Migration Math | Stats + Short Stories Episode 179

Stats + Stories

• Episode: Migration Math | Stats + Short Stories Episode 179
• Website: Stats + Stories
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• Duration: 00:27:13
• Published: 2021-03-11 15:00

As COVID has ravaged the globe, it's overshadowed another ongoing global story of migration, according to new data from the International Organization for Migration migrants make up 3.5%. of the total global population with the top five countries of origin being India and Mexico China, Russia and Syria that information and more can be found in the IOM 2020 world migration report, that's the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Marie McAuliffe. Dr. Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research Division at IOM headquarters in Geneva and Editor of IOM’s flagship World Migration Report. She is an international migration specialist with more than 20 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior official and researcher.Marie has researched, published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration and is on the editorial boards of scientific journals International Migration and Migration Studies, and is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. She was the 2018 recipient of the Charles Price Prize in demography for outstanding doctoral research in migration studies. Her Research interests include Forced migration Migrant decision-making Migrant smuggling Media representations of migration Enhancing public confidence in migration Public policy research partnerships The views expressed in this podcast are those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect those of the IOM or its member states.