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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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INTRODUCING "DATA BULLETIN: INFORMING A GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION"

"Data Bulletin: Informing a Global Compact for Migration", launched by IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), aims to summarize in an accurate and accessible fashion the existing evidence on migratio...
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Irregular migrant workers in the EU and the US

Irregular, unauthorized, or undocumented workers are persons who are employed without legal authorization to work. No one knows exactly how many irregular foreigners and workers are in European Union (EU) Member S...
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Migrant recruitment costs in the EU

Recruitment or migration costs are worker-paid fees and expenses incurred to obtain jobs in other countries. Many migrant workers pay several months foreign earnings to get jobs, prompting efforts to measure and r...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: How does the UN calculate the number of migrants globally?

Bela Hovy, Chief of the Migration Section at UN DESA, talks to GMDAC about how the United Nations calculates the total number of migrants around the world. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in th...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data on integration of migrants in Europe

Solveigh Hieronimus, Partner at McKinsey & Company, shares her views on data and the integration of migrants in Europe.  Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this video are those of the inter...
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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: 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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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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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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Latest Blog posts

Immigration & emigration statistics

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The Data Innovation Directory: Unlocking the potential of big data for migration policy
N. Sievers , E. Borgnäs and M. Rango | 28 May 2020

Migration & vulnerability

National preparedness and response plans for COVID-19 and other diseases: Why migrants should be included
Dr Dominik Zenner and Dr Kol Wickramage | 14 May 2020

Migration policy

5 UN resources for adapting migration data collection in times of COVID-19
Carla Rojas Paz | 12 May 2020

Migration & development

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The SDGs: measuring whether migrants are being left behind
Elisa Mosler Vidal | 7 May 2020
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