Migration data

Migration research relies on a wide variety of data sources. This topic deals with  the types of data that are used for migration research purposes and beyond. It includes critical reflections and discussion about the construction of quantitative and qualitative categories, measures and indicators in migration studies. Literature discussing the challenges and biases of data collection and analysis is also included in this topic. 

Studies listed under this category include literature on migration statistics and datasets, migration information systems, migration estimates, as well as determinants and indicators of migration.

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The hidden component in census-derived migration data: Assessing its size and distribution

Authors Beryl Nicholson
Year 1990
Journal Name Demography
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4 Journal Article

Assessing the contribution of migration related policies to equity in access to healthcare in European countries. A multilevel analysis

Authors Wiebke Huebner, Jenny Phillimore, Hannah Bradby, ...
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 2
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5 Journal Article

Assessing Immigration Scenarios for the European Union in 2030 Relevant, realistic and reliable?

Authors Eduardo Acostamadiedo, Ravenna Sohst, Jasper Tjaden, ...
Description
There is increasing policy interest in the European Union to better plan and prepare for future migration flows. This is reflected in the growing number of reports that use expert knowledge to anticipate migration trends and develop migration scenarios. In this report, the IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), in partnership with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), examines the potential and limitations of using expert opinion to predict future migration. This pilot study combines two approaches, namely, migration scenarios and Delphi expert surveys, to assess the implications and uncertainty of immigration scenarios for the European Union in 2030. The results demonstrate the high level of uncertainty and disagreement among experts about how basic drivers of migration – such as multilateralism and economic convergence – might shape future immigration to the European Union. While expert advice is useful for stimulating strategic, long-term thinking and discussion, the results highlight the limitations of using experts to improve operational preparedness.
Year 2020
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8 Report

MIPEX (Migrant Integration Policy Index)

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Year 2014
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11 Data Set

Integration policies across the Atlantic: How far behind is Europe, how far ahead

Authors Thomas Huddleston
Year 2011
Book Title International Perspectives: Integration and Inclusion
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12 Book Chapter

Child migration

Authors Gabriella SANCHEZ
Year 2018
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14 Book

Note on some problems in interpreting migration data from the 1960 Census of population

Authors Ann R. Miller
Year 1969
Journal Name Demography
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16 Journal Article

MIPEX2020

Authors Solano Giacomo, Huddleston Thomas
Description
The book illustrates the results of the new edition of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX). MIPEX is a unique tool which measures policies to integrate migrants in countries across five continents, including all EU Member States (including the UK), other European countries (Albania, Iceland, North Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine), Asian countries (China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, and South Korea), North American countries (Canada, Mexico and US), South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile), and Australia and New Zealand in Oceania. MIPEX analyses integration policies in the following eight areas of integration: Labour market mobility; Family reunification; Education; Political participation; Permanent residence; Access to nationality; Anti-discrimination; and Health. To cite: Solano, Giacomo & Huddleston, Thomas (2020). Migrant Integration Policy Index 2020. Barcelona/ Brussels: CIDOB and MPG. ISBN: 978-84-92511-83-9
Year 2020
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18 Report

The MIPEX Health strand: a longitudinal, mixed-methods survey of policies on migrant health in 38 countries

Authors David Ingleby, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict, Thomas Huddleston, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name European Journal of Public Health
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19 Journal Article

Legal Frameworks for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals

Authors Thomas Huddleston, Jan Niessen
Year 2018
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20 Book

Migrant Integration Policy Index 2015

Authors Thomas Huddleston, Özge Bilgili, Anne-Linde Joki, ...
Year 2015
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21 Book

Research-Policy Dialogues in the European Union

Authors Marthe Achtnich, Andrew Geddes
Year 2015
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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22 Book Chapter

Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX)

