The data presented here are the product of exhaustive monitoring carried out by Ca-minando Fronteras 365 days a year. Working with migrant communities, rescue services, family networks and human rights defenders on the ground, we collect, confirm and systematise the necessary data.
Download the full report here: Monitoring ‘Right To Life – 2021’
Descarga el informe completo aquí: Informe del Monitoreo DALV – 2021 (Spanish version)
4,404 people died in 2021 as they attempted to migrate to the Spanish State, making it the worst year on record. The aim of our monitoring work is to provide information to support migrant communities and victims’ families in their quest to find the truth of what is happening at the western Euro-African border. Our data represent a necessary step on the path to reparation for the dead and missing, rendering them more visible. It is also intended for use in advocacy to lobby for policies of justice and non-repetition at the border.
By systematising the information on border victims that we have been compiling since 2016, we are able to obtain a diachronic overview of the dynamics of the necropolitics applied in border regions.
Collecting data on the deaths of people on the move is a complex process as they travel via irregular channels where their rights are not recognised, enabling states to deny their very existence. On the western Euro-African border, the vast majority of deaths occur at sea and most of the bodies are lost without a trace. Behind these numbers is a desire to ensure respect for the victims’ memory in response to the ignominy of their assailants.
Despite the difficulties involved in documenting the numbers of dead and missing people on migration routes to Spain, the meticulous work of our Human Rights Observatory has allowed us to exhaustively verify the figures that are presented in this report. All data are from primary sources and are processed in our databases. We then analyse the data and return the results to migrant communities, victims’ families and wider society so that they can be used to develop actions to defend life against necropolitics.
Despite the difficulties involved in documenting the numbers of dead and missing people on migration routes to Spain, the meticulous work of our Human Rights Observatory has allowed us to exhaustively verify the figures that are presented in this report. All data are from primary sources and are processed in our databases. We then analyse the data and return the results to migrant communities, victims’ families and wider society so that they can be used to develop actions to defend life against necropolitics.
