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5 Key Global Trends on COVID-19 and Migration
More than a year after the emergence of COVID-19, we look at five ways the pandemic has affected migrants around the world.
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Are migrants left behind? How COVID-19 hinders better migration data
Migrants worldwide play an important role in sectors vital to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic but are also exposed to higher risks of contracting the virus. Collecting, analyzing and using data on migrants has be...
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Ensuring data responsibility within the Humanitarian sector
As humanitarians collect more data to inform their operations, it is increasingly within their moral, ethical and legal obligations to ensure they put the necessary data handling safeguards in place. Data Re...
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Reaching Italy by sea: changing profiles and vulnerabilities since 2016
This article is based on the authors' chapter “Vulnerability to exploitation and abuse along the Mediterranean migration routes to Italy”, in the edited volume "Migration in West and North Africa and across t...
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Classifying and Defining Migrants for Statistics
This video explains the different ways that migrants are defined in statistics and what consequences that has for the number of migrants that are counted.
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Migrant Stocks vs. Migrant Flows
This short 'explainer' video explains the differences between migration stock data and migration flow data.
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Key COVID-19 migration trends
One year ago, on 11 March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic! How has the pandemic affected international mobility?
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Estimating irregular migration in the Russian Federation
Olga Chudinovskin, Professor at the Moscow State University, explains how her research tries to estimate irregular migration in the Russian Federation.
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