Description
The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) is a useful tool that measures policies to integrate migrants in all EU Member States, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA. 167 policy indicators have been developed to create a rich, multi-dimensional picture of migrants’ opportunities to participate in society. The index is a tool to evaluate and compare what governments are doing to promote the integration of migrants in the countries analysed.
Year 2004
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24 Data Set

Nepal

Authors K. C. Bal Kumar
Year 2008
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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26 Journal Article

Chapter 9. Political Participation For Migrants: The Mipex Results

Authors Florence Delmotte, Dirk Jacobs, Barbara Herman
Year 2018
Book Title Legal Frameworks for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals
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28 Book Chapter

A Comparison of Migrant Integration Policies via Mixture of Matrix-Normals

Authors Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Francesco Amato, Filomena Maggino, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
Citations (WoS) 1
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29 Journal Article

Immigration and internal migration “flight”: A California case study

Authors William H. Frey
Year 1995
Journal Name Population and Environment
Citations (WoS) 46
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30 Journal Article

Evaluating the relative accuracy and significance of net migration estimates

Authors Leroy O. Stone
Year 1967
Journal Name Demography
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31 Journal Article

Migrant Integration Policy Index

Authors Thomas Huddleston
Year 2015
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32 Book

Advancing knowledge on international migration : data and research needs

Authors Philippe FARGUES
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Year 2018
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35 Report

The Dynamics between Integration Policies and Outcomes: a Synthesis of the Literature

Authors Özge Bilgili, Thomas Huddleston, Anne-Linde Joki, ...
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Year 2015
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36 Report

Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index (CITRIX)

Description
This the Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index (CITRIX) mainly builds on selected and partly modified indicators of the Migration and Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) strand on the Access to Nationality. It also uses the citizenship indicators of Fitzgerald et al. (2014) as well as the resources offered by DEMIG and GLOBALCIT as further cornerstones for data collection. Covering a total of 23 OECD countries from 1980 to 2014 (805 country-year observations), CITRIX zooms in on four fundamental components of citizenship regimes relating to the acquisition of nationality by immigrants and their children: (1) the residence duration requirement for ordinary naturalization; (2) the toleration of dual citizenship in naturalization; (3) further naturalization requirements, namely language and citizenship tests as well as economic and criminal record condition; and (4) the strength of jus soli.
Year 2014
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37 Data Set

The New Migratory Routes of Europe? Polish and Romanian Emigrations in a Comparative Historical Perspective

Authors Aurore Flipo
Year 2009
Journal Name Romanian Journal of European Studies
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38 Journal Article

Migration Integration Policy Index

Principal investigator Migration Policy Group (MPG) ()
Description
MIPEX is a unique tool to compare and evaluate governments’ integration policies in all EU Member States and several non-EU countries (Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA). 167 policy indicators have been developed to create a rich, multi-dimensional picture of migrants’ opportunities to participate in society. The index is a useful tool to evaluate and compare what governments are doing to promote the integration of migrants in all the countries analysed.
Year 2007
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A Bayesian approach to estimate annual bilateral migration flows for South America using census data

Authors Andrea Aparicio Castro, Andrea Aparicio Castro, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, ...
Year 2024
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41 Journal Article

CrossMigration policy indicators

Authors Migration Policy Group
Description
In the framework of the EU-funded project CrossMigration, the Migration Policy group produced a set of indicators to comparative analyse migration and integration policies, similar to the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX). The set of indicators allows researchers and policy makers to compare policies in different areas of migration and integration policies and different countries on that. To allow for a cross-country comparative and longitudinal analysis, the dataset included 39 countries (EU28 and other European countries) for 2014 and 2019. The indicators cover eight policy areas: Family reunion; Citizenship; Permanent residence; Labour market; Education; Political participation; Anti-discrimination; Health.
Year 2019
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42 Data Set

Relations among internal, continental, and transatlantic migration in late imperial Austria

Authors Annemarie Steidl, Engelbert Stockhammer, Hermann Zeitlhofer
Year 2007
Journal Name Social Science History
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43 Journal Article

