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

Pew mini-course on US immigration

The Pew Research Center has a mini-course on US immigration that is a great entryway for students to learn about patterns and trends in US immigration. Sign up to get access at https://mailchi.mp/pewresearch.org/u-s-immigration-mini-course

Pew is also a fabulous resource for students and researchers looking for unbiased, factual information about US immigration, particularly Hispanic immigration

Map of immigrant origins and destinations

The Pew Research Center has put out a a great map of the origins and destinations of the world's immigrants in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015. The map is based on UN data on migrant stocks.

Great visual of origins of US immigrants since 1820

This map shows the origins of US immigrants since 1820--very cool! The recent drop in the number of immigrants from Mexico is particularly interesting. Note that these are data on legal entrants (new legal permanent residents), not all in-migrants.

Great video about immigrants in Utica, NY

Chapter 14 profiles Utica, NY, an old industrial town that has been revitalized as a result of receiving large numbers of immigrants. PBS NewsHour did a great segment on the town.