Session 1.A: Improving Data on Refugees: Lessons from the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics

Vebjorn Aalandslid: History and overview of the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS)

Haoyi Chen: Defining refugees and asylum seekers for the purposes of statistical measurement

Piotr Juchno: Measuring the numbers and characteristics of refugees

Eric Jensen: Measuring living conditions and integration of refugees

Petra Nahmias: Improving the coordination and integration of systems for collecting data and producing official statistics on refugees

Session 1.B: Improving migration data for policy: Data innovation and capacity-building at national, regional and global levels

Frank Laczko, Susanne Melde and Jasper Dag Tjaden: 

Elisa Mosler Vidal and Karine Kuyumjyan: 

Liesl Riddle and Ghenadie Slobodeniuc: Towards global data on diaspora – lessons learnt from 150 mappings and potential for a common approach

Ann Singleton and Ogaba Ogabidu: 

Johannes Jutting: Building data capacities in developing countries

Session 1.C: Child and youth migrants: can existing data sources address their experiences and needs? How can we improve them?

Katherine Donato: A Global Mapping of Migrant and Displaced Children: Trends and Patterns

Tatiana Eremenko: Analysing child migrants’ legal trajectories - Evidence from France

Nicolas Perrin and Lionel Brackman: 

Mustafa Aslan: The Invisible Working Force of Minor Migrants - The Case of Syrian Children in Turkey

Session 1.D: Innovative uses of administrative data for a statistical purpose

Evangelos Sakkopoulos: Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data for Migration Policy

Victor Ng: Tackling an innovative data source on asylum: from a fragile approach to an agile approach

Jon Simmons: Using administrative data to improve knowledge of migration: new developments in UK

Session 1.E: Measuring immigrant integration: filling knowledge gaps and exploring new measurement approaches?

Rossalina Latcheva and David Reichel:

Kristian Tronstad: Accumulation of poor living conditions among immigrants in Norway

Kate Scrivens: Measurement of immigrants’ wellbeing

Xiaoyi Yan: Social outcomes of immigrants and refugees: data innovations, knowledge and gaps

Ramona Rischke: Social cohesion in times of forced displacement – the case of young people in Jordan

Session 1.F: Integrated administrative data as a source of information on migration

Peter Dolan: Challenges in measuring mobility at a subnational level

Ilka Steiner and Philippe Wanner: Creating a system of indicators of migration and integration based on linked administrative registers. The Swiss Experience

Gunter Brückner and Jan Eberle: Integrated data sets as a source of information on refugees: Linking Administrative Data and Survey Data

Session 1.G: Skills and Migration

Silke Uebelmesser: Presence of language-learning opportunities abroad and migration to Germany

Samuel Vezina: Projecting the literacy skills proficiency of the working-age population in a context of high immigration and increasing education levels

Louise Caron: The Best of the Best? Educational Selectivity, Economic Integration and Remigration

Session 1.H: Improving the integration of systems for collecting migration data: Innovative initiatives from National Statistical Offices (NSOs)

Antonio Argüeso Jimenez: 2021 population census and migration statistics in Spain. Why exchanging microdata

Jay Lindop: Using administrative data to meet the changing needs for migration statistics in the United Kingdom

Niels Ploug: Migration Statistics based on administrative data. Opportunities and Challenges. The Danish Case

Jason Schachter: Data Integration at the US Census Bureau: Recent Initiatives to Improve Estimates of International Migration

Session 2.A: Statistics on international labour migration: statistical standards, sampling issues, and methodology of global estimates

Vijay Verma: Statistical standards on international migrant workers

Hasibe Dedes: Sampling issues in covering citizens as well as migrants and refugees in LFS

Natalia Popova and Vijay Verma: ILO Global estimates on international migrant workers: methodology and challenges

Alcestis (Thetis) Abrera Mangahas: Contribution of the Philippine experience to the measurement of the migration phenomenon and its value added

Session 2.B: Measuring Migration in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Bela Hovy: Improving Migration Data in the Context of the 2030 Agenda: Recommendations from the Expert Group Meeting

Grace Bediako: SDGs Monitoring in Ghana: Strategies and Challenges

Ahmed A. Momani: Measurements of Jordanian Abroad and non Jordanians in Jordan

Sanonoi Buracharoen: Collection and compilation of statistics on migration-relevant SDG indicators in Thailand

Jason Schachter and Megan Benetsky: Measuring International Migration-Related SDGs with U.S. Census Bureau Data

