CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY - CASE STUDY: MEDITERRANEAN DEADLY MIGRANT ROUTES.

1. THE MEDITERRANEAN’s
DEADLY MIGRANT ROUTES
EXAM CASE STUDY
AS GEOGRAPHY – MIGRATION

2. SYLLABUS
This case study follows
precisely the Cambridge
AS 2019 syllabus requests
for one of the
“Migration” case studies.
Candidates must study
one international
migration stream:
its causes, character,
scale, pattern and
impacts on source areas
and receiving and
destination areas.

3. MIGRATION STATS
Figures reported in September 2015 from
the International Organisation for
Migration (IOM) showed that more than
3.000 migrants were believed to have died
crossing Mediterranean Sea, compared
with 96 for the same period in 2014.
As many as 800 migrants were feared
drowned after one incident when their
boat capsized in Libyan water south of the
Italian island of Lampedusa.
The IOM estimated that as many as 30.000
migrants could die in 2015 were this rate
to continue.
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5. MIGRATION STATS cont.
The Mediterranean crossing is by far the most dangerous. According to the
IOM, taking all international migrant crossings up to mid-April 2015 into
account nearly 8 out of 10 deaths had taken place in the Mediterranean.
The central migration route from North Africa to Italy and Malta is the
deadliest.
In 2014 a total of 3279 migrants were killed on the journey across the sea
to Europe.
The majority perished on the Central Mediterranean route.
921 out of 954 deaths by mid-April 2015 has been on route towards Italy.

7. MIGRATION STATS cont.
The vast majority of the migrants who die on this Central Mediterranean
crossing began their journey in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2015 the second highest number of migrants died in the Horn of Africa
where less than 1 in 10 deaths occurred.
In 2014 the African nations with the most migrants reaching Italy were
Eritrea, Mali and Nigeria.