Europe

The European picture and the corridors that feed it

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Corridors and stopping points13 routes, 45 named placesi
Corridors are schematic, not tracked movements. Route lines and stopping points are carried over from the Solar context dataset, which attributes them collectively to UNODC, EMCDDA, the National Crime Agency, IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix and Frontex. Individual stopping points carry no separate citation in that dataset and the narrative text was written by hand, so treat every place description as indicative rather than sourced. Volumes are the dataset's own annual estimates and are not the Home Office series used elsewhere on this page. Four corridors in the source set — Darién Gap, Central America to the United States, Rohingya Bay of Bengal, and South Asia to the Gulf — are left out because they do not feed the European system.
Frontex detections by routei
Frontex annual briefs · detections not persons · 2024 Western Med and Other are estimated
EU27 immigration enforcementi
Eurostat migr_eipre / eirfs / eiord / eirtn, pulled from the dissemination API
Europe-wide arrivals and deathsIOM, 2016–2026i
IOM DTM / Missing Migrants · Europe migration routes, excludes the English Channel
Mediterranean arrivalsUNHCR, 2015–2025i
UNHCR Mediterranean Situation · Italy/Malta sea arrivals plus Greece and Spain
Schengen controls in force20 Aug 2026i
StateUntilReason
EU migration deals registeri
    Eurodac and stock baselinesi
      Belarus instrumentalisationi
        Türkiye posturei
          Western Balkans visa alignmenti