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Global Migration Indicators (2021)

The 2021 Global Migration Indicators report summarizes 20 recent migration trends based on periodically updated data on the Global Migration Data Portal and is a snapshot of international data across a r...
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Covid 19 Global Thematic Update

Impact of COVID-19 on protection risks for refugees and migrants (Update #2)

This is the second in a series of global thematic updates on 4Mi data collected remotely by MMC about the impact of COVID-19 on refugees and migrants travelling along mixed migration routes in Africa, Asia and Lat...
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Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Profile

According to the Regional Coordination Platform for the Response for Venezuelans (R4V), as of June 2020, more than 5 million refugees and migrants from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela had left their country d...
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ANALYSE DE L’IMPACT DE COVID 19 SUR LE SYSTEME REGIONAL DE COLLECTE ET DE GESTION DES DONNEES SUR LA MIGRATION EN AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST.

Analyse de l’impact de COVID-19 sur le systeme regional de collecte et de gestion des donnees sur la migration en Afrique de l'Ouest

En raison de la pandémie de Covid-19 et des mesures de confinement, plusieurs Etats membres de la CEDEAO (Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest) ont vu leurs systèmes de collecte et de gestion de...
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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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The potential of data collected by civil society

CSO data—alongside official government data—provides further insights into COVID-19 pandemic's impact on migrants 
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Missing Migrants and MGI-informed projects are recognized as SDG good practices

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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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COVID-19 Mobility Monitoring Project: Using mobile phones’ location data to measure effects of Italy’s lockdown on human mobility

COVID-19 Mobility Monitoring Project: Using mobile phones’ location data to measure effects of Italy’s lockdown on human mobility
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Facebook’s Disease Prevention Maps: Using social media data to help “flatten the curve”

Facebook’s “Data for Good” initiative shares data with NGOs, research organisations, and the public to allow for a quick and targeted response to the Coronavirus pandemic
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EU Commission’s COVID-19 Data Platform: Facilitating data sharing and analysis to accelerate research to “flatten the curve”

The EU Commission’s COVID-19 Data Platform is a collaborative portal to share vast amounts of data, datasets and studies in an organised and structured way
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Monitoring human mobility during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ghana using mobile phone data from Vodafone

By using mobile phone data, this project showed how the Ghanaian population reacted to the lockdown policies implemented to counter the spread of the Coronavirus

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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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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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Migration data in Oceania

Oceania is comprised of island nations with few shared land borders spread across the Pacific Ocean. Traditionally, the ocean was seen to connect people through a ‘sea of islands’ (Hau’ofa et al., 1993), resulting...
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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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Do awareness-raising campaigns on the risks of irregular migration support safer migration decisions? IOM research provides new evidence.
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