Tracking global refugee movements with the Migration Data Portal
In a previous news item, we reported
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news/explore-dashboard-maps-ukraines-refugee-situation]
on the United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Operational Data
Portal and their work tracking refugees fleeing Ukraine. While much
media attention is on this critical situation, people fleeing conflict
remains a global concern and the plight of refugees from places such
as Afghanistan continues to be tracked by portals relying on open
data.

One such portal is the Migration Data Portal
[https://www.migrationdataportal.org/], which aims to help policy
makers, national statistics officers, journalists and other interested
parties. It provides a single point of access to migration statistics
and other reliable information on migration. Launched in December
2017, the portal is managed and developed by the International
Organization for Migration’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre
(GMDAC) [http://gmdac.iom.int] with the support of the Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU) [https://www.eiu.com/n/].

The portal provides statistics on migration visualised in a helpful
dashboard
[https://www.migrationdataportal.org/dashboard/compare-indicators]
while also giving valuable insights into gaps in existing data sets.
In one blog post, they introduce Nujeen
[https://www.migrationdataportal.org/blog/visible-advocacy-missing-data-migrants-and-persons-disabilities],
a Kurdish Syrian refugee with cerebral palsy, who advocates for more
data collection on refugees with disabilities—a notable gap in
information collected on refugees globally.

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Publication Date/Time
2022-04-29T10:00:00+00:00
An open data portal with statistics and insights on refugees