Data Sources for Measuring Forced Displacement

Slides from a presentation given by Khassoum Diallo of the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Refugees, at a regional workshop on "strengthening national capacities to improve migration data", Bishkek – 15-17 February 2010. Other papers from the workshop (in both English and Russian) can be found on the meeting website at http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2010.02.migration.html.

The presentation is structured as follows:

• Context: migration asylum nexus
• Refugees: a component of international migration
• UNHCR mandate on reporting refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons
• Scope of forced displacement
• Data sources for measuring forced displacement
• Focus on administrative sources
• Challenges and opportunities.