—
-
A Global Database on Migrant Boat Losses at Sea, 1990 to 2015
The A Global Database on Migrant Boat Losses at Sea contains information on migrant boat losses worldwide between 1990 and 2015. To construct this database, we employed a mixed methodology designed to locate, record and analyse boat losses to fill gaps we identified in the border externalisation literature. This involved collecting data from media aggregators and additional…
-
SAFE THIRD COUNTRY AGREEMENT DATABASE
The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) Database contains information on the presence, status and some outcomes of refugee claimants who entered Canada and were subject to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States of America at the Canada-US border from 2017 to 2024. Although these data were largely publicly-available, they were neither centralised, cleaned nor…
-
NAURU FILES
The Nauru files contain the largest set of documents published from inside Australia’s immigration detention system. Leaked to The Guardian in 2016, they include nearly 2,000 incident reports from the Nauru detention centre, which were written by guards, caseworkers and teachers on the remote Pacific Island. Summary Examples of events include assaults, injuries, abuse and…