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Irregular migration
Reliable statistics on stocks or flows of irregular migrants, the well-being of migrants in irregular situations, or the extent to which they have access to services such as health an...
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Under international law, migrants have human rights by virtue of their humanity. International customary law and international human rights instruments are of universal application and therefore set States duties ...
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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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GCM Development process
On 19 September 2016, Heads of State and Government from the 193 UN Member States came together at the UN General Assembly to discuss topics related to migration and refugees at the global level. The adoption of t...
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Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
This publication aims to recapitulate major research findings carried out in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Tri...
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Migration data on the Central Mediterranean Route: What do we know?
GMDAC briefing series: Towards safer migration in Africa: Migration data in Northern and Western Africa While migration topics in Northern and Western Africa are in the political spotlight, relevant data on mig...
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Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative
The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migrat...
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Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean
Discussions around migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean are often riddled with misconceptions and partial representations of a complex reality. A growing body of evidence produced just o...
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Do awareness-raising campaigns on the risks of irregular migration support safer migration decisions? IOM research provides new evidence.
Forthcoming impact evaluation studies provide evidence on the potential effects of awareness-raising campaigns to enhance safer decision-making of potential migrants. Migrants as Messengers community gather...
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Latin America’s response to Venezuelan emigration
Venezuelans are emigrating in record numbers, prompting Latin American countries to respond to the large scale of arrivals. Vanina Modolo and Ezequiel Texido of the IOM Regional Office for South America&...
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10 of the coolest visualizations of migration data
The increasingly complex landscape of international migration data requires visual tools that explain migration issues and trends in an easy-to-understand way. Jasper Tjaden, Data and Survey Officer...
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Estimates of unauthorized immigrants in the United States: What lessons for other countries?
This blog post is based on the edited transcript from Jeffrey Passel's GMDAC video interview. Jeffrey Passel, Senior Demographer at the Pew Research Center, explains how the Center makes estimates of unauthor...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data on African migration to Europe
Rainer Münz, Special Adviser on Migration and Demography at the European Commission, shares his view on data and migration between Africa and Europe.
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Can we measure irregular migration?
Frank Düvell, Senior Researcher & Associate Professor at the Centre on Migraiton, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, explains to GMDAC whether we can measure irregular migration. ...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Irregular migrants in vulnerable situations and access to basic services
Nando Sigona, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, talks to us about the extent to which irregular migrants in vulnerable situations ...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Irregular migrants and access to basic services
Michelle Levoy, Director of the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), talks to us about undocumented migrants and their access to basic social services.
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Do awareness-raising campaigns on the risks of irregular migration support safer migration decisions? IOM research provides new evidence.
Eduardo Acostamadiedo and Oumarou Hebie | 17 Jan 2023
Types of migration
Millionaire migration: How much would you pay for a passport?
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 1 Jul 2021
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Migrant Stocks vs. Migrant Flows
Melissa Siegel | 22 Apr 2021
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Estimating irregular migration in the Russian Federation
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 18 Feb 2021
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