Author: Jessica Hagen-Zanker

Jessica Hagen-Zanker is a Senior Research Fellow at the ODI (The Overseas Development Institute).

Record deaths at sea: will ‘regional disembarkation’ help save lives?

Posted by and & filed under Humanitarianism, Migration

Never has it been more dangerous for people in search of protection to make the crossing to Europe. The estimated death rate on boat migration journeys across the Mediterranean has risen from 4 per 1000 in 2015 to 24 per 1000 in the first four months of 2018, according to available data. While the death… Read more »