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Refugees and Migrants: 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.
Overview
Data & Statistics
News sources
Policy
Organizations & Initiatives
Electronic Books
Multimedia
Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrive from
Turkey
to Skala Sykamias, Lesbos island,
Greece
.Volunteers (life rescue team - with yellow-red clothes) from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms help the refugees. Creative Commons 4.0
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Gurpreet Rana
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Overview
Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2019 Report
Source: UNHCR
Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018 Report
Source: UNHCR
Global Report on Internal Displacement 2019
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
World Migration Report 2020
Source: UN International Organization for Migration
International Migration Outlook 2019
Source: OECD iLibrary. UM USERS only.
International Organization for Migration
Migration Policy Institute
An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide.
Environment Migration Portal
Source: Institute of Migration.
European Union | Population: demography, population projections, census, asylum & migration – Overview
Source: EU
Immigration | Pew Research Center
Refugee and Migrant Health
Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2019 Report
Source: UNHCR
UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health
December 2018. From: The Lancet and the University College London.
WHO Refugee and Migrant Health
World Health Organization
U.S. Focus
CDC Immigrant and Refugee Health
U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Immigration and Health Policy
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
International Agreements
History of UNHCR
The 1951 Refugee Convention
1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants
2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration