Each tapestry fragment represents one migrant from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras, with data from a WFP survey in 2021. The colors represent the migrant's primary reasons for migrating: economic, quality of life, security, reunification, and climate change. The combined squares create a tapestry of migration motivations.
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Visualization of migrant motivations
Motivation for Migrating
90%
Economic
of
surveyed households
Reason for Migrating
Search for a better job, salary or working conditions, lack of money to buy food, lack of money to cover basic needs
Origin Country
El Salvador
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The cost of migration through different routes
ONE MIGRANT
From El Salvador Spent
$8,500
Irregular channel on one's own or with a caravan
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Name (Age) migrated from Countrydue to several reasons.
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Name spent $Cost (USD) to migrate through a Channel.
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About the Data
In 2021, the World Food Program interviewed 4,998 households in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador and asked them questions related to food security but also used the opportunity to ask whether someone from their household migrated and related questions about the motivations, costs, economic impact of migration.
In 2022, the World Food Program provided internet to migrants making the passage starting in Columbia’s Dairen Jungle and making their way through the Central American on their way to Mexico and the United States. In order to receive internet, the migrants were asked questions about their home country, their path to Columbia, their preparations, cost and the risks they had to take to arrive on the path. This rare data set include 2,109 migrants from 43 countries all over the world.
