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Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean

Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean

Discussions around migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean are often riddled with misconceptions and partial representations of a complex reality. A growing body of evidence produced just o...
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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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Smuggling networks along the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR)

This article is part of a blog series on the edited volume "Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean: trends, risks, development, governance". The volume features co...
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Migration trends along the Central Mediterranean Route

Tashia Shupert from IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) discusses migration trends along the Central Mediterranean Route.
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Migration in West and North Africa: Data sources

Philippe Fargues discusses migration data sources in West and North Africa.
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Migration in West & North Africa and across the Mediterranean

Public debates surrounding migration in West and North Africa often are driven by misconception and partial representations of a complex reality. A new volume by IOM GMDAC provides a more nuanced view.http:/...
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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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Afghanistan remittances

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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Migration & vulnerability

Unaccompanied migrant children
Unaccompanied or separated children face increased health risks during migration
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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