Number irregular arrivals. European Union It rose 64% year-on-year in 2022, reaching its highest level since 2016, according to the latest balance sheet presented this Friday. european border agency (Pretext). Total according to preliminary calculations 330,000 irregular logins. “After a decline to a minimum in 2020 due to the pandemic, second year in a row with a strong increase in the number of irregular entries”, underlines the Warsaw-based agency.
The analysis once again confirms that western balkans route It became the main way of entry into European territory. Nearly half of those who tried to enter through irregular routes, about 145,600 people, came this way. The data represents a 136% increase over the 2021 figures, the highest recorded on this route since 2015. The majority of those who use this route to reach the EU, Syria, Afghanistan and TurkeyMoreover Tunisia, India and Burundi.
Another widely used method is middle mediterranean About 102,500 people came in 2022, 51% more than in 2021. Egypt, Tunisia and Bangladesh. This is also the highest number of arrivals recorded on this route since 2017. East Mediterranean it is also still a widely used route to reach the European continent. According to Frontex, 42,800 irregular entries were detected last year, primarily Syrians, Afghans and Nigerians; although this figure has doubled from the previous year, it is half of what was recorded in 2019.
On the contrary, west mediterranean roadto the Iberian Peninsula, Ceuta and Melilla, and atlantic routean important route to the Canary Islands. recoil. As far as the Mediterranean route is concerned, Frontex confirms that border authorities identified one-fifth of those registered in 2021, with 80% coming from Northwest African countries such as Algeria, Morocco and Syria. In the case of the Atlantic route, arrivals dropped by 31% and 15,460 irregular arrivals were detected. Two-thirds came from Morocco and various sub-Saharan countries such as Senegal, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
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Frontex also collects migration attempts. english channelIn total, 71,000 people from 50 different nationalities tried to enter the UK illegally. According to the report, most of them came from countries in the Middle East such as Afghanistan and Iraq, Albania and the Horn of Africa.
The European agency conducted around 20 operations at the EU’s external borders last year and deployed an average of 2,000 agents. At the global level, the main source of irregular entry was Syria, which doubled the number, followed by Afghanistan and Tunisia. Three made up 47% of arrivals. Additionally, the majority of people trying to enter through irregular routes are still men, while women represent less than one in ten detections. The proportion of minors identified dropped slightly to around 9%.