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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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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...
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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...
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How Climate Change Affects the Pacific
The crystal blue ocean of the Pacific Islands regularly attracts tourists from across the globe, but for millions of islanders who call the Pacific home, the ocean is more than a dream vacation spot. It’s central ...
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Citizenship and migration
Citizenship is a core feature of the international state system. Through laws on citizenship and electoral rights, states determine who belongs to the people in whose name they govern and for whom they assume resp...
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Can data help improve migrant domestic workers' lives?
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are an estimated 11.5 million migrant domestic workers (MDWs) around the world, approximately 8.5 million of whom are female. MDWs are international ...
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Let’s talk about climate migrants, not climate refugees
The impacts of climate change, such as drought or sea-level rise, could push an increasing number of people to leave their homes in the future. Should we call these migrants "climate refugees" and what are the imp...
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Health assessments of refugees: What can the data tell us?
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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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Zipline or trap? How the gig economy may affect immigrant integration
Globalisation, technological advances, and shifting norms and values are reshaping the way we work. One of the biggest trends in the past decade has been the rise of the “gig” or “platform” economy: casual, task-b...
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Family migration
Family is a major driver of migration. Family migration is the term used to categorize the migration of people who migrate due to new or established family ties, and it encompasses several sub-categories: reunific...
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Migration data sources
The demands for migration data arising from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have prompted the international statistical community to review the use of traditional sources for migration data, such as po...
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Gender and migration
The motives and consequences of human mobility are shaped by various factors such as customary rules based on gender expectations, ethnicity, race, age and class. Among these, it can be argued that gender has the ...
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Latest Blog posts
Migration & vulnerability
Health assessments of refugees: What can the data tell us?
Dr Kol Wickramage and Dr Dominik Zenner | 20 Jun 2019
Immigration & emigration statistics
Improving data on migration in Africa: Expert voices
Elisa Mosler Vidal | 14 May 2019
Types of migration
Zipline or trap? How the gig economy may affect immigrant integration
Liam Patuzzi and Meghan Benton | 18 Mar 2019
Types of migration
Family migration
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