission, Government of Italy, IOM, UNHCR, press reporting April 20, 2017 - U1568 STATE (HIU)