C4D and Migration

Today, there are over 258 million migrants around the world living outside their country of birth. This figure is expected to grow for a number of reasons including population growth, increasing connectivity, trade, rising inequality, demographic imbalances and climate change. Migration provides immense opportunity and benefits – for the migrants, host communities and communities of origin. However, when poorly regulated it can create significant challenges. These challenges include overwhelming social infrastructures with the unexpected arrival of large numbers of people and the deaths of migrants undertaking dangerous journeys. (The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, UN Agreement)

Our C4D & Migration section takes a more in-depth look at migration issues and considers the role of Communication for Development (C4D) as an area of development practice – from the role of SBCC campaigns to the representation of migrant children in the European media.

Latest C4D and Migration Resources and News

Audience responses to migration stories: Voices of African migrants (International Media Support and University of Leicester, 2018)

This report was commissioned to examine the nature and quality of media stories produced by journalists supported by the Voices ...
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Dignity and humanitarian action in displacement (ODI report, 2019)

This report draws on the findings of a two-year HPG research project on ‘Dignity in displacement: from rhetoric to reality’ ...
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Participatory Mapping Toolkit: A Guide For Refugee Contexts ( Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, 2018)

This practical How-To Guide contains three separate sections. Section One: The Power of Participatory Mapping explains how these methods are ...
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IOM X free online resources designed to engage audiences about human trafficking and exploitation and build a C4D Campaign (2019)

IOM X is the International Organization for Migration (IOM)'s campaign to encourage safe migration and public action to stop exploitation ...
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Evaluating the impact of information campaigns in the field of migration: A systematic review of the evidence, and practical guidance ( Central Mediterranean Route Thematic Report Series, International Organization for Migration, 2018)

“Evaluating the impact of information campaigns in the field of migration: A systematic review of the evidence, a practical guidance” ...
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When Facts Don’t Matter: How to Communicate More Effectively about Immigration’s Costs and Benefits (Migration Policy Institute, 2018)

At a time when people have more information at their fingertips than ever, it feels as though it has become ...
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Anti-refugee Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of Soldiers of Odin (Social Media + Society article, 2018)

Article abstract: In the wake of the international refugee crisis, racist attitudes are becoming more publicly evident across the European Union ...
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