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Artists Min-Hyung Choi and Valentin Guiod have linked the physical and mental endurance of refugees and migrants with Olympic athletes. They worked with French organisation La Cimade – who support refugees and migrants – to produce three short films. And the first highlights the danger of swimming to ‘safety’. But these films are also a poignant reminder that the refugee crisis is far from over.
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Figures from the UN show that, since 2014, over 1.7m refugees and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe by sea (Mediterranean). But it also estimates that over 15,400 people are dead or missing.
The International Organisation for Migration (IMO) Missing Migrants Project “tracks incidents involving migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, who have died or gone missing in the process of migration”. According to the IMO:
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