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Assisted Voluntary Returns & Reintergration, 2018

Return migration

There are two main forms of return migration: voluntary return and forced return. Data on forced return are usually collected by national and international statistical offices, border protectio...
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IOM data overview

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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5 Key Global Trends on COVID-19 and Migration

More than a year after the emergence of COVID-19, we look at five ways the pandemic has affected migrants around the world. 
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Are migrants left behind? How COVID-19 hinders better migration data

Migrants worldwide play an important role in sectors vital to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic but are also exposed to higher risks of contracting the virus. Collecting, analyzing and using data on migrants has be...
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Data Responsibility

Ensuring data responsibility within the Humanitarian sector

As humanitarians collect more data to inform their operations, it is increasingly within their moral, ethical and legal obligations to ensure they put the necessary data handling safeguards in place.  Data Re...
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Key COVID-19 migration trends

One year ago, on 11 March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic! How has the pandemic affected international mobility?
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Venezuela emigration

5 key data visualizations on COVID-19's impact on Venezuelan refugees and migrants

As of 5 February 2021, there were approximately 5.48 million refugees and migrants from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the world  (R4V, 2021) Most of them (around 80 %) reside in countries in Latin A...
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Estimating irregular migration in the Russian Federation

Olga Chudinovskin, Professor at the Moscow State University, explains how her research tries to estimate irregular migration in the Russian Federation.
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Data on the mobility of Chinese students

Xiaoxiao Chen, Researcher at the Center for China and Globalization explains what data exist on the mobility of Chinese students.
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What is needed for effective SDG monitoring?

Marcela Cerutti, Researcher at the Centre for Population Studies (CENEP) explains what is needed in order to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) effectively.  
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Measuring migration with big data and innovative data sources

Emilio Zagheni, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, explains how big data and innovative data sources can contribute to measuring migration.  
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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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Immigration & emigration statistics

5 Key Global Trends on COVID-19 and Migration
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 1 Apr 2021

Immigration & emigration statistics

Are migrants left behind? How COVID-19 hinders better migration data
Julia Black and Niklas Sievers | 15 Mar 2021

Immigration & emigration statistics

Data Responsibility
Ensuring data responsibility within the Humanitarian sector
Robert Trigwell | 11 Mar 2021

Immigration & emigration statistics

Key COVID-19 migration trends
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 11 Mar 2021
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