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Research Guide for Research commissioned by the ACP Observatory on Migration

This handbook outlines definitions, data sources and research practices for understanding and measuring mobility in ACP countries. 
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Obtaining representative data on IDPs: challenges and recommendations

The paper briefly outlines the technical prerequisites for obatining representative data in IDP contexts; it also highlights some of the challenges encountered when attempting to get these data. Food for thought a...
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Integrating migrants in emergency preparedness, response and recovery in their host countries: Training Manual

This training course is aimed at providing details on why it is important, and how, to roll out measure that can help bridge some of these barriers. Such measures include those that the relevant actors can take to...
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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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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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Monitoring behavioural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, using Facebook advertisement campaigns

Using Facebook advertisement campaigns, this project monitors individual behavioural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Measuring the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, using location data from Baidu

Using location data from Chinese search engine Baidu, this project measured the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to help reduce the outbreak of COVID-19
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Social interactions in Mexico during the swine flu pandemic: Using mobile phone data to measure the effectiveness of human mobility regulations for reducing the virus spread

Using mobile phone data to measure the effectiveness of Mexican regulations to reduce the outbreak of the swine flu
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‘Searching for a better life’: Using Google data to predict bilateral migration flows in real-time

With using data from Google Trends, this project makes predictive estimates for bilateral migration flows and intentions

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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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Destination regions of Afghan migrants, mid-2020

Destination regions of Afghan migrants, mid-2020

  Of the estimated 5.85 million Afghans who lived outside their home country as of mid-year 2020, nearly 74 per cent of them resided in neighbouring countries in Asia. Less than 11 per cent of all Afghan m...

Main destination countries of Afghan migrants, mid-2020

  Nearly 74 per cent of the estimated 5.85 million Afghan migrants resided in neighbouring countries in Southern Asia -- more than 46 per cent and 27 per cent resided in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pa...
Undocumented Afghans

Afghan Refugees and Undocumented Afghans

  By the end of 2021, a total of 2.7 million refugees globally were from Afghanistan (UNHCR, 2022). Most of them were hosted in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan.&nbsp...
First time asylum applicants

First-time asylum applications by Afghans, 2015 - 2021

A total of 620,905 first-time asylum applications were filed by Afghan nationals in the European Union (EU-27) countries between 2015 and 2021. Among the EU-27 countries, Germany, France and Greece received the hi...

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Migration Governance Profiles

Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Madagascar

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Madagascar (hereinafter referred to as Madagascar)  governance structures and areas with potential for further development, a...

Profil de gouvernance de la migration : La République de Madagascar

Ce profil décrit les points forts et les aspects à développer des structures de gouvernance des migrations de la République de Madagascar (ci-après Madagascar), sur la base des six domaines du cadre de gouvernance...

Migration Governance Profile: North Macedonia

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of North Macedonia’s migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Mi...

Migration Governance Indicators: Ukraine Second Profile (2021)

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Ukraine  governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migration Go...

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