The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) publishes monthly counts of new asylum seekers for each origin-destination country pair based on information collected by the relevant agencies in the destination countries. We know, for example, how many Syrian refugees arrived in Switzerland in September 2015.
Problems:
The dataset only contains a part of the story. For example, the two million Syrian refugees in Turkey are not counted as asylum seekers, but registered refugees. While the UNHCR publishes some data about registered refugees, it is not as comprehensive as with asylum seekers.
Implementation:
For the implementation of the Project the CartoDB interface and the javascript libraries D3.js, C3.js, Leaflet.js and Cartodb.js are used.
Authors
This webpage was created during the course GEO 878 Geographic Information Visualization (GeoVis) in the spring semester 2016 at the University of Zurich by David Hanimann, Jorim Urner and Luke Albright.