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.

A Syrian refugee in Adana, Turkey. © 2012 TERsaci/photography collective, Courtesy of Photoshare
Policy Information & Analysis
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Immigration Law and Policy in the U.S.U-M USERS ONLY
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IOM Migration Governance Indicators | REPORT: A Global Perspective Source: International Organization for Migration"This report constitutes a first global overview of the state of national migration governance across the world. It analyses MGI data to show and discuss policy trends in a number of policy areas that relate to migration (health, education, security and economy among others)."
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IOM | Migration Law Database "The online migration law database draws together migration related instruments and relevant norms regulating migration at the international and regional levels. The following sources of information are being included: relevant international, regional and bilateral treaties; international and regional resolutions, declarations and other instruments. The database will soon also contain relevant and prominent case law."
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CLIMB Database: Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Database "United Nations online database compiles policy instruments - including national policy instruments in 172 countries and bilateral and/or regional policy instruments. Each of these instruments contains provisions of relevance to human mobility in the context of disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation."
Source: Statista. Zandt, F. (November 4, 2021). Climate Change, the Great Displacer [Digital image]. Retrieved April 28, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/chart/26117/average-number-of-internal-climate-migrants-by-2050-per-region/
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