Keiko Osaki-Tomita: An overview of the United Nations Development Account Project on Improving Migration Statistics

Session 2.C: The future census as a source of data on migrant populations

Lewis Dijkstra: How geo-referenced and regional data on migration can support better policy making

Niels Ploug: Migration statistics based on administrative data. Opportunities and challenges. The Danish case

Janusz Dygaszewicz: How geo-referenced data can improve statistics on migrants

David Thorogood and Adam Wronski: 

Session 2.D: Issues and challenges in measuring Female Genital Cutting in migration countries

Els Leye: Estimating the prevalence of FGM in Europe: lessons learned from a pilot project in Belgium and Italy

Armelle Andro: How to carry out a survey on FGM among the Second Generation

Livia Elisa Ortensi: Migrating with Special Needs? Projections of Flows of Migrant Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Toward Europe 2016–2030

Bettina Shell-Duncan and Stanley Yoder: Challenges of Estimating FGC Prevalence in the United States

Session 2.E: Migration between the United States, Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America (NCTA): Emerging Challenges and Prospects

Carla Pederzini and Silvia Giorguli: Measuring Immigration from North American and the NTCA in Mexico: Advantages and Data Limitations

Jeffrey Passel and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera: Migration to the United States from Mexico and NTCA: Trends, characteristics, estimated returns flows and data needs

Ernesto Rodriguez Chavez and Pablo Mateos: Measuring Central American transit migration through Mexico: Challenges and Trends

Claudia Masferrer: Return Migration to Mexico : Policy response, Measurement Challenges and Data Needs

Víctor M. García-Guerrero: International migration scenarios and future demographic changes in North America and NTCA

Session 2.F: Combining different datasets to measure migration

Tatiana Eremenko: Administrative trajectories of rejected asylum seekers in France

Florent Domergue: Combining French and international data to better understand the situation of immigrants and their descendants: the example of family structures

Melissa Siegel and Veronika Fajth: 

Session 2.G: Measuring Emigration

Gustavo Schifris: Length of stay abroad (or in Israel) and the measuring of emigration flows in Israel

Andreas Ette: Tracing Emigrating Populations from Highly-Developed Countries: Resident Registration Data as a Sampling Frame for International German Migrants

Silje Vatne Pettersen: Underestimation of emigration – an alternative approach

Amal Nour El-Deen and Taher Hassan Saleh: 

Session 2.H: Migration Statistics Challenges in Africa

Yannick Brice Kouogueng Yeyouomo: Analyzing the Impact of International Migration on Multidimensional Poverty in Sending Countries: Evidence from Cameroon

Abdoulaye Idrissa Boukary: Migration Measurement

Elvino Zacarias Nhantumbo: Proposal to measure international migrations and their impacts: the example of Mozambique

Daouda Aba Fané: Understanding migration through data

Samir Farid: Design of Specialized Surveys of International Migration: The MED-HIMS Experience

Session 3.A: Measuring trafficking in persons

Angela Me: Introductory remarks on SDG indicators and challenges to measure hidden phenomena

Kristiina Kangaspunta: Prevalence of human trafficking: measuring detected and non-detected trafficking victims

Michaëlle De Cock: Measuring trafficking for forced labour: survey methodology

Suze Hageman: National estimate on the number of trafficking victims: Multiple Systems Estimation (MSE)

Harry Cook: New ways to gather data on victims of trafficking

Session 3.B: Migrants in Vulnerable Situations and the Left Behind

Kolitha Wickramage and Jacqueline Weekers: Health Consequences of Migrant Workers and their “left-behind” children in the Global South

Vivianne Van Der Vorst: Using comprehensive migration surveys/the Displacement Tracking Matrix to gather data on vulnerable populations

Eliza Galos and Laura Bartolini:

Session 3.C: Data integration for measuring migration

Nino Ghvinadze: Synthesis of administrative data and big data technologies for improved migration data 

Jay Lindop: Integrating data for the long-term international migration estimates of the United Kingdom 

Enrico Tucci: Administrative data integration for measuring emigration flows: a new approach in the Italian case 

Antonio Argüeso Jimenez: UNECE task force on data integration for measuring migration

Session 3.D: Collecting Data on Mobile Populations: Migrant Flows and Recruitment Pathways to the GCC

Susan Godlonton: Pairing Administrative Datasets with Google Trends to Infer Migrant Flows and Sending Country Impacts

