Minutes of the Launch and first meeting of the UNMN Belarus.

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Youth organizations should be taken more seriously and be involved more directly in the global conversation on international migration. Aayesha Fazal from @UNMGCY explains why

The United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Turkmenistan initiated a UNMN at the country level to facilitate effective, timely and coordinated UN system-wide actions supporting the Government of Turkmenistan in implementing objectives set forth in the GCM and in line with the priorities of...

Online conference to launch the National UN Network on Migration in Azerbaijan on 17 July 2020.

Voluntary national report submitted by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on its progress on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, ahead of the regional review for Europe and North America that took place in November...

Voluntary national report submitted by the government of Portugal on its progress on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, ahead of the regional review for Europe and North America that took place in November 2020.

Voluntary national report submitted by the government of Armenia on its progress on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, ahead of the regional review for Europe and North America that took place in November 2020.

With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Goals, we have an unmissable opportunity to empower migrants to fulfill their development potential, which can, in turn, have positive ripple effects for communities locally, regionally, and globally. By following a family’s migratory journey...

The global compact for migration is the first, intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner.

Effective migration management requires some degree of anticipation of the magnitude and nature of future flows. In response to these needs, two types of approaches have emerged in the literature in recent years: (a) migration forecasts and (b) migration scenarios. This report presents the results...

This blog discusses the potential of Blockchain to offer cost-efficiency, transparency and accountability in migration and asylum programmes.

This paper uses original survey data in Bogota, Colombia, to compare the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) between migrants who have lived in Bogota for a longer period and recently arrived Venezuelan migrants. The study identifies duration of time in a new neighbourhood as a...

This paper estimates the number of expatriates in 17 EU countries using Facebook data on “expats” and proposes a method to account for over- or under-representation of Facebook users in the actual population. Whilst acknowledging the methodological and data-integrity issues of using data from social...

This paper builds on the Integrated Modeling of European Migration (IMEM) framework and provides a statistical framework that can incorporate new data sources, such as social media. It also combines administrative and household survey data from 2002 to 2015 to offer estimates of migration flows...

With increasing evidence that migrants are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 due to factors such as overcrowding in dormitories and limited access to healthcare, disaggregated data could help policymakers better understand the vulnerability of specific groups of population, including migrants...

Supporting governments with digitalizing solutions for integrated border management and ID management is an IOM priority. These Briefs present the most recent findings and recommendations from the ongoing Identification and Monitoring of Emerging Immigration, Consular and Visa Needs initiative...