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short readsAug 31, 2016

Migrant remittances worldwide drop in 2015 for first time since Great Recession

Worldwide, an estimated $582 billion was sent by migrants to relatives in their home countries in 2015, a 2% decline from 2014.
reportAug 2, 2016

References

Connor, Phillip and Jens Manuel Krogstad. 2016. “Europe sees rise in unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, with almost half from Afghanistan.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, May. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/05/10/eu-unaccompanied-minors/ Connor, Phillip and Jens Manuel Krogstad. 2016. “About six-in-ten Syrians are now displaced from their homes.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, June. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/06/13/about-six-in-ten-syrians-are-now-displaced-from-their-homes/ Connor, Phillip and Jens Manuel […]
reportJul 11, 2016

2. Negative views of minorities, refugees common in EU

Europe has long been a leading destination for the world’s migrants. In recent years, the number of people migrating to Europe has increased dramatically, owing especially to ongoing conflict in the Middle East. In 2015 alone, more than 1 million asylum seekers applied for refugee status in the European Union. The majority of these asylum […]
reportSep 19, 2016

1. How is India doing?

A growing number of Indians, roughly two-thirds (65%), are satisfied with the way things are going in their country. Such satisfaction is up 9 percentage points since 2015 and 29 points since 2014, in a survey taken before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. In 2013, the last year of […]
reportJul 11, 2016

Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs

The refugee crisis and the threat of terrorism are very much related in the minds of many Europeans. Across the EU there are also sharp ideological divides on views about minorities, diversity and national identity.
reportSep 20, 2016

Methodology

Overview The estimates presented in this report for the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population are based on a residual estimation methodology that compares a demographic estimate of the number of immigrants residing legally in the country with the total number of immigrants as measured by a survey – either the American Community Survey or the March […]
reportApr 11, 2017

Methodology

This is the eighth time Pew Research Center has measured restrictions on religion around the globe.[49. numoffset=”49″ See Methodology of Pew Research Center’s 2009 report “Global Restrictions on Religion” for a discussion of the conceptual basis for measuring restrictions on religion.] This report, which includes data for the year ending Dec. 31, 2015, generally follows […]
reportAug 2, 2016

3. Europe’s asylum seeker flows: Uneven dispersion across Europe

Asylum seekers make their way to Europe in fits and starts, by direct as well as indirect routes, by air, land and sea. Consequently, it is difficult to trace the precise paths taken by thousands of asylum seekers. However, by pairing the country where a migrant is seeking asylum with the country that same migrant […]
reportJul 22, 2016

The Immigration Crisis Is Tearing Europe Apart

Fear of terrorism, Muslims, and refugees is driving the parties of the right and left further apart than ever before.
reportJun 13, 2016

1. Europeans see ISIS, climate change as most serious threats

Among the myriad threats that Europe faces in 2016, the scourge of ISIS registers most strongly. In fact, ISIS is either tied or seen as the greatest threat in nine of the 10 European countries surveyed. But it is not the only high-profile threat felt in Europe. More than half in all European countries surveyed […]