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Comparative Demographic Analysis of Forced and Refugee Migrations: An Illustrative Note

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The world has experienced large movements, both voluntary and forced, within and outside the continents. Forced migrations originating from some of the countries in Africa and Asia have contributed significantly to the global scale and complexity of international population movements. This chapter illustrates comparative demographic analyses in relationship to the levels and patterns of forced migration in Africa within the context of social demographic perspectives and data sources on migration. Critical consideration is given to the implications for the priorities for demographic research and training on forced and refugees migrations, to the systematic generation and use of data on all stages of the forced migration, and to the importance of dialogue between demographers and forced migration scholars.

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    The Population Statistics Database does not currently accommodate regional analysis by defining regional groupings of countries as in the Global Trends reports and annexes tables and spreadsheets. This addition will serve in the analysis of the population geographical analysis of groups of forced migrants and refugees

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  1. Department of Demography, University of Tehran and National Institute of Population Research, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi

  2. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Program, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 13346, USA

    Ellen Percy Kraly

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    Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi

  3. Geography and Environmental Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA

    Ellen Percy Kraly

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Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Kraly, E.P. (2018). Comparative Demographic Analysis of Forced and Refugee Migrations: An Illustrative Note. In: Hugo, G., Abbasi-Shavazi, M., Kraly, E. (eds) Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration. International Studies in Population, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67147-5_4

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