This online guide from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) links users to data on immigrants and immigration in the United States and internationally. The guide includes more than 220 data sources compiled by governmental and authoritative non-governmental sources. Topics covered include: (1) foreign-born population, (2) migrant stocks and flows, (3) humanitarian and labour migration, (4) naturalization, (5) education, (6) and language attainment.
The data value chain describes the evolution of data from collection to analysis, dissemination, and the final impact of data on decision making. While the value chain can be applied to all types of data, it may be particularly useful for a better understanding of the gaps in gender data.
This report outlines key trends that have been observed, with a focus on forced displacement, mixed migration, and resettlement movements. In 2017, migration in the East and Horn of Africa continued to be driven by a range of factors including conflict, insecurity, extreme weather conditions, political unrest, the youth bulge, and uneven economic growth.
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IOM's Migration Health Research Series aims at sharing high-yield scientific papers and analytical commentaries aimed at advancing migration health policy and practice at national, regional and global levels. The first book of the series is a two-part volume profiling the development of the National Migration Health Policy and intervention framework in Sri Lanka, which to a large extent was driven by an evidence-informed, multisectoral approach.
This document provides international principles and recommendations for use by national statistical offices and census officials in countries throughout the world in planning and organizing their censuses. Topics include internal migration and international migration.
These guidelines from the UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) are targeted at policy coherence in migration and development at the local level. They provide good practice examples of the topics discussed, and useful tools, handbooks and training materials.
This report presents the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) discussion, of which the objective was to identify challenges and best practices by countries of origin, transit and destination, as well as possible joint efforts to protect the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents.