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Child and young migrants

Collecting and disaggregating migration data by age is essential for analysing the age dynamics of migrant populations. Child and young migrants are at risk of abuse, trafficking and exploitation, especi...
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Migrant rights

Under international law, migrants have human rights by virtue of their humanity. International customary law and international human rights instruments are of universal application and therefore set States duties ...
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Human trafficking

The crime of human trafficking is complex and dynamic, taking place in a wide variety of contexts and difficult to detect. One of the greatest challenges in developing targeted counter-trafficking responses and me...
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development consists of a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Migration is specifically referenced in seven of the SDGs and is also a cross-cut...

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Use of new data sources for measuring international migration

Use of new data sources for measuring international migration

Migration and other forms of cross-border mobility are issues of high policy importance. Demands for statistics in these areas have further increased in light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the...
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Capacity Building For Governments To Develop Evidence-Based Migration Policies

The importance of improving data collection, analysis and management is gaining increasing recognition. Objective 1 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration(GCM), the first global agreement on...
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People on the Move in a Changing Climate – Linking Policy, Evidence and Action

An extensive array of international agreements and frameworks attest to the urgency of addressing climate change and human mobility together, as climate change, environmental degradation and disasters reshape cont...

IOM Global Data Institute Thematic Brief #1: Evidence Summary on Climate Change and the Future of Human Mobility

In the past decade, an estimated 21.6 million people annually were internally displaced by climate-related hazards worldwide (IDMC, 2022). Climate change is increasing these hazards across many parts of the world....

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Migration Data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Migration in the SDGs The SDGs’ central reference to migration is made in Target 10.7 to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the ...

SDG 1: END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS EVERYWHERE

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than USD 1.25 a day...

SDG 3: Good health and well-being

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births Star Star Star Indicator: 3.1....

SDG 4: QUALITY EDUCATION

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relev...

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Do awareness-raising campaigns on the risks of irregular migration support safer migration decisions? IOM research provides new evidence.

Forthcoming impact evaluation studies provide evidence on the potential effects of awareness-raising campaigns to enhance safer decision-making of potential migrants. Migrants as Messengers community gather...
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5-Years of the Migration Data Portal

Time flies! We are celebrating five years of the Global Migration Data Portal. With migration data being scattered between various institutions and countries, the Portal was set up on 15 Decemb...
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Women are often more affected by climate change

Women are often more affected by climate change, especially when it comes to migration and displacement.
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Four reasons why we need gender mainstreaming in migration data

Migration data disaggregation by sex is necessary but also not sufficient in understanding the lived experiences of migrants with diverse genders. Gender identities as the usual conflation of sex and gender narrow...

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Migrant sampling using Facebook advertisements

This project has successfully sampled Polish migrants in four countries by using Facebook advertisements
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Modelling migration flows in Sub-Saharan Africa using census microdata

This study analyses census microdata from 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to map internal and international migration movements
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“Data for Integration”: An open data challenge to enhance place-based integration policies in the European Union

Improving the use of Census data from different national statistics institutes to foster research and policy-making on local aspects of integration of migrants
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GeoMatch: Using artificial intelligence to improve refugee integration through data-driven assignments

Allocating refugees to optimal resettlement locations for integration success in the United States and Switzerland

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The Portal gets an upgrade: A new dashboard!

On 15 June, the Global Migration Data Portal unveiled its new dashboard featuring a series of tools to help policy makers, national statistics officers, journalists and the general public gain access to the latest...
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Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa

The African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) and IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) organized a webinar on "Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa"...
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Collecting Migration Data: Administrative vs. Survey Data

In this video, Melissa Siegel looks at the pros and cons of using administrative data vs. survey data for answering migration research questions as well as the pros and cons of different kinds of administrative da...
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Where to Find Migration Data

This video gives insight into some of the best and most easily accessible migration (and remittance) data and databases.
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Migration Governance Profiles

Über die Indikatoren der Migrationspolitik

Im Jahr 2015 entwickelte die IOM das „Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF)“ um zu helfen zu definieren, wie eine „gut gesteuerte Migrationspolitik" auf nationaler Eben aussehen könnte. Das MiGOF wurde von den IO...

About the Migration Governance Indicators

In 2015, IOM developed a Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF) to help define what “well-managed migration policy” might look like at the national level. The MiGOF was welcomed by IOM’s Member States the sam...

Indicadores de Gobernanza de la Migración (IGM)

En 2015, la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) desarrolló un Marco de Gobernanza de la Migración (MiGOF) para ayudar a los Estados a definir los elementos esenciales que constituyen la base nece...

Indicateurs de gouvernance des migrations (IGM)

En 2015, l'OIM a élaboré le cadre de gouvernance des migrations (MiGOF) pour aider les pays à définir ce à quoi une « politique de migration bien gérée » pourrait ressembler au niveau national. Le MiGOF a été accu...

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Migration data in Europe

A wide range of migration data is collected and disseminated in Europe at national and, sometimes, subnational level. Institutional and legal frameworks have been developed by the European Union (EU) with the aim ...
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Migration data in Eastern Africa

Eastern Africa has historically been part of global migration and trade networks and continues to play an important role in both. The geographic sub-region1spans a total of 18 countries, ranging from Burundi, Rwan...
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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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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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