Rabia Malik: Using Mobile Phone Technology to Study Migrant Recruitment Processes in Pakistan

Randall Kuhn: A Large-Scale Survey of International Migrants from a Rural Area of Bangladesh

Bilesha Weeraratne: Tracing Informal Recruitment Relationships through Panel Surveys on Migrants

Session 3.E: Methodological innovations for estimating hard-to-count migrant populations

Georges Lemaître: A General Method for Estimating the Number of Unauthorised Immigrants, Using Standard Data Sources

Ben Wilson: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Informal Settlements in Italy: A Multidimensional Vulnerability Assessment

Jeffrey S. Passel and Enrico Marcelli: Measuring Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S.: Comparison of Individual and Aggregate-level Estimates from Alternative Methods

Neriman Can Ergan: Survey on Production of Forcibly Displaced Population (FDP) Statistics

Session 3.F: Sampling migrants comparatively: challenges and possibilities

Inmaculada Serrano: Surveying immigrants in Southern Europe: Spanish and Italian strategies in comparative perspective

Romana Careja: Pros and cons of register based statistical information in migration and integration research: examples from Denmark and Sweden

Kurt  Salentin and Hans Schmeets:

Marcela Cerrutti: Catching the elusive: studying Argentinean returnees from Spain

Audrey Lenoël: The challenge of measuring migration flows and stocks in developing countries: the case of Senegal

Session 3.G: Various dimensions of immigrant integration

Ognjen Obucina: Poverty among immigrants upon arrival in Sweden - a comparison by the type of migration

Lucy Jordan: Geography, gender and the migration trajectories of Indonesian and Filipino transnational parents

Matthieu Solignac: Homeownership of Immigrants in France: selection effects related to international migration flows

Salvatore Strozza: Integration of the second generation in Italy: data on school inclusion paths

Evi Nurvidya Arifin: Quantifying Diversity of Migrants in OBOR countries

Session 3.H: Migration Measurement I

Nimfa B. Ogena: Improving the Measurement of Migration in the Philippines

Avijit Mistri: Is the Migration from Indian Sundarban an Environmental Migration? An Approach to Sustainable Livelihood

Linus Garp: Mapping circular migration

Daniel Costa: Temporary Foreign Workers by the Numbers: New Estimates by Visa Classification

Session 4.A: Measuring emigration through population censuses in destination and origin countries

Haoyi Chen: Collecting emigration data through population censuses in countries of origin

Charlotte Levionnois: Measuring emigration through population censuses in destination countries

Tengiz Tsekvava: Emigration Statistics in Georgia

Edgar Vielma: Mexico as country of origin and host

Nadia Touihri: Tunisian emigration through censuses: pros and cons

Eric Jensen and Matthew Spence: Measuring Mexican emigration to the United States using the American Community Survey

Session 4.B: Communicating data on migration - Strategies to improve data literacy and data usage by decision makers and the general public

Andreas Perret: Migration Indicators for Switzerland: Is visualization just a nice way to share academic research or can it offer more?

Julia Urhausen: Engaging with citizens through statistics. Experience from Eurostat

Caterina Francesca Guidi: Measuring and communicating the real impact of migrants in the receiving societies: the example of health systems

Session 4.C: Measuring the migration-environment nexus: State of the Art

Francois Gemenne: Difficulties of providing quantitative estimates of environmental migration

Leal Kumar Dindoyal: Data sources on migration linked to the environment, data collection challenges and methodologies developed, including the Housing and Population Census

Etienne Piguet: Environmental migration surveys: toward canonical questions?

Robert Oakes: Opportunities and challenges of Agent-based modelling

Justin Ginnetti: Disaster displacement data, analysis, and methodologies in sudden and slow onset contexts

Petra Nahmias: Potential methodologies / approaches to improve data collection in contexts where conflict is intertwined with disasters

Julia Blocher: Integrating the human dimension in drought indices and early warning

Session 4.D: Measuring return and reintegration outcomes

Sonja Fransen: The socio-economic sustainability of refugee return: Insights from Burundi

Hervé Nicolle:  

Inmaculada Serrano: Understanding and measuring return through quantitative data

Stefanie Barratt: Developing a Return and Reintegration Index for UNHCR Afghanistan

Session 4.E: Migration Traceability

Dana Diminescu: Migration digital traces

Mathieu Jacomy, Quentin Lobbé, Dana Diminescu: e-Diasporas, Digital methods for the exploration, analysis , mapping and archiving  of e-diasporas

