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Human migration, the permanent change of residence by an individual or group. It can be within a country or international in nature. It can also be voluntary or forced. Intermediate between those two categories are voluntary migrations of refugees fleeing war, famine, or natural disaster.
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).
The World Migration Report 2020 explains how migration relates to the global economic, social, and technological shifts affecting many high-priority policy issues.
Feb 28, 2019 · February 28, 2019. • 4 min read. Migration is defined as “movement from one country, place or locality to another.” Ever since the earliest humans began to spread from Africa,...
Dec 16, 2022 · By. Anusha Natarajan, Mohamad Moslimani and Mark Hugo Lopez. The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020, meaning that 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Who is an international migrant? For statistical purposes, the United Nations defines an international migrant as any person who has changed his or her country of...
Dec 1, 2021 · The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration and mobility throughout the world....
