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Frequently asked Questions (FAQs)

What are the Portal's main objectives? The Portal aims to serve the migration community by making sense of migration...

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In celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre hosted...

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Approaches to predicting future migration flows and trends

Future migration trends

Anticipating future migration flows encompasses an increasingly diverse field of approaches. Early warnings systems, foresight (scenarios) and forecasting are the three main approaches intended to provide informed...
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International students

The numbers of internationally mobile students are increasing and destinations diversifying. “Internationally mobile students” typically hold a non-resident visa status (sometimes called a student’s visa) to pursu...
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Gender and migration

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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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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Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks : Evidence from IOM’s Victims of Human Trafficking Database

The report focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from and within origin countries such as economic shocks, measured by large, discrete changes to export commo...
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Key Figures: Mobility within and from Ukraine, 2020-2023

1-pager from the Global Data Institute (GDI) summarizing key migration and displacement figures in the context of mobility within and from Ukraine (2020-2023), updated with data available as of 22 February 2023. I...
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Policy brief: Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks

Policy Brief: Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks : Evidence from IOM’s Victims of Human Trafficking Database

This policy brief presents the main findings of the report “Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks. The report focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from...
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Identification of missing migrants

Central Mediterranean Route Thematic Report Series - Analysis of Best Practices in the Identification of Missing Migrants: Implications for the Central Mediterranean | Issue No. 2

Over the last decade, crossing the Central Mediterranean has become one of the deadliest journeys in the world for migrants, with at least 15,000 migrants having died on this route since 2014. The vast majority of...
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SDG 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 8.3 Promote development- oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity ...
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SDG 16: PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: Target 16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere Star Star Indicator: 16.1.3 Proportion...
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Migration Data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Migration in the SDGs The SDGs’ central reference to migration is made in Target 10.7 to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the ...
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Regional migration governance in South America: How large-scale Venezuelan emigration puts it to the test

In the South American region, governments have made consistent advancements to facilitate regular migration and immigrants’ integration through a series of agreements that favor access to residency and social righ...
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Forecasting the future of migration—many approaches, one commonality: uncertainty

Policymakers want to know what’s coming. Migration forecasts are not just in high demand, they are also difficult to navigate. Some approaches to discuss the future of migration require advanced knowledge of stati...
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Negative economic shocks are associated with more human trafficking cases

Negative economic shocks are associated with more human trafficking cases

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A global programme for strengthening migration data: Five key actions

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Leveraging machine learning and co-creating open maps in the DRC and Uganda to enhance humanitarian health response

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Apple’s COVID-19 mobility trends reports: Supporting research and policymaking to fight the Coronavirus pandemic

Providing mobility data for COVID-19-related research based on Apple’s maps services
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Yahoo! log-in information: An innovative data source used to map global migration movements

Mapping global migration movements by analysing geolocated log-in data of Yahoo!’s web services
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Mapping needs, services, and facilities in Uganda, Türkiye, South Sudan and Syria through crowd-sourced data

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External voting in North and West Africa

Thibaut Jaulin, Scientific Coordinator at the Migration Policy Center (MPC) discusses external voting in North and West Africa.
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Migration and Development in West Africa

Dr. Mary Boatemaa Setrana, University of Ghana and University of Johannesburg, explains the linkages between migration and development in the West African sub-region.  
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Using Big Data to identify migration drivers

Teddy Wilkin, Head of Sector and Constantinos Melachrinos, Research Officer at EASO explain how big data can be used to identify migration drivers along the Central Mediterranean Route.
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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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Long-term growth of tertiary-level international students worldwide

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2015.
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Migration Governance Profiles

Profil de gouvernance de la migration: La République de Côte d’Ivoire

Ce profil décrit les points forts et les aspects   à développer des structures de gouvernance des migrations de la République de Côte d’Ivoire, sur la base des six domaines du cadre de gouvernance des migrati...
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About the Migration Governance Indicators

In 2015, IOM developed a Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF) to help define what “well-managed migration policy” might look like at the national level. The MiGOF was welcomed by IOM’s Member States the sam...
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Profil de gouvernance de la migration : République de Guinée

Ce profil décrit les points forts et les aspects à développer des structures de gouvernance des migrations de la République de Guinée, sur la base des six domaines du cadre de gouvernance des migrations (MiGOF). C...
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Migration Governance Profile: The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of  Côte d’Ivoire’s (hereafter referred to as Côte d’Ivoire) migration governance structures and areas with potential for furthe...
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Migration data in Central America

The region of Central America1 (including Mexico) can be characterized by the following migration dynamics: (1) outmigration from countries in the region to Northern America, in large part to the United States; (2...
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Migration data in Northern America

Northern America1 has historically been one of the principal destination regions of international migrants worldwide. According to statistics published by the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social ...
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Migration Data in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Migration to and from countries in Southern Africa1 is driven largely by the pursuit of economic opportunities, political instability and increasingly, environmental hazards. In a region with an estimated populati...
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Migration data in the Caribbean

Long-term migration patterns in the Caribbean1 can be characterized by two principal dynamics. The first, and most prominent, is emigration out of the region, mainly toward Northern America (with the United States...
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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 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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