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This dashboard is based on a large ensemble of future global projections of six mobility-related climate hazards: heat...

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Climate change and human mobility

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Remittances: How reliable are the data?

The paper briefly discusses issues related to estimations of aggregate volumes of remittances, bilateral remittances and remittance transfer costs. The authors argue that methodologies commonly used introduce a nu...
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Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual

The Manual provides and explains concepts, definitions, classifications, and conventions for balance of payments and international investment position statistics; it also presents a brief introduction to the vario...

Key Figures: Mobility within and from Ukraine, 2020-2023

1-pager from the Global Data Institute (GDI) summarizing key migration and displacement figures in the context of mobility within and from Ukraine (2020-2023), updated with data available as of 22 February 2023. I...
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Women & Girls on the Move: A Snapshot of Available Evidence

Gender is a significant factor shaping every aspect of human mobility – from the decision to migrate, transiting across borders, to settling in the country of destination, or choosing to return home. Access to ser...

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Improving data on migration in Africa: Expert voices

For 17 per cent of countries in Africa, the most recent data available from censuses referred to years prior to 2005. Only four in ten countries in Africa can provide data on the age of international migrants. ...

Zipline or trap? How the gig economy may affect immigrant integration

Globalisation, technological advances, and shifting norms and values are reshaping the way we work. One of the biggest trends in the past decade has been the rise of the “gig” or “platform” economy: casual, task-b...
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In search of a frame: What to expect when you’re sampling immigrants

  What is known about immigrants’ integration into European society? To answer this question, governments need reliable and timely data, but most importantly, a representative immigrant sample.   ...
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Current migration dynamics from the Horn of Africa to the Arab Peninsula: 3 ways data can support action

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TraceTogether: Flattening the curve of COVID-19 using mobile phone devices

The first fully functional app worldwide to inform users about potential COVID-19 infections due to social contact with an infected party
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Google’s support for public health policy: The COVID-19 community mobility reports

Google’s COVID-19 community mobility reports provide detailed insights into human mobility on the national and local level based on daily analyses of users’ location history

Mapping the population distribution at the city level based on Twitter collected data

This project maps residents and tourists in cities around the world based on Twitter data.
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AI-enabled identification management of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF)

Pioneering digital system of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to process asylum procedures

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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Estimates of unauthorized immigrants in the US: What lessons for other countries?

Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer at the Pew Research Center, talks to GMDAC about the estimates of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this video ar...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration Data in West Africa: How could they be improved?

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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Recruitment costs of migrant workers: How and why should we monitor them?

Philip Martin, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, is talking to GMDAC about recruitment costs of migrant workers. Disclaimer: The opinions expr...
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