RT Journal Article
T1 Deaths at the borders database: evidence of deceased migrants’ bodies found along the southern external borders of the European Union
A1 Last, Tamara
A1 Mirto, Giorgia
A1 Ulusoy, Orçun
A1 Urquijo, Ignacio
A1 Harte, Joke
A1 Bami, Nefeli
A1 Macias Delgado, Flor
A1 Tapella, Amélie
A1 Michalaki, Alexandra
A1 Michalitsi, Eirini
A1 Latsoudi, Efi
A1 Naya Tselepi, 
A1 Marios Chatziprokopiou, 
A1 Thomas Spijkerboer, 
A1 Pérez Pérez, Marta
AB Irregular migrants and asylum seekers have died and continue to die attempting to cross the external borders of the EU without authorisation, seeking to enter the territories of its Member States. Yet, remarkably little is known about these ‘border deaths’. In 2015, the Human Costs of Border Control project published the Deaths at the Borders Database for the Southern EU, an open-source ‘evidence base’ of individualised information about people who have died border deaths between 1990 and 2013, sourced from the death management systems of Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta and Greece. It is the first database on border deaths in the EU to be based on official sources as opposed to the news media. The project involved searching 563 state-run death registry archives and deductively selecting the death certificates of persons who died border deaths. This paper describes, in detail, the making of the Deaths at the Borders Database: from the systematic, multi-sited, quantitative data collection and qualitative case studies, to the construction and final results of the Database itself.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116142
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116142
LA eng
NO Last, T., Mirto, G., Ulusoy, O., Urquijo, I., Harte, J., Bami, N., … Spijkerboer, T. (2017). Deaths at the borders database: evidence of deceased migrants’ bodies found along the southern external borders of the European Union. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(5), 693–712. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1276825
NO Vici Scheme, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025