This booklet focuses on the activities that the ICRC carries out on behalf of vulnerable migrants and their families around the world. Examples include visits to migrants who have been detained and helping migrants re-establish contact with their families.

How’s Life? is a statistical report, released every two years, that describes some of the essential aspects of life that shape people’s well-being in OECD and partner countries. This edition contains a chapter that explores the meaning and measurement of migrants’ well-being.

IOM contributes to the promotion of mental health and psychosocial well-being of migrants and host communities, through programs, and activities aiming in accompanying the re-definition of social, professional, family and interpersonal roles.

The World Migration Report 2013 contributes to the global debate on migration and development by exploring and assessing how migration affects a person’s quality of life and their human development across a broad range of dimensions.

The Migration and Integration booklet includes publications not only about integration but also xenophobia and discrimination. The topics covered include: migrant integration policies and practices on a global scale; labour market integration policies in the European Union (EU); irregular employment...

This UNDP publication recommends actions for policymakers to enhance the benefits and reduce the costs of human mobility to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The MIDEQ South-South Migration Hub unpacks the complex and multi-dimensional relationships between migration and inequality in the context of the Global South.

MIDEQ aims to transform understanding of the relationship between migration and inequality in the context of the Global South by...

“i am a migrant” is the UN Migration Agency’s platform to promote diversity and inclusion of migrants in society. It is specifically designed to support volunteer groups, local authorities, companies, associations, groups, indeed, anyone of goodwill who is concerned about the hostile public...

Social protection is a universal human right and a key element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While this right unequivocally applies to migrants, irrespective of migration status, migrant women in particular often remain excluded.

Against this backdrop, this policy brief discusses...

A growing body of work has analysed the relationship between gender and remittances, but very little is known about the comparative value of the remittances sent by migrant women and men.

This policy brief is unique in its analysis of data from 11 national household surveys, which contain...

UN Women has developed Empowering Women Migrant Workers from South Asia: Toolkit for Gender-Responsive Employment and Recruitment. The Toolkit provides comprehensive guidance on ensuring the protection and promotion of the rights of women migrant workers throughout the labour migration cycle. The...

 This manual aims to provide tools to organisations working to advocate new or improved regularisation mechanisms and programmes.

This study analyzes migration policies that facilitate access for migrants in an irregular status to an individual assessment that may lead to regular status.

Available in Spanish only.

This website provides an online repository of about 150 bilateral and multilateral agreements. This resource can be used to get an insight into existing agreements or search for specific agreements by region or keyword.

A presentation which looks to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement.

A presentation of migrants’ rights, including their relationship with national sovereignty by Mr. Guy S. Goodwill Gill, Emeritus Fellow, All Soul's College, University of Oxford, UK and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law.

A presentation which details what the GCM means with regards to international law, and its impact on States and international organizations.

The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migration in Africa by addressing contextual realities and bringing to light practical...

This book analyses the dynamics of regional migration governance and accounts for why, how and with what effects states cooperate with each other in diverse forms of regional grouping on aspects of international migration, displacement and mobility. The book develops a framework for analysis of...

This working paper reviews the nature, evolution, and effects of emigration policies. The findings show the need to improve insights into how states and policies shape migration processes.