Travelling to Europe via mixed migration routes: IOM and academic experience in building evidence on irregular migrant flows and stocks to understand migrants’ journeys, vulnerabilities and needs

Jun 16, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Ground Floor & Floors 3-5, Niagra Building

Description

This parallel session will explore how international organizations and academia play a role in the production of timely and accurate statistics on irregular migration flows and stocks, with a focus on European countries. Featuring insights from IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix and Missing Migrants Project, the EU-funded MIRREM research, and UNODC, the speakers will discuss how data initiatives pushed forward for different programming and research purposes can enable more informed programmatic responses, by providing critical evidence to craft humane and effective migration policies. They will discuss how robust, timely data can support updating migrants’ profiles, highlight main challenges and vulnerabilities faced by those who travel irregularly, and counter misinformation. Moderator: Ivona Zakoska-Todorovska, ECA Regional Migration Data & Research Officer, IOM Speakers: - Laura Bartolini, Operations Support & Analysis Coordinator, IOM - Claire Healy, Research Officer, UNODC - Alejandra Rodriguez-Sanchez, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Potsdam - Julia Black, Project Officer, Coordinator of Missing Migrant Project, IOM