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Refugees and Displaced Persons: Information Resources for a Global Crisis
Scholarly sources, data and data tools, news sources and in-depth background information addressing issues of human displacement and immigration.
Data Tools and Sources | United States
- U.S. Immigration TrendsSource: Migration Policy Institute
- State Immigration Data ProfilesSource: Migration Policy Institute
- Immigration Data & StatisticsSource: U.S. Office of Immigration Statistics
Data Guides
- Immigration Data MattersFrom the Migration Policy Institute and the Population Reference Bureau. An online guide links providing 220 evaluated data resources on immigrants and immigration in the U.S. and internationally.
Aerial view of housing at the camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, for Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. © 2018 M Yousuf Tushar, Courtesy of Photoshare
Data Tools and Sources | International
- Child MigrationSource: UNICEF Data
- Country ProfilesSource: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- Global Internal Displacement DatabaseSource: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- International MigrationSource: United Nations Population Division
- International Migration StatisticsSource: Migration Policy Institute
- Lancet Migration: DataSource: Lancet Migration: Global Collaboration to Advance Migration Health
- Migration and Remittances DataFrom open data collected through the Migration and Remittances Household Surveys conducted for the Africa Migration Project jointly undertaken by the African Development Bank and the World Bank.
- Migration Data HubSource: Migration Policy Institute
- OECD International Migration StatisticsSource: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. U-M users only.
- Refugee or Migrant Data | STATISTASource: Statista. U-M USERS.
- UNHCR Statistical YearbooksSource: United Nations High Commission on Refugees
Data Visualization
- International Migration StatisticsSource: Migration Policy Institute
- IOM Displacement Tracking MatrixSource: International Organization for Migration. An online platform that visualizes presence of population categories and mobility tracking data through collection of baseline area assessments.
- Human Mobility Impacts Due to COVID-19Source: Institute of Migration, UN Migration
- Lancet Migration: DataSource: Lancet Migration: Global Collaboration to Advance Migration Health
- Migration Data PortalSource: Global Migration Data Analysis Centre
- Missing Migrants: Tracking Deaths Along Migratory RoutesSource: International Organization for Migration
- The Refugee Project: An Atlas of Forced Human MigrationCreated by Hyperakt and Ekene Ijeoma. Visualizes 1975-2017 UNHCR refugee and UN Population Data to tell stories of refugee movements from origin countries to asylum countries.
- U.S. Immigration TrendsSource: Migration Policy Institute
- UNHCR Historical Refugee DataSource: UNHCR. Illustrates historical data on refugee populations by country.
- UNHCR Population StatisticsSource: United Nations High Commission on Refugees
- UNHCR Resettlement Data FinderUpdated monthly and provides resettlement statistics, interactive graphs and maps