Book launch: ‘Measuring Global Migration: Towards Better Data for All’ by Frank Laczko, Elisa Mosler Vidal and Marzia Rango

Chair: Ann Singleton, Reader in Migration Policy, University of Bristol.

Speakers: Dr Frank Laczko, former Director of IOM GMDAC and the former Head of Research at IOM, Elisa Mosler Vidal, DPhil candidate in Migration Studies, COMPAS, and Marzia Rango, Migration and Human Mobility Specialist at the UN Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC) in the UN Secretariat in New York.

Discussant: Diego Iturralde, Chief Director for Demography and Population Statistics at Statistics South Africa.

This book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and responsible use of data on global migration and international mobility. While migration remains a topic of great policy interest for governments around the world, there is a serious lack of reliable, timely, disaggregated and comparable data on it, and often insufficient safeguards to protect migrants’ information. Meanwhile, vast amounts of data about the movement of people are being generated in real time due to new technologies, but these have not yet been fully captured and utilized by migration policymakers, who often do not have enough data to inform their policies and programmes. The lack of migration data has been internationally recognized; the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration urges all countries to improve data on migration to ensure that policies and programmes are “evidence- based”, but does not spell out how this could be done. Read more about the book and the authors here.

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Please also find attached a flyer with a 20% discount code to purchase the book.