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Migrant deaths and disappearances
Since 2014, more than 4,000 fatalities have been recorded annually on migratory routes worldwide. 2023 marked the deadliest year with more than 8,000 deaths recorded, marking a decade of documenting migrant deaths...
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Migration and data protection
Data protection in the migration context has become increasingly relevant given the growing need for more reliable statistics, comprehensive and timely data, and the emergence of new technologies. The incidences o...
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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 policies and governance
The growing interest in comparative analyses of migration has led to a variety of attempts to assess and compare countries’ migration policies and governance, including immigration, emigration and integration. Thi...
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Metholodologies for the Estimation of Stocks of Irregular Migrants
This paper discusses how to measure these 'hard to reach' populations, either directly or indirectly. Although it is impossible to get an entirely accurate number of undocumented migrants, Jandl offers a number of...
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Data and Analysis: Partnering to better understand and address the human development aspects of migration
This paper briefly reviews the contributions of members of the Global Migration Group (GMG)1 to the improvement of migration data and to policy-relevant migration research, discusses the obstacles that still ...
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Migration and Remittances Household Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methodological Aspects and Main Findings
The report lets readers look at the sources, content, methodology, fieldwork practices, and data processing used to complete a World Bank household survey accessing the importance of remittances in eleven Subsahar...
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Enhancing Data on Migration in West and Central Africa
This publication is meant to address the current problems and insufficiencies plaguing statistics in West and Central Africa, touching on common problems that inhibit adequate data collected from censuses as well ...
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SDG 9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
What do we know? Source: Migration for Sustainable Development (M4D NET), 2023 Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: To facilitate the implementation of the global indicator framework, all in...
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SDG 12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers ...
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SDG 14: LIFE BELOW WATER
What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers based on their...
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SDG 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers ...
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5-Years of the Migration Data Portal
Time flies! We are celebrating five years of the Global Migration Data Portal. With migration data being scattered between various institutions and countries, the Portal was set up on 15 Decemb...
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Women are often more affected by climate change
Women are often more affected by climate change, especially when it comes to migration and displacement.
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Four reasons why we need gender mainstreaming in migration data
Migration data disaggregation by sex is necessary but also not sufficient in understanding the lived experiences of migrants with diverse genders. Gender identities as the usual conflation of sex and gender narrow...
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Immigration policies and the rise of digital nomads
More countries may adjust their immigration policies to factor in the rise of digital nomads.
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Making recommendations for the use of AI in migration management in South Africa
Leveraging machine learning and co-creating open maps in the DRC and Uganda to enhance humanitarian health response
Mapping services and facilities in Tanzanian and Ugandan host communities through satellite and crowd-sourced data
Mapping needs, services, and facilities in Uganda, Türkiye, South Sudan and Syria through crowd-sourced data
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Where to Find Migration Data
This video gives insight into some of the best and most easily accessible migration (and remittance) data and databases.
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Africa Migration Data Network Launch
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Classifying and Defining Migrants for Statistics
This video explains the different ways that migrants are defined in statistics and what consequences that has for the number of migrants that are counted.
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Migrant Stocks vs. Migrant Flows
This short 'explainer' video explains the differences between migration stock data and migration flow data.
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Detection rates of trafficked persons by sex, 2005-2016
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Irregular migration
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Global Compact for Migration - Data recommendations
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Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Durango
En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración en el estado de Durango, así como de otros ámbitos con potencial para desarrollo adicional, s...
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Migration Governance Second Profile: The Republic of Kenya
This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Kenya governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migratio...
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Migration Governance Profile: Municipality of Coto Brus
This Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of Municipality of Coto Brus (Costa Rica) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six doma...
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Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Municipalidad de Coto Brus
En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración de la municipalidad de Coto Brus, así como de otros ámbitos con potencial para desarrollo adi...
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Migration data in Southern Asia
The densely populated sub-region of Southern Asia, encompassing 1.94 billion people (UN DESA, 2020) in nine countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, ...
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Migration data in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa has historically been part of global migration and trade networks and continues to play an important role in both. The geographic sub-region1spans a total of 18 countries, ranging from Burundi, Rwan...
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Migration data in Europe
A wide range of migration data is collected and disseminated in Europe at national and, sometimes, subnational level. Institutional and legal frameworks have been developed by the European Union (EU) with the aim ...
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Migration data in Northern Africa
The six countries in Northern AfricaAs defined by the UN Statistics Division – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia – have historically been and remain significant countries of migrant destination, tr...
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