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Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean
Discussions around migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean are often riddled with misconceptions and partial representations of a complex reality. A growing body of evidence produced just o...
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Analyse de l’impact de COVID-19 sur le systeme regional de collecte et de gestion des donnees sur la migration en Afrique de l'Ouest
En raison de la pandémie de Covid-19 et des mesures de confinement, plusieurs Etats membres de la CEDEAO (Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest) ont vu leurs systèmes de collecte et de gestion de...
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Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa
The BD4M Studio Report shares the strategies developed by participants, as well as several key takeaways they deemed important for the systematic, sustainable, and responsible re-use of data to create positiv...
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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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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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Understanding Migration to West African Artisanal Mines
This article is based on the author's chapter “The development impact of “gold rushes” in Mali and Burkina Faso: the multifaceted effects of migration on artisanal gold mining sites”, in the edited volume&nb...
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Smuggling networks along the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR)
This article is part of a blog series on the edited volume "Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean: trends, risks, development, governance". The volume features co...
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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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Migration trends along the Central Mediterranean Route
Tashia Shupert from IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) discusses migration trends along the Central Mediterranean Route.
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration Data in West Africa: How much do we know?
Aderanti Adepoju, founder and coordinator at the Network of Migration Research on Africa, shares his views on the lack of migration data in Africa. This interview took place during first International Forum on Mig...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration Data in West Africa: How could they be improved?
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Migration data in Western Africa
Western Africa1 has long been characterized by high levels of mobility, a trend that far predates the current configuration of borders established during the colonial era. An estimated 7.6 million internatio...
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