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An essential guide for those seeking to navigate the complexities of improving migration data, Measuring Global Migration offers a comprehensive roadmap to understanding and improving the quality of data in this field. With clear and practical insights, the authors present the challenges inherent in collecting, analysing, and interpreting migration data, providing an invaluable tool for students, researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Carlos Vargas-Silva, Professor of Migration Studies, University of Oxford, UK Measuring Global Migration is an essential read, which explores the use of new and non-traditional data for understanding contemporary migration. It offers students and researchers concrete examples, and a balanced view of the potential benefits of using big data, as well as highlighting the ethical concerns and limitations involved, making it a comprehensive guide for all those in the migration field. Dr. Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder of the GovLab (New York) and the Data Tank This book engages most effectively with the contemporary challenges of using migration data for policy. Written in an accessible style, the authors provide an expert guide to data challenges as well as policy needs and gaps. An important and up-to-date resource for policy makers, academics and journalists, this will also be an invaluable addition to student reading lists. Ann Singleton, Reader in Migration Policy, University of Bristol, UK. School for Policy Studies Measuring Global Migration is an absolutely essential piece of reading material for any migration scholar interested in understanding the value and strategic importance of the collection, analysis and use of migration data as a means to enhance effective migration governance. In a world where various versions of the truth prevail which are all competing for relevance when addressing an emotive topic like migration, ensuring that migration data is well collected and defined and communicated effectively is critically important. This volume is highly relevant not only to migration scholars but also government officials, academia and civil society involved in addressing the management of migration and development. Diego Iturralde, Chief Director of Demography at Statistics South Africa and former co-chair of UN expert group into International Migration Statistics, 2018-2022 (alongside the series editor), South Africa

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Frank Laczko is former Director of the IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre in Berlin. Prior to this, he was Head of Research at IOM HQ in Geneva. He was the Co-Chair of the UN Expert Group on International Migration Statistics (2018–2022). He has acted as an adviser to several international agencies including WHO, UNHCR, ILO and OECD. His current research focuses on migration from and to China. He has published extensively on a wide range of migration topics and is also an expert on social policy issues relating to poverty, labour markets and ageing. He is the co-author of Changing Work and Retirement (1991). Elisa Mosler Vidal has worked in migration policy and research for eight years, most recently for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) at its Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin. There she led work focusing on migration data for development and data for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has authored numerous research reports and technical guidance documents on migration and co-authored IOM’s Migration Data Strategy (2020–2025). She is currently working towards a DPhil in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, exploring the links between migration, development and health. Marzia Rango has over ten years of experience working in migration data, research and public policy. She is currently a Migration and Human Mobility Specialist at the UN Operations and Crisis Centre (UNOCC) in the UN Secretariat in New York. Previously, she led work on responsible data innovation and data capacity building for governments at the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Berlin. She was the co-convenor of the Big Data for Migration Alliance (BD4M) and is co-editor of Harnessing Data Innovation for Migration Policy (IOM, 2023) and Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean (IOM, 2020).

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