Charles Heller: Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier

Elian Carsenat: Mining personal names in the Big Data to map Diaporas

Benjamin Hounsell: Connected refugees data : refugees using mobile devices and the internet in East Africa

Léa Macias: Mapping a refugee camp: what Digitalization of the Humanitarian Organizations looks like in Zaatari, Jordan

Carleen Maitland: Refugee-Driven Data Management Systems

Session 4.F: Migration Measurement II

Lama Kabbanji: A mixed methods approach to analyse migration between Syria and Lebanon between 2006 and 2016

Michal Adamski: Estimates of real international long-term migration flows in 2009-2015 - description of the method

Feng Hou: How Temporary Are Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers?

Ukoji Vitalis Ukoji: Intra-Household Dynamics of International Migrant Remittance Utilisation among Remittance-Receiving Households, Southeast, Nigeria

Sabrina Juran and Jasper Dag Tjaden: 

Session 4.G: Improving Migration, Remittances and diaspora data: SDGs and the Global Compact on Migration

Rainer Muenz: Migration and Demographics, latest trends

Thomas Buettner: New methodologies for including migration in demographic projections

Flore Gubert: Contributions of migration and remittances in Africa

Ann Singleton: Handbook for Improving the Production and Use of Migration Data for Development

Lisa Anderson: Collecting migration and remittance data through household surveys

Session 4.H: Master Class

Douglas Massey: Designing and Implementing Migration Surveys

Session 5A: International Students and Temporary Skilled Workers: Comparing Data from around the Globe

Neil G. Ruiz: Origins and Destinations of Foreign Students in the United States

Massimiliano Tani Bertuol: PhD Labour Market for Australians and International Students in Australia

Rajika Bhandari: Shifting National Landscapes and Global Student Mobility: How are the Top Host Countries Faring?

Jasmine Trang Ha: Longitudinal Follow-up of International Students in the U.S. and Canada based on National Surveys of College Graduates

Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi: 

Session 5.B: Return and Onward Migration: What do we know? And what we would like to know?

Andrea Monti: Outmigration patterns of foreign born residents from Sweden 1990-2012

Corrado Bonifazi and Angela Paparusso: 

Amparo González-Ferrer: The role of reasons for (initial) migration in shaping return migration among Sub-Saharan immigrants in Europe

Siddartha Aradhya, Jeffrey Neilson and Christopher Smith: 

Audrey Lenoël, Inmaculada Serrano and Amparo González-Ferrer: 

Session 5.C: Investigating the Impacts of Displacement and Return in East Africa

Craig Loschmann: Considering the benefits of hosting refugees: Evidence of refugee camps influencing local labor market activity and economic welfare in Rwanda

Veronika Fajth: Is Local Social Cohesion Influenced by Hosting Refugees?

Katrin Marchand: 

Sonja Fransen: The Impact of Refugee Return on Land Access and Food Security

Session 5.D: Forced Migration within state borders: the challenges and opportunities of understanding internal displacement

Natalia Baal: Making data useful: collaboration, profiling and durable solutions

Justin Ginnetti: Overview of existing data on internal displacement and challenges at the global level

Vibeke Nielsen: The IDP sub-group of the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics

Kimberly Roberson: Challenges in obtaining data on IDPS at the operational level

Linus Bengtsson: The data revolution in IDP statistics: the potential of big data and new technologies

Session 5.E: Mobilizing big data to measure highly skilled migration: lessons and challenges

Mathias Czaika: Assessing the globalisation of scientific mobility from bibliometric data, 1970–2014

Lama Kabbanji and Sorana Toma: 

Hector Cebolla-Boado and Yasemin Soysal: Which Institutional Configuration is More Efficient to Attract International Students? A combined use of university-level administrative data

Bogdan State: The migration of professionals to the US through LinkedIn geo-localized career data

Session 5.F: Data and analysis on migrant integration at the local level

Paolo Veneri: The integration of migrants across OECD regions

Anne Clemenceau, Piotr Juchno, Adam Wronski: Infra-national data on migrant integration: case of EU-LFS and beyond

Fabrizio Natale: Residential segregation of migrants in EU cities: empirical evidence and drivers

Giuseppe Gabrielli: Young foreigners and school

Session 5.G: Migration data and policies

David Ingleby: A new strand on Health for the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX): results from the first round

Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel: Immigration in Brazil: a statistical challenge in the 21st century

Martín Koolhaas: Attitudes towards Immigration in Uruguay