The Global Migration Group Handbook

Measuring international migration and its impact on development

A practical guide

Ann Singleton

School for Policy Studies

University of Bristol

May 24, 2015

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A practical guide

• Purpose of the Handbook• Contents• Current state of play• Common themes• Lessons

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Purpose of the handbook

• Improving data comparability and coverage and the collection and analysis of data - to inform policy

• The need for data - dynamics• What is possible?• Where are the gaps?• Examples of good practice• Possible future solutions

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Contents: Chapter One

• Definitions and sources• Types of data (stocks and flows)

• sources: census, admin data, surveys, counts

• innovative sources (mobile phones, social media)

• Criteria (country of birth, citizenship)• Duration of stay (long-term, short-term,

transit)

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Contents: Chapter Two

• Chapter Two • Reasons for Migration

• Work• Study• Family (family formation, family

reunion, adoption, etc)• Humanitarian (refugees, asylum

seekers)

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Contents: Chapter Three

• Migration and development• Labour markets

• Remittances

• Trade

• Population dynamics

• Health

• Education

• Intellectual property

• Environment

• Impact of migration in destination countries

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Contents: Chapter Four

• Protection of Migrants• Human rights of migrants• Women• Children and adolescents• Migrant girls• Victims of trafficking• Other groups (migrants in detention, stranded

migrants, migrants in crisis situation)

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Next steps

• Identification of common themes• definitions, missing categories, what is to be

done?

• Different and changing requirements policy needs

• new challenges

• Different and new sources• qualitative data, NGOs, big data

• Data availability• improving user access, transparency

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