UN/BIASED - Map 4

Shoals of migrants (dystopia)

Between 2011 and 2015, more than half a million Portuguese people (5% of the population) left the country. Struggling to make ends meet, migrants eventually leave Portugal, draining the country of its natural resources, in what is also known as brain drain. Many of these migrants are women. Each trace represents 170 women that departed between 2011 and 2015, and that at this rate, will leave between 2016 and 2020. The traces move and react in a way that mimics the motions of shoals of fish around Portugal’s outline, forming a country outside a country. The yellow traces are women who ultimately left the country.

Data: Statistics Portugal (2016)