DSOC 4940: Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multispecies Examination: Data

Pairs of Countries have signed hundreds of Bilateral Labor Agreements (BLAs) to regulate the flow of migrants between countries. Unlike Bilateral Investment Treaties or Preferential Trade Agreements, however, BLAs have received little attention from social scientists or legal scholars. We believe this is in large part because information on the existence of these agreements has been hard to come by. To address this problem, we have engaged in a multi-year project to try and identify every BLA that has been signed from 1945 to 2015.

Key datasets and resources published by the Office of Immigration Statistics.

The Census Bureau collects, produces, and publishes a range of statistics on geographic mobility and migration using multiple data sources. For more information about these data sources and the types of data they produce on geographic mobility, see the Surveys/Programs page.

The MACIMIDE Global Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset charts the rules that existed in near all states of the world since 1960 with regard to the loss or renunciation of citizenship after a citizen of a respective state voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another state.

The Portal aims to serve as a unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally. The site is designed to help policy makers, national statistics officers, journalists and the general public interested in the field of migration to navigate the increasingly complex landscape of international migration data, currently scattered across different organisations and agencies.

Movebank is a free online platform that helps researchers manage, share, analyze and archive animal movement data. Movebank is hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) in coordination with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the Ohio State University and the University of Konstanz.

The database contains data on foreign and foreign-born population, migration flows, naturalisations and labour market outcomes.

The UN’s refugee agency is keeping track of daily refugee movements through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, and farther along into Europe. The downloadable data and interactive map cover migrations since October 2015.

The aim of the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) project is to provide a set of sophisticated quantitative indices to measure immigration policies in all OECD countries and for the time period 1980-2010. By means of this new dataset the causes and effects of immigration policies will be studied more systematically.

The dataset presents estimates of international migrant by age, sex and origin. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.