Germany - The UN Migration Agency’s (IOM) Data Analysis Centre has launched an online video series called Talking Migration Data, which features prominent migration and data experts, and officials explaining key migration trends around the world.
Three videos have been published on the website of the Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) and at least six others are in production. The topics include unauthorized immigration to the United States, how to measure irregular migration flows, the Global Compact on Migration, how to improve data collection, and future labour migration trends.
In the first video of the series, Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer at the Pew Research Center in Washington DC, talks about dwindling numbers of migrants from Mexico into the United States. 
“It is lower than it has been in the last 20 years,” said Passel. “That’s due to the lack of jobs, and enforcement at the border has made it more expensive and more difficult for Mexicans to come to the United States.”
Additional experts featured in the Talking Migration Data series include:
Kathleen Newland, Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Franck Düvell, Associate Professor, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University
Michelle Levoy, Director, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
Philip Martin, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis
Nando Sigona, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham.
The Talking Migration Data series will also be part of a new Global Migration Data Portal to be officially launched in the autumn of 2017. 
For further information, please contact Stylia Kampani, IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre; Tel.: +49 (0) 3027877816, Email: skampani@iom.int