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Situational Update: Migratory Influx to Southern Italy

2011-02-15

Warsaw, February 15—According to official data provided by Italian authorities, between January 1 and February 13, 2011, a total of 5526 migrants were recorded landing in the Pelagic Island, in a total of 116 incidents.  This compares to 7,200 for the whole of 2008, the peak year for arrivals of irregular migrants in these islands to date, when Tunisians were the most commonly represented nationality, accounting for 23% of arrivals. Of the official 2011 figures, by far the biggest influx was noted in Lampedusa, where 5031 migrants were recorded between January 1 and February 13, in 80 arrivals.

Irregular migration to the Italian island of Lampedusa is part of the Central Mediterranean route that also includes detections for border crossing from other Pelagic Islands, like Pantellaria, but also Sardinia, as well as detections reported from Malta.

The table below gives a summary of detections in 2011 until February 13.

 

Incid-ents

Mig-rants

Landed

Male

Female

Minors

Accom-panied minors

Unacc-ompanied minors

Lampedusa and Linosa

80

5031

4944

18

69

0

69

Agrigento coast

3

20

20

0

0

0

0

Other places in Sicily

21

211

210

0

1

0

1

Apulia

3

57

43

2

12

6

6

Calabria

8

192

152

14

26

12

14

Sardinia

1

15

15

0

0

0

0

Total

116

5526

5384

34

108

18

90