ROTTE · Migration Atlas is a personal, independent project by Erixhens Muka, who writes its code, processes its data and writes its texts, in Italian and in English.
Why it exists
Migration is endlessly discussed and almost always without numbers — or with numbers torn from their context. Yet the official data exists, is public and is good: Frontex publishes irregular crossings every month, Eurostat records asylum applications, regular migration and new citizenships. It is just hard to read: scattered across different databases, full of codes and technical definitions. ROTTE exists to close that distance: to take the official statistics as they are and make them legible to anyone, without simplifying them into betrayal.
Editorial principles
Data first, thesis second. The atlas does not start from a position on migration and look for confirmation: it shows the full series, including when they contradict the narrative of the moment — in either direction.
The caveat sits next to the number. Every measure has limits (detections are not people, first-time applications are not all applications) and those limits are written where the number appears, not in a footnote.
The figures are people. The language stays sober, and the people inside the data are reduced neither to a threat nor to a symbol.
Verifiable down to the source. Every chart states its source table, and the methodology documents the whole path from raw data to page.
Independence and funding
ROTTE receives no funding from parties, institutions, NGOs or companies, and has no editorial obligations of any kind. The site is free; it may carry clearly labelled advertising, which has no influence on content or data. Visit statistics are collected with a cookieless tool that does not profile visitors (details in the privacy policy).
How it is built
The site is static and deliberately spare: charts use the open-source Apache ECharts library, fonts and libraries are served from our own server, with no third-party tracking in the page load. Data is downloaded from Frontex's and Eurostat's public APIs and refreshed with each release; right now the series run through February 2026.
Contact
For reports, corrections, requests to reuse charts, or any question: erixhens.muka1@protonmail.com. Error reports are the most welcome emails of all.