The Migration Observatory

International Students
Non-European Student Migration to the UK
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Selecting the Best and Brightest
How does the UK attract and select highly skilled migrant workers?
New policy primer interview
Who counts as a migrant?
Definitions and their consequences
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Thinking behind the numbers
Understanding Public Opinion on Immigration in Britain
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Population
How big is too big?
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Off Target
Government policies are not on track to reduce net-migration to the tens of thousands by 2015
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Top ten report
The top ten problems with information about migration in the UK
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COMPAS
The Migration Observatory is a project of Oxford University's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
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News and commentary

A magnet for migrants? How does the UK’s migrant population growth compare with that in other high-income countries?

13th April

As the global population has increased considerably in the last two decades, so too has the number of international migrants - which increased from 156 million in 1990 to 214...

@Migobs tweets

RT @PAHomeAffairs: Flying home illegal immigrants has cost taxpayers nearly £134 million in the past five years, the Home Office says (v ...

18 hours 58 min ago.
RT @PAHomeAffairs: The UK Border Agency’s visa computer systems are “prone to falling over” and it will not be a quick fix, chief execut ...

20 hours 46 min ago.
@AlpMehm many thanks. It'll be an interesting debate. We did some stuff on population size last summer: t.co/uw8yuTif

22 hours 43 sec ago.