Together with @msdionis.bsky.social, I've contributed a shorter version of our piece "Conflicting realities: Mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route" civilmrcc.eu/forced-to-di...

New article by IMIS and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social and Marta Sánchez Dionis. #Atlantic #borders #borderdeaths #migration #migrationresearch #migrationroutes 👇

[New Blog 🖋️] Dr. @mauricestierl.bsky.social and Marta Sánchez Dionis show how Atlantic route deaths data varies, and how this uncertainty impacts the responsibilities of researchers, policymakers, and rescue actors: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

... as @msdionis.bsky.social and I argue in our article that was also published yesterday by @bordercrim.bsky.social. See: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Only yesterday, this (otherwise insightful) Guardian article reported on "10,457 officially recorded deaths on the route", referring to the Atlantic route to the Canaries. There needs to be much more care with contested data on migrant deaths... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Maybe you've seen the truly shocking figures for migrant deaths in the Atlantic Ocean, reaching nearly 10,000 for 2024. How should we deal with such numbers, not least when they differ radically to other ac/counts? With Marta Sanchez Dionis in Border Criminologies. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...