This report contains an analysis of the responses provided by migrants and refugees travelling along the Central and the Eastern Mediterranean routes and interviewed under IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) activities in 2017. Male and female migrants are systematically compared.
The report analyses comparatively the profile and responses of male and female migrants interviewed on both routes in attempt to mark the similarities and differences in their journey experiences. Section 1 provides an overview of the content of the survey, with a focus on the set of questions on individual and witnessed experiences of human trafficking and other exploitative practices. Section 2 presents the analysis on interviewees` responses to the human trafficking and other exploitative practices’ indicators on the Central and the Eastern Mediterranean route. Section 3 presents some baseline information on the two routes to contextualize the reported experiences of human trafficking and other exploitative practices. The last section contains more detailed information on methodology and the data collection process.