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Using Facebook data to trace relocations from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

It is impossible to provide timely estimates of human migration flows after natural disasters by using only traditional data. Facebook offers new opportunities as a complementary source of information. An internat...
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We have recommendations, now to implementation: The work of the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics

Recommendations for official statistics are important. They exist for censuses, civil registration and vital statistics, energy and many other thematic and substantive areas. The new recommendations for refugee an...
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5 recommendations to improve data for safe, orderly and regular migration

It is widely acknowledged that there is a paucity of basic data on international migration and that existing data are not fully utilized or shared. On many occasions, the UN General Assembly has called for reliabl...
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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. ...
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Migration trends along the Central Mediterranean Route

Tashia Shupert from IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) discusses migration trends along the Central Mediterranean Route.
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How to communicate migration data effectively

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Migration in West and North Africa: Data sources

Philippe Fargues discusses migration data sources in West and North Africa.
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Migration in West & North Africa and across the Mediterranean

Public debates surrounding migration in West and North Africa often are driven by misconception and partial representations of a complex reality. A new volume by IOM GMDAC provides a more nuanced view.http:/...
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Addressing migrants´ vulnerability will be key to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted two important aspects of migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean. The first is that many migrants from these regions face specific vulnerabilities duri...
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Migration data and the shift to cities

Ronald Skeldon, Professor at the Universities of Sussex and Maastricht explains the state of migration data and the shift to cities.  
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Estimating migration flows with administrative data in the Asia Pacific

James Raymer, Professor at the Australian National University, explains how a project uses administrative data to estimate migration flows in the Asia Pacific region.
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External voting in North and West Africa

Thibaut Jaulin, Scientific Coordinator at the Migration Policy Center (MPC) discusses external voting in North and West Africa.
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Data Protection Terminology

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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The importance of telling the human story behind the data

Catherine Gicheru is an International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Knight Fellow. In this video she explains how we can use data to tell the human story of migration.  
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Migration and Development in West Africa

Dr. Mary Boatemaa Setrana, University of Ghana and University of Johannesburg, explains the linkages between migration and development in the West African sub-region.  
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Free movement policies and border controls in West and North Africa and Europe

Most States in West and North Africa and in Europe are part of free movement areas. However, national borders within regions and at the external borders of regional organisations remain important. The ch...
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Using Big Data to identify migration drivers

Teddy Wilkin, Head of Sector and Constantinos Melachrinos, Research Officer at EASO explain how big data can be used to identify migration drivers along the Central Mediterranean Route.
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The need for a fact-based dialogue on migration

John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division at UN DESA explains why there is a need for a fact-based dialogue on migration.
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The importance of telling the human story behind the data
Catherine Gicheru | 1 Dec 2020

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Migration and Development in West Africa
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 27 Nov 2020

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Irene Schöfberger | 20 Nov 2020
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