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The Graphic Truth: By land or by sea — migrants head for Spain

November 14, 2021
Gabrielle Debinski
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Gabriella Turrisi
The Graphic Truth: By land or by sea — migrants head for Spain
Gabriella Turrisi

Last week, some 400 migrants arrived on Spain's Canary Islands in a 24-hour period after making the perilous journey by boat from Africa. Up until October, migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands had surged 44 percent compared to the same period last year. While COVID-related economic crises have surely contributed to the uptick in desperate people trying to start over in the EU, this wave of migration — mainly from Morocco and Algeria — predates the pandemic, and even the 2015 refugee crisis. We take a look at the number of people who have sought refuge in peninsular Spain and the Canary Islands since 2015.

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