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Urbanization and migration

Migration, whether internal or international, has always been one of the forces driving the growth of urbanization and bringing opportunities and challenges to cities, migrants and governments. Increasingly, ...
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International students

The numbers of internationally mobile students are increasing and destinations diversifying. “Internationally mobile students” typically hold a non-resident visa status (sometimes called a student’s visa) to pursu...
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Irregular migration

Reliable statistics on stocks or flows of irregular migrants, the well-being of migrants in irregular situations, or the extent to which they have access to services such as health an...
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Environmental Migration

Quantifying environmental migration is challenging given the multiple drivers of such movement, related methodological challenges and the lack of data collection standards. Some quantitative data exist on populati...

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Women and Migration: The mental health nexus

To determine the mental health needs of female Filipino migrant domestic workers, a survey was designed and conducted. Results were analysed alongside other data, such as case studies and key informant interviews....
Disaster databases

How useful and reliable are disaster databases in the context of climate and global change? A comparative case study analysis in Peru

Disaster databases are a primary tool for the analysis of disaster characteristics and trends at global or national scales, and they support disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. However, the qual...
India on the Move and Churning - New Evidence

India on the Move and Churning: New Evidence

Study on internal migration in India which analyses census data (using Cohort-based Migration Metric (CMM) and gravity model) and railway passenger traffic flow data  provided by the Ministry of Railways. The...
Migration Policy Practive VolX

Migration Policy Practice (Vol. X, Number 1, January–March 2020) Special Issue on Data, Human Mobility and the Environment – MECC & DTM

This special issue of Migration Policy Practice focuses on the linkages between migration, the environment and climate change. Although numerous papers and reports have been written about this subject in recent ye...

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