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International Migrant Stocks, Mid-Year 2020

International migrant stocks

International migrant stocks are estimates of "the total number of international migrants present in a given country at a particular point in time" (UN SD, 2017: 9). United Nations (UN) data on these sto...
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IOM data overview

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports on original data from a number of sources in its own programmes and operations. Som...
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Diasporas

Diasporas, sometimes referred to as expatriates or transnational communities, play an important role in leveraging migration’s benefits for development. Measuring issues relating to diaspora groups is challenging,...
Labour migration

Labour migration

According to the latest available estimates, there were  169 million international migrant workers globally in 2019 and they constituted 4.9 per cent of the global labour force (...

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SDG goals

The SDGs: measuring whether migrants are being left behind

Intra-regional migration in South America

5 salient facts about intra-regional migration in South America

Intra-regional migration in South America is a consolidated and long-standing South-South migration system that has undergone different phases. Although the search for better socioeconomic opportunities is recogni...
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Global refugee resettlement: What do the statistics tell us?

Migrant workers

Seasonal migration and COVID-19: undercounted, undervalued and underprotected

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the reliance of many economies and public services on migrant labour. Foreign-born doctors, nurses and other health-care personnel make vital contributions to health systems, inc...

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Migration data in Oceania

Oceania is comprised of island nations with few shared land borders spread across the Pacific Ocean. Traditionally, the ocean was seen to connect people through a ‘sea of islands’ (Hau’ofa et al., 1993), resulting...

Migration data in Western Asia

Mobility in Western Asia1 has deep historical roots, and it has also witnessed a lot of voluntary and forced migratory movements in the past century. The economic and political diversity in the sub-region have led...

Migration data in South-eastern Asia

South-eastern Asia has, since historic times, been defined by large-scale population movements. Stretching over 11 countries – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia...

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