Differences in population estimates between an administrative system and census: The case of Israel

Authors Ahmad S. Hleihel
Year 2006
Journal Name Mathematical Population Studies
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44 Journal Article

'Burning without fire' in Sweden : the paradox of the state's attempt to safeguard deportees' psychosocial wellbeing

Authors Daniela DEBONO
Year 2017
Book Title Zana VATHI and Russell KING (eds), Return migration and psychosocial wellbeing : discourses, policy-making and outcomes for migrants and their families, Abingdon : New York : Routledge, 2017, Routledge research in race and ethnicity, pp. 129-148
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45 Book Chapter

Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus

Authors David De Coninck, Giacomo Solano, Willem Joris, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name International Journal of Comparative Sociology
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46 Journal Article

Image of Immigrants in Media: Thought- provoking Effects

Principal investigator Leen d'Haenens (Coordonator), Rozane De Cock (Partner), Koen Matthijs (Partner), Jacinthe Mazzocchetti (Partner), François Heinderyckx (Partner), Kevin Smets (Partner)
Description
Governments, news media and public opinion in Europe are increasingly preoccupied with refugees seeking access to Western Europe. Public opinion is split (if not negative) and generally un- or misinformed (amalgamation across ‘groups’ being one of the problems), and integration policies cannot respond to the needs (see cross-country MIPEX results). This project aims to investigate the dynamic interplay between media representations of the current non-EU immigrant situation with a specific emphasis on the refugee situation on the one hand and the governmental and societal (re)actions on the other. The IM²MEDIATE project combines four complementary multi-stakeholder group perspectives: 1. Analysis of news media content and journalism culture. 2. Study of societal reactions of the general public. 3. Study of push/pull factors in migration from a refugee perspective. 4. Policy analysis into national governmental (re)actions. It is the project’s ultimate goal to inventory the multiple public, policy and media voices heard in Belgium on this crucial issue, while learning from practices abroad (with a focus on Sweden), and to formulate recommendations towards a more encouraging integration policy, while lowering anti-immigration and anti-refugee sentiment.
Year 2016
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47 Project

Cost-Benefit Analysis for a Quinquennial Census: The 2016 Population Census of South Africa

Authors Bruce D. Spencer, Julian May, Steven Kenyon, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Official Statistics
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48 Journal Article

The integration of venezuelans in Colombia in the fields of health and education

Authors Lisa Alexandra Pinto, Paola Baracaldo Amaya, Felipe Aliaga Saez
Year 2019
Journal Name ESPACIO ABIERTO
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49 Journal Article

Chapter 4. Exploring Regimes Of Immigrant Integration: Clustering Countries On The Basis Of The Mipex Data

Authors Tim Reeskens, Marc Hooghe
Year 2018
Book Title Legal Frameworks for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals
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50 Book Chapter

MIGRATION DATA - A COMMENT

Authors RL MORRILL
Year 1983
Journal Name REVIEW OF PUBLIC DATA USE
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51 Journal Article

Political and Labour Market Inclusion of Migrants in Finland

Authors Maija Jäppinen, Aino Saarinen
Book Title Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration
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52 Book Chapter

Census - time series of selected indicators

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Year 1981
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53 Data Set

Analyzing Educational Integration: Policies to Attend Migrant Pupils in Spain Based on Two Case Studies (ATAL and EBE)

Authors Antonia Olmos Alcaraz, Nazaret Lastres Aguilar
Year 2022
Citations (WoS) 3
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55 Journal Article

Birthplaces, migration and identity in the 2001 census for Ukraine

Authors Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Year 2016
Journal Name HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
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57 Journal Article

Economic Freedom, Migration, and Income Change in the United States: 1995 to 2010

Authors J. Matthew Shumway, James A. Davis
Year 2016
Journal Name The Professional Geographer
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58 Journal Article

