Migration and Citizenship Data, Articles, and Research Resources

The number of refugees worldwide has nearly doubled in the past decade. Amid this rise in forced migration, the humanitarian community touts voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution to displacement crises. States are also pressuring refugees to return. The driving assumption is that refugee return is primarily a logistical obstacle and once refugees return to their home countries, they will resettle peacefull....

There are more than 250 million migrants today, representing the highest number since World War II, and possibly ever. Migrants leave their homes for diverse reasons. They may be seeking better livelihoods, running from famine or war, and escaping persecution and violence. Learn more about why migration matters, how it is measured and defined, and its effects on our globalized world, visit our Migration module: https....

Presenter: Kati Perry, USAID Methods of visualizing migration come in many shapes and sizes – parsetR (Bostock, Davies, and Russell) should be among them. I will walk through how I used the parsetR package to visualize county-level migration flows provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. More importantly, I'll explore why using parsetR allows us to draw additional insights from the data by situating the visualization ar....