ILRGL 4367/6367: Migration and Mobility (Fall 2025): Finding Statistics

The Department of Homeland Security provides statistics on legal permanent residents, naturalized citizens, refugees, and immigration law enforcement.

A portal from the Migration Policy Institute.

-- Historical Arrivals Broken Down by Region (1975 – Present)
-- Cumulative Arrivals by State for Refugee and SIV (Special Immigrant Visa) - Afghan
-- Cumulative Arrivals by State for Refugee and SIV – Iraqi
-- SIV Arrivals by Nationality by Month (Posted after the 5th of the following month)
-- Top 10 Languages Spoken by Arrived Refugees (Posted Quarterly)
-- Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality (Posted after the 5th of the following month)
-- Geographic Mapping of Arrivals

Overview of the range of statistics that the U.S. Census Bureau collects, produces, and publishes about geographic mobility and migration.

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. The Portal was launched in December 2017 and is managed and developed by IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), with the guidance of its Advisory Board, and was supported in its conception by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

The OECD manages several databases dedicated to International Migration on migration and flows and stocks in OECD countries, labor market characteristics of immigrants in OECD countries, and some data for non-OECD countries. This web site contains archived data through January 2024. To search the most recent OECD data, please visit https://www.oecd.org/en/data.html.

Global matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning the period 1960-2000, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born concept.

MIPEX measures migrant integration policies in all European Union Member States plus Norway, Switzerland, Canada and the USA up to 31 May 2010, using 148 policy indicators.

Data and information on migration in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB).

The Mesoamerican Migration Project (MMP) is a continuation and expansion of the Mexican Migration Project which was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to further our understanding of the complex process of Mexican migration to the United States. The Mesoamerican Migration Project collects and analyzes data on migration from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to the United States. he data collected has been compiled in a comprehensive database that is available to the public free of charge for research and educational purposes through this web-site.

LAMP began operations in 1998 with a set of surveys conducted in Puerto Rico. It expanded later with fieldwork carried out in Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Peru, and Guatemala. Ecuador is the most recent country in which we conducted fieldwork Spring 2012. In addition, a modified version of the LAMP survey was implemented in Paraguay to study migration from that country to Argentina.