World Migration Report 2022: Chapter 1 - Report Overview: Technological, geopolitical and environmental transformations shaping our migration and mobility futures

International migration is a complex phenomenon that touches on a multiplicity of economic, social and security aspects all around the world. In this overview chapter of IOM’s flagship publication, the World Migration Report 2022, readers will be able to access key trends, data and information at a glance. More than just an executive summary of the report, the overview chapter links the strategic “bigger picture” on migration and displacement dynamics to broader global transformations occurring around the world, especially as they related to technological, geopolitical and environmental change.

The World Migration Report 2022 seeks to use the body of available data, research and analysis on migration to help build the evidence base on some of the most important and pressing global migration issues of our time, including on COVID-19 impacts on migration and mobility. By their very nature, the complex dynamics of global migration can never be fully measured, understood and regulated. However, as this report shows, we do have a continuously growing and improving body of data and information that can help us “make better sense” of the key features of migration in increasingly uncertain times. For information on migration trends and issues globally, the World Migration Report (WMR) 2022 is an authoritative reference like no other.