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Labour migration

Labour migration

In 2019, there were 169 million international migrant workers in the world and they constituted 4.9 per cent of the global labour force in the destination countries&nbs...
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The motives and consequences of human mobility are shaped by various factors such as customary rules based on gender expectations, ethnicity, race, age and class. Among these, it can be argued that gender has the ...
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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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The migrant pay gap: Understanding wage differences between migrants and nationals

The Report on The Migrant Pay Gap: Understanding wage differences between migrants and nationals presents a global analysis of the migrant pay gap based on data covering 49 countries (33 High Income Coun...
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Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries

This publication aims to recapitulate major research findings carried out in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Tri...
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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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Report on labour migration statistics in Africa - Second Edition (2017)

The second edition of the Africa Labour Migration Statistics Report is released to support the implementation of the African Union’s (AU’s) Agenda 2063 (AU), the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Dev...
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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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One year later, none the wiser: Seasonal migrant workers still left behind during COVID-19

One thing the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated is the crucial role of seasonal migrant workers in global food supply systems. At the start of the agricultural season in 2020, countries heavily reliant on...
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Can data help improve migrant domestic workers' lives?

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are an estimated 11.5 million migrant domestic workers (MDWs) around the world, approximately 8.5 million of whom are female. MDWs are international ...
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Four steps to ensure the mobility of social security for migrants

Portable social security benefits for migrants have great potential to alleviate poverty and contribute to development. Yet there is no guarantee that migrants will be able to take benefits&nbs...
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Senegal Study

Analysing the profiles of seasonal human mobility from anonymized and aggregated mobile phone data. Application in food security.

Global Skill Partnership

Managing safer, legally, and ethically migration through multi-stakeholder partnerships via Global Skill Partnerships

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Investigating the effects of social networks on migration movements in Rwanda

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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data on labour migration in Asia

Manolo Abella, Senior Research Associate of COMPAS, University of Oxford, talks to GMDAC about data on labour migration in Asia.
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Explaining the portability of benefits

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Distribution of migrant workers in 2013, by region

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Gender and migration

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Distribution of migrant domestic workers by broad region, 2013 (female)

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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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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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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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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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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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Afghan women, migration, and their future

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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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