The Journey of Resettled Refugees

This visualisation was created for a Viz for Social Good project, in cooperation with Kiron Education. It illustrates the flow of refugees resettled by the UNHCR: where they come from, where they seek asylum and where they end up finding a new home.

The Journey of Resettled Refugees

Process

While this final version looks clean and polished, it did take us several days to get it right. We had the idea for the layout early on but struggled with the choice of colour. We needed two colours, one for each step in the Sankey diagram. We tried dozens of variations, many of which looked terrible. We ended up realising that analogous colours -- which do not scream for attention -- would work best. Two colours that were different enough to be seen as separate but similar enough to create a harmonious ensemble. After about two dozen colour iterations, we was happy with the final result you can explore below.