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Blogging for International Migrants Day

Sussex academics blogged and tweeted during International Migrants Day on Wednesday (18 December) to highlight the work of Sussex’s two world-renowned research centres in the field of migration.

Sussex PhD students carry out fieldwork interviews and surveys in Bangladesh about migration.

The School of Global Studies at the University is home to:

• the Migrating out of Poverty research consortium, a seven-year initiative funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), which addresses internal and south-south migration and its links to development
• the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), which focuses on international and south-north migration

Researchers working in the two centres updated a dedicated web page, blogged, linked to press articles and tweeted about their work in Africa and Asia to showcase its relevance to the experiences of migrants around the world.

You can read their blogs on the Migrating out of Poverty blog site.

International Migrants Day was first established in 2000 by the UN General Assembly, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world.

The total number of international migrants has increased from an estimated 175 million in 2000 to 232 million persons today and the number of internal migrants is estimated to be at least 740 million.