EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Map for city migration now on-line

Map for city migration now on-line

04-04-2007

Which cities around the world attract most immigrants? The Global City Migration Map Tool provides an easy-to-understand visual of immigrants’ urban destinations. It is freely available on-line. The map tool is developed by the Migration Policy Information Data Hub and the project leaders of the ‘Globalization, Urbanization and Migration’ (GUM) project at the George Washington University.

The tool consist of four maps, showing respectively the global metropolitan areas with

1 million or more immigrants
500,000 or more immigrants
100,000 or more immigrants
immigrants accounting for more than 25 per cent of the area’s total population

The first map, which shows the eighteen cities with more than 1 million immigrants, is interactive. By clicking on one of the cities, a fact sheet is generated with the number and the share of foreign-born residents in the city, the top countries of origin, and a list of further resources.

For urban-level data on immigration in other cities, the GUM project website is a unique and reliable source. GUM collects and hosts data on the foreign born in over 150 metropolitan areas in more than 50 countries. The GUM database is also freely accessible on-line. Scholars and policy makers are invited to contribute their work and urban-level data to GUM to better inform policy discussions and research on urban-level immigration.

Source: Migration Policy Institute

Links
Global City Migration Map GUM project website

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