danielegrasso
Data-Driven Journalist
November 2019
The Migrants' Files
- news coverage
- data Journalism
- pan-European approach
- collaboration
Not just an investigation: a methodology
The (initial) team
@nicolaskb (Journalism ++)
October 3 2013 - Lampedusa
I want [the Prime Minister] Letta to come down here and count the bodies with me
Data? What data?
Open Source Intelligence
Fortress Europe
Gabriele Del Grande, journalist
United Against Racism
Puls
University of Helkinsi
Creating our database
- Structure
- Organize
- Deduplicate
- Geocode
In the meantime...
...fill some FOIAs.
"Very low numbers of illegal migrants arriving to the Canary Island and more than a thousand of human lives saved- that is the outcome of Frontex coordinated operation Hera III"
Frontex Executive Director, Mr Ilkka Laitinen
- Lack of data -> database
- 23.000 verified deaths ('00-'14)
- Walls = more dangerous routes
And now?
Let's count the money -or a part of it
- The migrants' money (under)estimation
- The migrants' money (under)estimation
- The Europeans' money (under)estimation
- Financial Transparency System
- FOIAs to EU and governments
- Investigation
- The Europeans' money (under)estimation
- The Europeans' money (under)estimation
- Migrants and refugees have paid 16 billion euro to travel to Europe
- The policy of forced repatriations has costed at least 11.3 billion euros to European taxpayers
- Border control to prevent migrants' arrivals has costed 1.6 billion euros to European taxpayers
- Finmeccanica, Airbus, Thales and Indra, that co-created the European border defence framework, are the biggest contractor for R + D projects about migration
Full methodology of The Migrants Files' - The Money Trails can be found at
https://github.com/jplusplus/themigrantsfiles.com/wiki/TMF-Money-Trails:-Methodology
Y tú, ¿qué harías si no tienes datos?
TMF 1 & 2 (english)
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