South-South migration flows

The book discusses migration to poor countries, or South-South migration (SSM), a phenomenon that may be surprising to many students. The OECD has a good post discussing this terminology and trends in "SSM" at https://oecd-development-matters.org/2018/12/17/understanding-south-south-migration/.

Migration and refugee data now in FRED

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, now has migration and refugee data in their database. FRED has more then 400 data series from the World Development Indicators. Data can be easily download, plotted and mapped using GeoFRED.

https://news.research.stlouisfed.org/2019/09/new-to-fred-international-data-on-refugee-and-migrant-populations/

Cool graphics on global migration flows from Bloomberg

Bloomberg News has some very nifty graphics on global migration flows, created using UN data: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-how-migration-is-changing-our-world

It's particularly interesting to see how large the flows are within Europe