2023 is one of the deadliest years for immigrants

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “D-Site” publication, never before recorded as many deaths on migration routes around the world as last year. Of course, one can only guess how many people actually lost their lives while fleeing and migrating.

Last year, since data collection began in In 2014, more refugees died on migration routes than ever before. In total, the IOM’s “Missing Migrants Project” recorded 8,565 migrant deaths on these routes in 2023, 20 percent more than a year earlier. In total, the project has recorded more than 63,700 deaths since its launch, almost half of them in the Mediterranean Sea.

Sea Mediterranean remains the most dangerous route for migrants

According to this data, the most dangerous migration route in 2023, the Mediterranean Sea remains with at least 3129 deaths. More deaths occurred there between 2014 and 2017. In 2024, IOM has recorded 254 deaths in the Mediterranean Sea.

Thus, the Mediterranean Sea is under the shadow of European countries’ anti-immigration policies, more than ever. Another has become deadly for immigrants and asylum seekers.

Many experts believe that the strict policies of the European Union, regardless of the number of victims of asylum seekers, cause more deaths. >

However, immigration remains an unresolved crisis in the European Union, and the European Union continues to use the pressure lever to solve this crisis and reduce the victims of asylum seekers instead of creating legal ways for immigrants to enter. It increases the oppressed class and puts stricter policies towards them on the agenda. At the end of last year, they agreed on fundamental reforms in the asylum system and the tightening of strictures against refugees.

Based on this agreement, in the future there should be uniform border procedures at foreign borders. The European Union exists. In particular, there are plans to get much tougher on people from countries that are considered relatively safe. Accordingly, until a decision is made on the asylum request, people should be able to be accommodated in detention camps under prison-like conditions.

According to this plan, the distribution of asylum seekers which seek support among EU countries will be reorganized using a “solidarity mechanism”. Countries that do not want to accept refugees must offer other support, for example in the form of cash payments. Based on this, rejected asylum seekers should also be easily deported to safe third countries in the future.

According to the new report of the International Organization for Migration, also regionally, the record of 1,866 deaths of refugees in Africa and 2,138 in Asia was recorded. has been It also proved that the routes across the African Sahara and the sea route to the Canary Islands were particularly dangerous. Hundreds of Afghan and Rohingya refugees also died in Asia.

IOM emphasized that the actual figures are estimated to be significantly higher. This international body registers only approved cases. For example, if a human-trafficking boat leaves the coast at night and is nowhere to be seen, the death toll remains unknown. It is also difficult to record deaths in the dangerous jungle corridor between Colombia and Panama, through which many migrants from South America pass. According to this report, in general, half of the deaths can be attributed to drowning, 9% to traffic accidents and 7% to violence.

Oguchi Daniels, Deputy Director General of IOM, said that each of these cases is a tragedy that weighs on the shoulders of the victims’ families for decades. He said: “We need to do more to enable safe migration so that in 10 years people don’t have to risk their lives in search of a better life.

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