Circular migration in Georgia

Authors Irina BADURASHVILI
Description
Circular migration of population in the most simple way be identified as a ?? process of leaving and then returning to one?s place of origin? (Newland, 2009, p.6). As experts note, this process is not new, but ?? it is newly on the policy agenda of governments? (Newland, 2009, p.6), as it causes remarkable challenges for both donor?s and destination?s countries. This concerns Georgia as well. Emigration is a new phenomenon for Georgia. It first manifested itself at the beginning of 1990s by the large-scale emigration flows for permanent residence in other countries triggered by war and economic crisis in Georgia. Emigration patterns later transformed into temporary migration flows of working age population that left Georgia to have higher earnings abroad. Hence, as a typical post-Soviet country Georgia was seriously affected by out-migration after its independence in 1991. The last 2002 population census in Georgia registered a drop of some 20 percent compared to the population registered in the 1989 census (State Department for Statistics of Georgia, 2003).
Year 2012
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60 Report

Census data issues for epidemiology and health risk assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit

Authors David Briggs, Daniela Fecht, Kees de Hoogh
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
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61 Journal Article

Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: A Cross-National Survey of the 2000 Census Round

Authors Ann Morning
Book Title Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity
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62 Book Chapter

‘Inside Out’: The Politics of Enumerating the Nation by Ethnicity

Authors Victor Thompson, Tahu Kukutai
Book Title Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity
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63 Book Chapter

The Making of Racial and Ethnic Categories: Official Statistics Reconsidered

Authors Victor Piché, Patrick Simon, Amélie A. Gagnon
Book Title Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity
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66 Book Chapter

Bolivia : diaspora and emigration policies

Authors Alfonso HINOJOSA GORDONOVA, Leonardo DE LA TORRE AVILA
Description
Is immigration on the Bolivian political agenda? If we only analyze the official census figures and focus on laws, decrees and public policy initiatives, we should probably answer ‘no’. However, as we shall see, we have to consider another reality after integrating various statistical estimates that increase official numbers and after acknowledging the work of some governmental departments as well as non-governmental social research and advocacy organizations and Bolivian migrants associations abroad. To understand the difference in the response to migration questions in Bolivia, we now present the policy and institutional foundations on which the immigration debate is held in Bolivia. Some public policy, civil right defense and research initiatives have been proposed and established, but these initiatives would be best judged after considering how much political and economic support they will receive in future.
Year 2014
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68 Report

Ethnic and Linguistic Categories in Quebec: Counting to Survive

Authors Victor Piché
Book Title Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity
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69 Book Chapter

Administrative Data Quality: Investigating Record-Level Address Accuracy in the Northern Ireland Health Register

Authors Brian Foley, Ian Shuttleworth, David Martin
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Official Statistics
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71 Journal Article

The end of the line: has rapid transit contributed to the spatial diffusion of HIV in one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas?

Authors E Wood, K Chan, JSG Montaner, ...
Year 2000
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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74 Journal Article

Commitment to Development Index

Description
The Commitment to Development Index focuses policies that benefit people living in poorer nations. It ranks 27 of the world’s richest countries (for the period 2003-2018) on these policies. The Index comprises seven components: aid (both quantity, as a share of gross national income, and quality), trade, finance, migration, environment, security, and technology. Each component is underpinned by a series of indicators of policy effectiveness in these areas. A country receives points for policies and actions that support poor nations in their efforts to build prosperity, good government, and security. The scores across these seven components are averaged for a final score. The migration component related to migration policy is composed of: 1) an indicator on international conventions 2) indicator on integration policies taken from the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX), developed by the Migration Policy Group (MPG). The indicator on international conventions assesses the extent to which countries have ratified international conventions aiming to protect migrants. Three conventions are considered: 1949 Convention concerning Migration for Employment (No. 97); 1975 Convention concerning Migrations in Abusive Conditions and the Promotion of Equality of Opportunity and Treatment of Migrant Workers (No. 143); 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.
Year 2018
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76 Data Set

