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Aggregating and Visualizing Migrant Deaths at the US Border – 2022 Record Deaths

12 points| kristintynski | 3 years ago |lawsuit.org

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[+] samueldawit1343|3 years ago|reply
Migrant death data is relatively hard to pin down, and is spread across a number of different datasets. Some government, some by NGOs. To better understand the scope of the tragedy, I put together a few map visualizations based on data aggregated from The Missing Migrants Project and combined it with data from the Arizona OpenGIS initiative for Deceased Migrants. While this isn't fully comprehensive, it does give a visual understanding of the scope of this tragedy over the last few years. I was particularly shocked by the prevalence of Drowning while crossing the Rio Grande. Absolutely horrible.

If anyone knows of additional reputable datasets for migrant deaths, I'd love to improve the thoroughness of these visualizations. It's frustrating this data isn't as transparent or centralized as it should be.

[+] kristintynski|3 years ago|reply
Migrant death data is relatively hard to pin down, and is spread across a number of different datasets. Some government, some by NGOs. To better understand the scope of the tragedy, I put together a few map visualizations based on data aggregated from The Missing Migrants Project and combined it with data from the Arizona OpenGIS initiative for Deceased Migrants.

While this isn't fully comprehensive, it does give a visual understanding of the scope of this tragedy over the last few years. I was particularly shocked by the prevalence of Drowning while crossing the Rio Grande. Absolutely horrible.

If anyone knows of additional reputable datasets for migrant deaths, I'd love to improve the thoroughness of these visualizations. It's frustrating this data isn't as transparent or centralized as it should be.

[+] keneda7|3 years ago|reply
Are these deaths of just migrants illegally enter the country or do they represent all migrants regardless of whether they use a port of entry or not?
[+] Marshall21|3 years ago|reply
It is surprising how many people take risks when migrating