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Labour migration

In 2017, migrant workers accounted for approximately 59 per cent of the world’s international migrant population (ILO, 2018). Crossing national borders to work is one of the key motivations behind internation...
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Diasporas

Diasporas, sometimes referred to as expatriates or transnational communities, play an important role in leveraging migration’s benefits for development. Measuring issues relating to diaspora groups is challenging,...
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The G20 and migration

The G20 countries are at the centre of not only global economic governance, but also global migration governance. They play a leading role as their policy responses to migration challenges and opportunities affect...
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Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual

The Manual provides and explains concepts, definitions, classifications, and conventions for balance of payments and international investment position statistics; it also presents a brief introduction to the vario...
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Africa Migration Report

Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative

The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migrat...
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Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries

This publication aims to recapitulate major research findings carried out in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Tri...
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Leveraging Remittances for Development

This report discusses the increasing importance of remittances on development; specifically looking at which countries receive the largest amount of remittances, the ways in which remittances can and have red...
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How Blockchain can benefit migration programmes and migrants

Advances in technology often drive changes in how data and information are collected, used and managed. The advent of Blockchain technology, in particular, has impacted various fields; in the field of migration an...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Remittances and the G20

Dilip Ratha, Manager of Migration and Remittances Unit and Head of KNOMAD at the World Bank, talks to GMDAC about the importance of remittances in the G20 countries.
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Data on remittances

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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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Reaching Italy by sea: changing profiles and vulnerabilities since 2016

This article is based on the authors' chapter “Vulnerability to exploitation and abuse along the Mediterranean migration routes to Italy”, in the edited volume "Migration in West and North Africa and across t...
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Africa Migration Report
Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative

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Leveraging Remittances for Development

This report discusses the increasing importance of remittances on development; specifically looking at which countries receive the largest amount of remittances, the ways in which remittances can and...

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The G20 and migration
The G20 and migration

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Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
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