Jordanian Emigration: An Analysis of Migration Data

Authors Ahmad A. Hammouda
Year 1980
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 2
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79 Journal Article

City Directories as Sources of Migration Data

Authors Sidney Goldstein
Year 1954
Journal Name American Journal of Sociology
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81 Journal Article

Gender and the "Laws of Migration" A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century Patterns

Authors J. Trent Alexander, Annemarie Steidl
Year 2012
Journal Name Social Science History
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82 Journal Article

Interstate migration of the US poverty population: Immigration “pushes” and welfare magnet “pulls”

Authors William H. Frey, Kao-Lee Liaw, Yu Xie, ...
Year 1996
Journal Name Population and Environment
Citations (WoS) 31
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83 Journal Article

UNITED-STATES AND CANADIAN MIGRATION DATA - REPLY

Authors RE BILSBORROW, JS AKIN
Year 1983
Journal Name REVIEW OF PUBLIC DATA USE
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84 Journal Article

Is there really a retreat from multiculturalism policies? New evidence from the multiculturalism policy index

Authors Keith Banting, Will Kymlicka
Year 2013
Journal Name COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN POLITICS
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85 Journal Article

Effect of census errors on the measurement of net migration

Authors C. Horace Hamilton
Year 1966
Journal Name Demography
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86 Journal Article

The stability of ethnic identity in England and Wales 2001-2011

Authors Ludi Simpson, Stephen Jivraj, James Warren
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
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88 Journal Article

Exploratory Assessment of the Census of Pakistan Using Demographic Analysis

Authors Asif Wazir, Anne Goujon
Year 2021
Journal Name JOURNAL OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS
Citations (WoS) 1
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89 Journal Article

SLOVENIANS IN SERBIA. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETHNODEMOGRAPHIC STUDY

Authors Aleksandar Knezevic
Year 2012
Journal Name ANNALES-ANALI ZA ISTRSKE IN MEDITERANSKE STUDIJE-SERIES HISTORIA ET SOCIOLOGIA
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90 Journal Article

Migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Turkey

Authors Tuğba Acar, Deniz Karcı Korfalı
Book Title Between Mobility and Migration
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91 Book Chapter

Australia: First Results of the 1991 Census

Authors Hilary P.M. Winchester
Year 1994
Journal Name Espace populations sociétés
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92 Journal Article

Recent net alien immigration to the United States: Its impact on population growth and native fertility

Authors Charles B. Keely, Ellen Percy Kraly
Year 1978
Journal Name Demography
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93 Journal Article

UNITED-STATES AND CANADIAN MIGRATION DATA - A COMMENT

Authors RA NAKOSTEEN
Year 1983
Journal Name REVIEW OF PUBLIC DATA USE
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94 Journal Article

BRAZILIANS AND THE 1990 UNITED-STATES CENSUS - IMMIGRANTS, ETHNICITY, AND THE UNDERCOUNT

Authors ML MARGOLIS
Year 1995
Journal Name Human Organization
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95 Journal Article

Mobilising for pure prestige? Challenging Federal census ethnic categories in the USA (1850-1940)

Authors P Schor
Year 2005
Journal Name International Social Science Journal
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96 Journal Article

International migration on the Brazilian Amazon in the Demographic Census 2010

Authors Jonatha Rodrigo de Oliveira Lira, Daniel Esteban Quiroga
Year 2016
Journal Name NOVOS CADERNOS NAEA
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97 Journal Article

Migration data using social media a European perspective

Authors S. Spyratos, I. Weber, M. Vespe, ...
Year 2018
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98 Report

NEW SOURCES OF CANADIAN SMALL AREA MIGRATION DATA

Authors D NORRIS
Year 1983
Journal Name REVIEW OF PUBLIC DATA USE
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100 Journal Article
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