Selected Resources


 

Snapshot: Global Migration

New York Times interactive graphic on global migration. It's from 2007, but still a great way to visualize worldwide migration patterns and remittance flows.

Immigration Explorer Interactive Map

From the New York Times series, "Remade in America: the Newest Immigrants and their Impact," March 2009.  Select a foreign-born group to see where they settled across the United States, from 1880-2000. The map shows both percent and number of foreign born, by county.
This is an astonishing mapping of immigration to the US!  Check it out--for example, you can easily see that there are about the same number of people of Mexican origin in Cook County, Illinlois (the Chicago area) as in all of Arizona.

 Photographing the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence

Ignacio Evangelista's "The Line on the Map" captures the stark, literal division between nations. CityLab June 2015


UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers & Members of Their Families.

Adopted by United Nations General Assembly resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990 and entered into force in 2003. "The treaty is meant to ensure minimum protections to all migrants, focusing on ensuring freedom from discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, sex, religion or any other status, in all aspects of work, including in hiring, conditions of work, and promotion, and in access to housing, health care and basic services. It also ensures freedom from arbitrary expulsion from their country of employment and protection from violence, physical injury, threats and intimidation by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions. The treaty recognizes that legal migrants have the legitimacy to claim more rights than undocumented migrants, but it stresses that undocumented migrants must see their fundamental human rights respected. Many nations have signed, but most are countries of origin of migrants. No Western migrant-receiving State has ratified the Convention, even though the majority of migrants live in Europe and North America. Other important receiving countries, such as Australia, Arab states of the Persian Gulf and India have not ratified the Convention either. This means that the treaty is not in effect where the majority of migrants actually live and work." (Summary source.)


WHERE WE'RE FROM

By International Organization for Migration. Interactive app tracks migrants around the world. This application is now being hosted by IOM.int. Its endlessly fascinating to explore where we're from. The underlying data for the map published by the UN DESA in 2015.


This incredibly handy map, based on estimates from the UN Population Division, shows the immigrant and emigrant populations by country of origin and destination.


Get all the latest and historical facts and figures on immigrants and immigration in the United States in this handy resource. April 2016


Map Shows How Large Europe's Refugee Crisis Really Is

Data visualization uses U.N. statistics to show the recent mass movement of people to Europe. Oct 2015


Migration Flows-Europe (IOM)187,651 arrivals to EUROPE 2016
183,017 by sea 
4,634 by land

1,244 dead/missing - Mediterranean 2016

 


Securing the Southwest Border (2001-2012) Interactive map shows the year-by-year changes in the number of agents on the border, apprehensions, would-be crossers turned back, and crossers seen or detected but not caught. AZ Central


Low Drone: The Transnational Hopper

Check out this amazing spoof of border security technology. Filmmaker Alex Rivera created an online drone that you can 'drive', based on a lowrider car...!!!