This page from the Migration Data Portal gives an overview of key concepts in irregular migration and introduces main datasets that have been developed on this topic.

The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and the only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level.

The Scaling Fences: Voices of Irregular African Migrants to Europe report presents the results of an extensive study exploring the perspectives and experiences of 1970 individuals who migrated through irregular routes from Africa to Europe, originating from 39 African countries. Its aim is to...

“We were so terrified with the water coming into the house and the sound of the storm. In front of my eyes, the walls of our house collapsed.” That’s Geeta Maiti, a resident of Mousuni Island, part of the Indian Sundarbans—a 4,000 square-mile World Heritage site on the Bay of Bengal, shared by India...

Juan de Léon Gutierrez was the third child to die in U.S. custody since December, 2018. NBC News retraced his steps back to his parents’ home in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala, and saw crops of subsistence farmers there failing for the third year in a row. As millions of families are left with little...

OMeet Monoara, a 23-year-old seamstress from Kurigram, Bangladesh. Her village has been flooding for years, leading to increasing unemployment and food scarcity. Monoara moved from Kurigram district to the capital Dhaka for the training needed to find a job and start a new life. According to a new...

This brief makes the connection between food security, conflict and migration. 

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This policy brief outlines the ways in which the compacts address the drivers of migration and makes recommendations to enhance the compacts’ provisions on environmental mobility. 

This issue brief focuses on addressing the drivers of migration, including adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters and human-made crises, through protection and assistance, sustainable development, poverty eradication, conflict prevention and resolution. 

The purpose of the present document is to consider the nexus between migration and development from the perspective of research in the social and human sciences and to contribute and enhance the knowledge base available for policy design and implementation.  

This article provides a survey of existing theories and paradigms regarding the question of why people migrate. It espouses the view that migration is an inevitable part of the human experience. 

This report focuses on the latest data on migration between 1995 and 2015 and uses a new three-way categorization of countries. It describes the recent evolution of migration overall as well as by groups of countries according to their growth performance. It analyses what drives these trends and...

This guide offers practical guidance to help policymakers integrate disaster displacement and other related forms of human mobility into regional, national, sub-national and local disaster risk reduction strategies in accordance with the Sendai Framework. 

This report is built around the quantitative analysis of the variables that explain international migration, including the characteristics of a country of origin, bilateral relations between countries such as trade relations and the features of destination countries. 

The Global Compact for Migration defines 23 objectives covering all aspects of migration. This 360-degree approach comes with an array of possible actions and guidance to make migration safe, orderly and regular.

The issue paper contributes to inter-agency reflections on what the Peace component of the Humanitarian-Development- Peace Nexus (HDPN) might and can look like, with an emphasis on the possible engagement pathways along a peace spectrum within humanitarian action. This paper outlines how...

This light guidance was developed by WHO and UNHCR on behalf of the IASC Results Group 4 on Humanitarian-Development Collaboration and in consultation with the UN Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration (JSC). It is to be a live document meant to ensure a...

The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Recommendation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus was adopted by the DAC at its Senior Level Meeting on 22 February 2019. At the centre of strengthening the coherence between humanitarian, development and peace efforts, is the aim of effectively...

The report presents the first comprehensive assessment of the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration in the region. It provides a baseline assessment of achievements, gaps, lessons learned and remaining challenges to guide action to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration, for the...