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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a cross-cutting issue, relevant to all of the Su...
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Diasporas

Diasporas, sometimes referred to as expatriates or transnational communities, play an important role in leveraging migration’s benefits for development. Measuring issues relating to diaspora groups is challenging,...
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Migrant recruitment costs

Most low-skilled labour migrants pay fees to obtain contracts and complete recruitment formalities. This is against international conventions and many countries’ national laws that require employers to pay all of ...
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Migration, Development and Evaluation: Where we stand today and why

Presentation exploring the following issues: Policymakers are increasingly interested in harnessing the benefits of migration for development. Growing number of migration interventions aim to have a direct...
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Africa Migration Report

Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative

The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migrat...
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Migration Data in the context of the 2030 Agenda

Migration data in the context of the 2030 Agenda (Measuring migration and development in Armenia)

In 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and accompanying 169 targets designed to g...
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Snapshot report: Pakistani returnees from Greece, Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina

This report is part of the outputs under the European Union funded project “Displacement Tracking Matrix Regional Evidence for Migration Analysis and Policy (DTM REMAP)”. The objective of DTM REMAP is to strengthe...
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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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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: The effects of migration data on development

Hein de Haas, Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, shares his views on data, migration and development.  Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this video are those of the intervi...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: What is Peter Sutherland's migration report?

Kathleen Newland, Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute, talks to GMDAC about the Sutherland report on international migration and development.   Disclaimer: The opinio...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Remittances and the G20

Dilip Ratha, Manager of Migration and Remittances Unit and Head of KNOMAD at the World Bank, talks to GMDAC about the importance of remittances in the G20 countries.
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Recruitment costs of migrant workers: How and why should we monitor them?

Philip Martin, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, is talking to GMDAC about recruitment costs of migrant workers. Disclaimer: The opinions expr...
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Unaccompanied migrant children

Unaccompanied or separated children face increased health risks during migration

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Disability-inclusive data in migration: How far have we come?

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Visible in advocacy but missing in data: Migrants and persons with disabilities

Like any average 20-something year old, Nujeen Mustafa regularly tweets and Instagrams. But unlike most of her peers, she’s co-authored a book with an internationally acclaimed journalist, received a prestigious a...
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How Covid-19 has made life more dangerous for migrant workers

Migrant workers often live and work in unsafe conditions. The health crisis has made their working lives even more dangerous.  
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Remittances to Afghanistan are lifelines: They are needed more than ever in a time of crisis

Remittances from Afghans working abroad and diaspora communities have long been critical for families and the wider economy. Along with so much else in Afghanistan, there is now uncertainty around this v...
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Data collaboratives in West Africa

Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

(This article was published originally on the 12th of August 2021 on the Big Data for Migration Alliance's blog.)  
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Millionaire migration: How much would you pay for a passport?

More and more of the world’s millionaires are using their wealth to obtain a second nationality through citizenship by investment programs (CIPs). These passports open the doors to greater security, ...
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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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Remittances

Remittances during COVID-19 in Asia Pacific: Resilient despite dire predictions

Migrant remittances are cash or in-kind transfers made by migrants to relatives in countries of origin. In April 2020, experts predicted that the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants would cause g...
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Migration Data in Asia and the Pacific - Launch Event

Introducing IOM’s Asia-Pacific Regional Data Hub (RDH), key findings from a new Regional Secondary Data Review (RSDR) and new sub-regional migration data overviews. The event was held online on Monday, 10 May 2...
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Susanna Corona Maioli  and Kol Wickramage | 20 Jun 2022

Migration & vulnerability

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Disability-inclusive data in migration: How far have we come?
Elisa Mosler Vidal | 25 Jan 2022

Migration & vulnerability

Visible in advocacy but missing in data: Migrants and persons with disabilities
Carla Rojas Paz | 30 Nov 2021

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Joanna York | 25 Oct 2021
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