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Migrant rights

Under international law, migrants have rights by virtue of their humanity. International human rights instruments, or treaties and documents such as declarations, are of general application and therefore apply to ...
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Approaches to predicting future migration flows and trends

Future migration trends

Anticipating future migration flows encompasses an increasingly diverse field of approaches. Early warnings systems, foresight (scenarios) and forecasting are the three main approaches intended to provide informed...
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Assessing the capacity of national statistical systems: A user’s guide

The NSS Assessment Guide identifies four different tool typologies to assist in the preparation of national statistical plans or strategies; aid development partner’s capacity building investment efforts...
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National census questions repository

UN National census questions repository

A database on how national censuses ask questions related to international migration. This portal disseminates questions asked by national population censuses, carried out since 2005, for selected characteristics,...
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Gender and migration

BRIDGE Cutting edge pack: Gender and migration

Written and produced by BRIDGE, a specialised gender and development research and information service based in the Gender and Sexuality Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, in colla...
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Venezuela emigration

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

As of 5 November 2020, there were approximately 5.5 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela in the world  (R4V, 2020a). Most of them (around 80 per cent) reside in countries in Latin America and the Cari...
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Migration Governance Profiles

Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Vanuatu

This country profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Vanuatu’s (hereafter referred to as Vanuatu) migration governance structures and area...
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Migration Data in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Migration to and from countries in Southern Africa1 is driven largely by the pursuit of economic opportunities, political instability and increasingly, environmental hazards. In a region with an estimated populati...
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Migration data in Northern Africa

The six countries in Northern AfricaAs defined by the UN Statistics Division – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia – have historically been and remain significant countries of migrant destination, tr...
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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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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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Migration & vulnerability

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Addressing migrants´ vulnerability will be key to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
Irene Schöfberger and Marzia Rango | 18 Jan 2021

Immigration & emigration statistics

Migration data and the shift to cities
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 14 Jan 2021

Immigration & emigration statistics

Estimating migration flows with administrative data in the Asia Pacific
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 15 Dec 2020

Migration policy

External voting in North and West Africa
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 15 Dec 2020
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