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MIG focuses on applying advanced data collection and estimation methods to quantify and better understand the trends, patterns, drivers, and consequences of different types of migration considering its interactions with the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
Migration is a key demographic component underlying population change, but it is also the most volatile and difficult to forecast, thus requiring innovative data and methods to circumvent the difficulty in estimating and predicting future migration. The novel approaches employed by the MIG Group allows for the production of comprehensive estimates of internal and international migration and its drivers at the global, national, and sub-national level. The group’s research provides comprehensive insight into the social, economic, and environmental drivers of migration considering changes and interactions between the drivers. In particular, the group focuses on investigating the direct and indirect pathways through which environmental changes influence internal and international migration and how the effects vary across geographical locations and population subgroups.
Staff
Raya Muttarak
Principal Research Scholar (MIG)
Dilek Yildiz
Research Scholar (MDM, MIG)
Raquel Guimaraes
Guest Research Scholar (MIG, EQU)
Guy Abel
Research Scholar (MIG)
News
24 January 2023
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected immigration?
New research finds a high variation between how pandemic mitigation measures affected immigration to different destination countries, from a slight increase to huge reductions.
24 November 2022
How COVID-19 school closures will affect inequalities in adult skills
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected learning to varying degrees in different countries. A new study sheds light on what this learning loss will mean for countries' human capital in the decades to come.
28 September 2022
Demography matters: the human life from birth to death
IIASA researchers participate in a seminar titled "Demography matters: the human life from birth to death", organized by Vienna Institute of Demography and Wittgenstein Centre.
Events
01 February 2023 Roma Tre University, Rome-Italy
Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione - Population Days 2023
Focus
28 November 2022
Standardizing migration data in Europe
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: Researchers illustrated the discrepancies in migration flow statistics across Europe to help standardize data and better understand migration patterns.
07 September 2022
The migration maze
To navigate the intricate intersection of climate change, migration, and urbanization, we need a holistic approach.
11 July 2022
Fertile feedback
IIASA research shows that increasing access to clean energy can rein in population growth, and so reduce future energy needs. Another study finds that falling fertility does not have to be bad news for economies.
Publications
Ghio, D., Bosco, C., Natale, F., Loeschner, J., & Goujon, A. (2023). Age patterns of net migration and urbanisation dynamics across European municipalities. Population, Space and Place e2599. 10.1002/psp.2599.
González-Leonardo, M., Potančoková, M. , Yildiz, D. , & Rowe, F. (2023). Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on immigration in receiving high-income countries. PLOS ONE 18 (1) e0280324. 10.1371/journal.pone.0280324.
Pagogna, R. & Sakdapolrak, P. (2023). How migration information campaigns shape local perceptions and discourses of migration in Harar city, Ethiopia. International Migration Review 10.1111/imig.13112.
Li, X., Muttarak, R. , & Hoffmann, R. (2022). Measuring global social vulnerability to natural hazards at the subnational level. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Özdemir, C., Reiter, C. , Yildiz, D. , & Goujon, A. (2022). Projections of adult skills and the effect of COVID-19. PLoS ONE 17 (11) e0277113. 10.1371/journal.pone.0277113.